Psychology & Psychiatry
Prenatal stress could affect baby's brain, say researchers
New research from King's College London has found that maternal stress before and during pregnancy could affect a baby's brain development.
Oct 8, 2019
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Biological Psychiatry
Psychology & Psychiatry
New medication may be able to improve effects of psychological treatment for PTSD
A medication that boosts the body's own cannabis-like substances, endocannabinoids, shows promise to help the brain un-learn fear memories when these are no longer meaningful. These results, obtained in an early-stage, experimental ...
Aug 29, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study uses real-time fMRI to treat Tourette Syndrome
Characterized by repetitive movements or vocalizations known as tics, Tourette Syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder that plagues many adolescents. A study conducted by Yale researchers has trained adolescents with Tourette ...
Aug 21, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Risk of psychotic disorders has disease-specific brain effects
Brain abnormalities in people at familial risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder emerge in unique patterns, despite the symptom and genetic overlap of the disorders, according to a study in Biological Psychiatry. Similarities ...
Aug 20, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain molecule identified as key in anxiety model
Boosting a single molecule in the brain can change "dispositional anxiety," the tendency to perceive many situations as threatening, in nonhuman primates, researchers from the University of California, Davis, and the University ...
Aug 14, 2019
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Medications
Kappa opioid receptor influences naltrexone's effects on drinking alcohol
Researchers at Yale University have identified how naltrexone, a medication used to treat alcohol use disorder, reduces craving and consumption in heavy drinkers. The findings appear in Biological Psychiatry published by ...
Aug 6, 2019
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Genetics
Researchers find targeted treatment that reduces symptoms of psychosis
Treatment for individuals who experience psychosis, such as hallucinations and delusions as a result of a psychiatric illness, can be targeted to a specific structural mutation, according to a study published by researchers ...
Jul 3, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers discover potential new therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease
Apolipoproten E (apoeE) is a major genetic risk factor for the development of Alzheimer's disease, yet the protein tends to be understudied as a potential druggable target for the mind-robbing neurodegenerative disease.
Jun 12, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A new molecular mechanism could explain the origins of the depressive symptoms in Huntington's disease
About 40 percent of the affected patients with Huntington's disease—a neurodegenerative pathology- show depression symptoms, even in early stages before the apparition of the typical motor symptoms of the disease. An altered ...
May 31, 2019
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Genetics
Genome-wide association study identifies new risk loci for harmful alcohol use
A genome-wide association study has identified five new genetic risk loci that can pass on risk for harmful alcohol use from parents to children, and confirmed one previously identified risk locus. The findings were published ...
May 28, 2019
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