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Transcendental Meditation may reduce PTSD symptoms, medication use in active-duty personnel

Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation enables some active duty service members battling post-traumatic stress disorder to reduce or even eliminate their psychotropic medication and get better control of their often-debilitating symptoms, resear…

Transcendental Meditation may reduce PTSD symptoms, medication use in active-duty personnel

Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation enables some active duty service members battling post-traumatic stress disorder to reduce or even eliminate their psychotropic medication and get…

Study demonstrates that consuming a unique carbohydrate complex during early life could provide benefits for brain health that extend into adulthood

Clasado Biosciences Limited, the producers and suppliers of Bimuno® (B-GOS), a unique patented trans-galactooligosaccharide complex, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, has…

Turning on the thyroid

January 11, 2016 by - No Comment

Turning on the thyroid

Thyroid disease affects about 12 percent of the U.S. population. While many people with thyroid disease don’t even know they have it, an overactive or underactive thyroid can cause a slew of…

Postnatal depression linked to challenges in parenting — could Oxytocin be helpful?

Caring for an infant is challenging for any mother — but especially so for women with postnatal depression, which may lead to adverse effects on child outcomes.

Economic uncertainty drives employees to drink outside of work

During economic downturns, employees reduce their alcohol intake at work but increase their intake outside of work, according to the results of a new study.

‘Free will’ investigated using mind-reading computer

The fight between free will and determinism is almost as old as philosophy itself. Modern neuroscience techniques are now putting some meat on the bone.

Zoning out or deep thinking?

Everyone has at least a few non-negotiable values. These are the things that, no matter what the circumstance, you’d never compromise for any reason – such as “I’d never hurt a child,” or “I’m…

Valuing your time more than money is linked to happiness

Valuing your time more than the pursuit of money is linked to greater happiness, according to new research published by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Cellular ‘switch’ helps brain distinguish safety from danger, new study finds

Researchers at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified a cellular…