October 21, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Developing invisible implantable medical sensor arrays, a team of engineers has overcome a major technological hurdle in researchers’ efforts to understand the brain. The team has now described its technology, which has applications in fields ranging…
October 21, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Preexisting differences in the sensitivity of a key part of each individual’s immune system to stress confer a greater risk of developing stress-related depression or anxiety, scientists report. Inflammation is the immune system’s response to infecti…
October 20, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Physical exercise in old age can improve brain perfusion as well as certain memory skills, say neuroscientists who studied men and women aged between 60 and 77. In younger individuals regular training on a treadmill tended to improve cerebral blood flo…
October 20, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Will that be a pizza for you or will you go for a salad? Choosing what you eat is not simply a matter of taste, conclude scientists in a new study. As you glance over a menu or peruse the shelves in a supermarket, your brain is making decisions based m…
October 20, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Our risk of developing mood disorders in adulthood may be influenced by the season during which we were born, according to new research.
October 20, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
As you think about how a food will taste and whether it’s nutritious, an internal calorie counter of sorts is also evaluating each food based on its caloric density, according to findings from a new neuroimaging study.
October 20, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
A drug being studied as a fast-acting mood-lifter restored pleasure-seeking behavior independent of — and ahead of — its other antidepressant effects. Within 40 minutes after a single infusion of ketamine, treatment-resistant depressed bipolar disord…
October 20, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Techniques are being developed to deliver correctly and effectively certain drugs to treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Both disorders affect the neurones: their structure and function is lost, and this in turn leads to the deterioration in the patient…
October 20, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to reduce the brain damage caused by head injuries — stopping the body’s immune system from killing brain cells. A new study showed that in experiments on mice, an immune-based treatment reduced the size of b…
October 20, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Up to half of patients who suffer from major depression do not respond to treatment with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. Now a group of researchers has carried out a study that shows that increasing fatty fish intake appears to increase the re…
