February 3, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Increasing numbers of children and adolescents are being given antipsychotic drugs in Germany, as Christian Bachmann and colleagues found out in a study published in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2014; 111(3…
February 2, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Various regions of the brain often work independently. But what happens when two regions must cooperate to accomplish a task? What mechanism allows them to communicate in order to cooperate, yet avoid interfering with one another when they work alone? …
February 2, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Scientists have identified, for the first time, a way in which the decreased functional connectivity seen in the brain of many people with autism can come about: it can be caused by cells called microglia failing to trim connections between neurons, re…
February 2, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Infants as young as six months old tend to expect that plants are food sources, but only after an adult shows them that the food is safe to eat, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychologica…
February 1, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Many of us have woken up in a sweat in the middle of the night as a result of a nightmare. And those are the dreams that tend to stick with us. Now, new research suggests that nightmares are more likely to impact us emotionally through feelings of sadn…
January 31, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Researchers have shown that retrieval practice can improve memory in individuals with severe traumatic brain injury. Despite the small sample size, it was clear that retrieval practice was superior to other learning strategies in this group of memory-i…
January 31, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest — a 42 percent increase on average. The study offers a scientific explanation for the most typical characteristic of autism — withdrawal into one’s own inner wo…
January 31, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Motor commands issued by the brain to activate arm muscles take two different routes. As a research group has now discovered, many neurons in the spinal cord send their instructions not only towards the musculature, but at the same time also back to th…
January 31, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
A review of 125 research studies in the last ten years strongly supports the hypothesis that early trauma in childhood (including abuse and neglect) can effect brain development in ways that increase the probability of developing psychosis later in life.
January 31, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
With plummeting hormone levels, natural menopause before age 40 can put a damper on women’s mental well being and quality of life. But bringing testosterone back up to normal may not bring them the boost some hoped for, found a new study published onli…
