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Many patients with functional dizziness look back on a long odyssey to numerous doctors, because no organic causes could be found. Now for the first time, an experiment has identified possible causes of the disorder: problems with the processing of sen…
August 1, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Researchers have used super-resolution microscopy to observe key molecules at work inside living brain cells, further unraveling the puzzle of memory formation and the elusive causes of dementia.
August 1, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Play contact sports for any length of time and at one point or another you’re probably going to have your ‘bell rung’ by a powerful blow to the head from a hard hit or fall. Researchers have reconstructed ting the inertial stresses and strains that pre…
August 1, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Skin picking involves consistently picking, pulling, or tearing healthy skin. It is a psychological symptom in many cases. Treatment includes therapy and medication. Learn more here.
July 31, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Researchers have made it possible to learn how key human brain cells respond to Alzheimer’s, vaulting a major obstacle in the quest to understand and one day vanquish it. By developing a way for human brain immune cells known as microglia to grow and f…
July 31, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Researchers have identified characteristic changes in the patterns of electrical brain wave activity in motor neurone disease (MND). This ground breaking observation will help to develop treatments for the disease that affects over 350 people in Irelan…
July 31, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Ketamine has gotten a bad rap as an opioid when there’s plenty of evidence suggesting it isn’t one, experts say. They believe this reputation may hamper patients from getting necessary treatment for the kinds of depression that don’t respond to typical…
July 31, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired. This was shown by neuroscientists using magnetic resonance imaging.
July 31, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research finds that dishonest acts impair ‘interpersonal cognition,’ or the empathic ability to accurately tell what another person is feeling.
July 30, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Working with mouse and human tissue, researchers report new evidence that a protein pumped out of some — but not all — populations of ‘helper’ cells in the brain, called astrocytes, plays a specific role in directing the formation of connections amon…
