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By studying specially bred mice with specific developmental and cognitive traits resembling those seen in schizophrenia, researchers have provided new evidence that abnormal rhythmic activity in particular brain cells contributes to problems with learn…
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Did you know that our body produces its own marijuana-like compound to protect us against anxiety? A study reveals a new biological pathway that regulates this system and suggests that a drug currently in clinical trials to treat obesity might also pro…
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Kick starting a process that might repair the damage done in cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis could begin with disabling a driver that helps block regeneration, say researchers.
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Exposure during pregnancy to a combination of fire retardant chemicals and phthalate chemicals — both present in the average home — can contribute to autistic-like behaviors in the offspring, according to an animal study.
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Prenatal exposure to low doses of the environmental contaminants polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, change the developing brain in an area involved in metabolism, and some effects are apparent even two generations later, a new study finds. Hereditary …
Older brains may be more similar to younger brains than previously thought. In…
Four experiments were conducted to examine the effect of responding to self-report items…
BSSR Lecture Series As part of the BSSR Lecture Series organized by the National…
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Researchers at the ULB – IRIBHM and ULB Neuroscience Institute – have tested the therapeutic potential of cortical neurons generated at the laboratory, by transplantation in the brains of adult mice. Their research is published in the journal Neuron1.
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Highly anxious people have more trouble deciding how best to handle life’s uncertainties.
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The Critical Care Recovery Center care model — the nation’s first collaborative care concept focusing on the extensive cognitive, physical and psychological recovery needs of intensive care unit…
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Penn Medicine researchers found that patients who did not respond to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety in childhood had more chronic and enduring patterns of suicidal ideation at 7 to 19…
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A new study has found that people are quicker to categorize a face as being male when it is shown to the left side of the brain.
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Innately, we pull our hand away when we touch a hot pan on the stove, but little is known about how our brain processes temperature information. Scientists now have discovered how a fruit fly’s brain represents temperature, mapping it neuron by neuron,…
