March 11, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Factors that influence the health of our blood vessels, such as smoking, high blood and pulse pressures, obesity and diabetes, are linked to less healthy brains. The strongest links are with areas of the brain known to be responsible for our more compl…
March 8, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
What changes in the brain are caused by Alzheimer’s disease? How do these changes differ from those observed in the normal ageing process? Researchers explored these questions by analyzing over 4,000 MRI scans of healthy and diseased brains using the ‘…
March 8, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Federal regulators have approved the use of the new prescription nasal spray drug esketamine for depression that has not responded to other treatments.
March 8, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
A study has used eye-tracking techniques to analyze the processes of selective attention that determine the way in which we explore and interact with our environment. Researchers studied the movements of the eyes when observing different decorative pat…
March 8, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research examines whether having a history of mental health issues influences a person’s outlook after they receive a cancer diagnosis.
March 7, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Oxytocin has been the focus of intense research around autism spectrum disorder (ASD) due to the hormone’s reported positive effects on anxiety, empathy, social interaction, and maternal behavior. ASD is characterized by early onset of behavioral and c…
March 7, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new study using multiple imaging modalities shows that learning scientific information results in changes in the actual structure of memory-related areas of the brain, changes due to the encoding of the new information in these memory-related brain a…
March 7, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
When at least one partner within a married couple had the GG oxytocin gene receptor variant, the spouses reported greater feelings of marital satisfaction and security.
March 7, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Risks for autism and depression are higher if one’s mother was in hospital with an infection during pregnancy. This is shown by a major Swedish observational study of nearly 1.8 million children.
March 7, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Scientists improved the initial steps of a standard protocol and produced organoids displaying regionalized brain structures, including retinal pigmented cells.
