Medications
How do stimulants actually work to reduce ADHD symptoms?
Stimulants are first-line drugs for children and adults diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But how do they actually work?
Oct 27, 2023
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News tagged with brain disorders
Genetics
Researchers identify key genes in the development of the primate brain
The development of the brain requires an elaborate, tightly organized chain of events that are jumpstarted by neural stem cells, which give rise to increasingly specialized cells that carry out all brain functions. But what ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Neuroscience
How our brain deconstructs a world in constant motion
It's a miracle that people aren't constantly getting into car accidents.
Oct 25, 2023
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Medications
How antidepressants, ketamine and psychedelic drugs may make brains more flexible—new research
The first-line pharmacological treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD) are antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs). But a significant proportion of people don't respond to these ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New clues to early development of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disease that remains poorly understood and treated. Schizophrenia onset is typically in adolescence or early adulthood, but its underlying causes are thought to involve neurodevelopmental ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Could brain mapping transform how we predict and treat psychosis?
Psychotic disorders affect around one in 100 people globally and are among the most severe mental health problems.
Oct 23, 2023
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Neuroscience
Researchers use pioneering new method to unlock brain's noradrenaline system
An international team of researchers has provided valuable insights into the brain's noradrenaline (NA) system, which has been a longtime target for medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Molecular pathology of suicide: A postmortem study
What changes in the brains of people who commit or think about committing suicide? Ph.D. candidate Lin Zhang investigated at a molecular level the processes that take place in the human brain during suicide. The hope is that ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain connectivity found to be disrupted in schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, a neurodevelopmental disorder that features psychosis among its symptoms, is thought to arise from disorganization in brain connectivity and functional integration. Now, a recent study in Biological Psychiatry: ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Neuroscience
Retraining the brain for better vision
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from a vision condition called amblyopia, or lazy eye, with imbalanced vision in their two eyes. Unless this disabling condition is caught and treated at a young age, it's rare ...
Oct 17, 2023
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