http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The word intuition is derived from the Latin intueor – to see; intuition is thus often invoked to explain how the mind can "see" answers to problems or decisions in the absence of explicit reasoning – a "gut reaction". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-intuition.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 03 May 2013 08:33:08 EST news286788717 The largest trial into the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in the UK in more than 30 years will look into how the use of the Class C drug ketamine might reduce the side effects of ECT for those being treated for severe depression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-therapeutic-benefits-ketamine.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 01 May 2013 08:59:08 EST news286617532 Since the early 1970s school shootings at American elementary, secondary and higher education institutions have been a painful reality for American society. After each incident – like the recent attack in Newtown, CT – there is voluminous dialogue about what can be done to prevent the next, such tragedy. But can anything realistically be done to prevent these horrific crimes? A new article¹ by Dr. Daniel J. Flannery at Case Western Reserve University, and colleagues, scheduled to appear in the January issue of Springer's Current Psychiatry Reports, attempts to parse out what we have learned from past events, and what we can do about stopping the next attack. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-school.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:17:58 EST news275152670 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System have found that deficiencies in the neural processing of simple auditory tones can evolve into a cascade of dysfunctional information processing across wide swaths of the brain in patients with schizophrenia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-schizophrenia-patients-auditory-cues-bigger.html Neuroscience Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:02:00 EST news273513710 (Medical Xpress)—Doctors in Canada claim they have opened a communication channel, using fMRI, with a man assumed to be in a vegetative state for over twelve years. By asking the patient to envision two different types of mental exercises and assigning a value of yes or no respectively to each, while undergoing a brain scan, they believe car accident patient Scott Routley has informed them that he is not experiencing any pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-doctors-assumed-vegetative-state-fmri.html Neuroscience Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:40:02 EST news272098095 Leslie Henderson investigates the cellular basis for behavioral changes seen with the abuse of anabolic androgenic steroids. In her laboratory work, Henderson has looked at three major behavioral systems typically associated with steroid abuse -- reproduction, aggression in males, and anxiety in both sexes. Studies have shown there are "critical periods" -- periods of time during adolescence when exposure to steroids can impose permanent changes in both brain organization and function. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-scientific-side-steroid-abuse.html Addiction Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:52:46 EST news263487154 In the current online issue of PLoS ONE, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say they have identified a set of laboratory-based biomarkers that can be useful for understanding brain-based abnormalities in schizophrenia. The measurements, known as endophenotypes, could ultimately be a boon to clinicians who sometimes struggle to recognize and treat the complex and confounding mental disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-biomarkers-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:30:54 EST news261232247 New research from the University of Missouri indicates that at 10 months, babies start to understand another person's thought process, providing new insights on how humans acquire knowledge and how communication develops. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-babies-thought-months.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:53:54 EST news239367220 In a breakthrough, researchers at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA, Japan) demonstrate for the first time the key features in the neuroscience and psychology of memory by a AgS2 synapse. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-atomic-nano-switches-emulate-human-memory.html Medical research Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:16:28 EST news235311377