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International study explores the good, the bad and not-so ugly of hallucinations

Hallucinations can be a terrifying part of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia.

Neurobiological changes explain how mindfulness meditation improves health

Over the past decade, mindfulness meditation has been shown to improve a broad range of health and disease outcomes, such as slowing HIV progression and improving healthy aging.

New non-invasive form of vagus nerve stimulation works to treat depression

Depression can be a devastating and unremitting problem.Researchers of a new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry report successful reduction of depressive symptoms in…

Early poverty disrupts link between hunger and eating

How much you eat when you’re not really hungry may depend on how well off your family was when you were a child, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the…

Scientists find brain plasticity assorted into functional networks

Scientists had thought that most synapses of a similar type and in a similar location in the brain behaved in a similar fashion with respect to how experience induces plasticity. In this work, scientists found dramatic differences in the plasticity res…

Scientists find brain plasticity assorted into functional networks

Scientists had thought that most synapses of a similar type and in a similar location in the brain behaved in a similar fashion with respect to how experience induces plasticity. In this work, scientists found dramatic differences in the plasticity res…

Researchers home in on why female newborns are better protected from brain injury

In a new study, researchers show that a particular protein found in the brains of both male and female mice is present at higher levels in females, which offers them stronger protection against one type of brain injury.

Researchers home in on why female newborns are better protected from brain injury

In a new study, researchers show that a particular protein found in the brains of both male and female mice is present at higher levels in females, which offers them stronger protection against one type of brain injury.

Mesh-like scaffold is disordered in Alzheimer’s-affected cells

A new finding offers a fresh insight into one of the earliest biological events of Alzheimer’s disease and is expected to open new avenues of study.

Mesh-like scaffold is disordered in Alzheimer’s-affected cells

A new finding offers a fresh insight into one of the earliest biological events of Alzheimer’s disease and is expected to open new avenues of study.