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A report published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics analyzes the link between impulsivity and binge eating in obese subjects.

Watching cartoons can reduce pain and distress in children undergoing immunisation before, during and after the procedure, a study in Italy has found.

Low self-esteem also identified as a risk factorResearchers have identified two seemingly unrelated but strong predictors of obesity: having low self-esteem related to one’s weight and keeping…

Neuroscientists have discovered brain circuitry for encoding positive and negative learned associations in mice. After finding that two circuits showed opposite activity following fear and reward learning, the researchers proved that this divergent act…

The brain function of people addicted to cocaine is different from that of people who are not addicted, and is often linked to highly impulsive behavior, according to a new scientific study.

Patients with traumatic brain injuries are not benefiting from recent advances in cognitive neuroscience research — and they should be, scientists report. Now, cognitive neuroscientists have identified dozens of brain networks, each of which engages a…

When consumers taste cheap wine and rate it highly because they believe it is expensive, is it because prejudice has blinded them to the actual taste, or has prejudice actually changed their brain function, causing them to experience the cheap wine in …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is caused by immune cells that activate a cascade of chemicals in the brain, attacking and degrading the insulation that keeps neuronal signals moving. These chemicals, called cytokines, drive the inflammation in the brain, attr…

Because depression in brain cancer patients is a common but often overlooked condition, oncologists should regularly screen tumor patients for depression, according to a new article. The authors also propose that more studies be completed to explore th…

A controlled trial published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics reports on a new treatment modality for patients who do not response to standard therapy for panic.