After a traumatic experience, most people recover without incident, but some people—between 2% and 10%—develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition that can cause debilitating symptoms of anxiety ...
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University at Buffalo researchers have discovered how an active form of a gene present in 75% of the human population works to protect the brain against neurodegeneration.
Sep 19, 2023
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neurological disorder characterized by repeated behaviors such as cleaning and checking despite clear objective evidence of cleanliness, orderliness, and correctness. Although the ...
Sep 12, 2023
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In a groundbreaking review paper published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, scientists have shed new light on the role of GABA, a key signaling molecule in the brain.
Sep 5, 2023
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The same neurons that help bats navigate through space may also help them navigate collective social environments, finds a new study published today in the journal Nature.
Aug 30, 2023
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A trailblazing study conducted by researchers at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) in Tulsa, Okla., has made significant strides with a novel technique for treating anorexia nervosa (AN), an eating disorder ...
Aug 29, 2023
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The more we like our ideas, the faster we give them shape. But to be creative, we need to focus on out-of-the-box thinking. This is what Alizée Lopez-Persem and Emmanuelle Volle, Inserm researchers at Paris Brain Institute, ...
Aug 14, 2023
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When patients undergo general anesthesia, their brain activity often slows down as they sink into unconsciousness. Higher doses of anesthetic drugs can induce an even deeper state of unconsciousness known as burst suppression, ...
Jul 17, 2023
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A multi-institutional collaborative has developed a flexible electrocorticography film for simultaneous detection of multisensory information from multiple regions of the cerebral cortex by placing neural electrodes over ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Mania, in which mood and energy level are extremely elevated for at least a week, and hypomania, which is less severe and lasts at least four days, are the defining features of bipolar spectrum disorders (BSD) and can be ...
Jul 13, 2023
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