News tagged with pathological behaviors
Scientists pinpoint how deep brain stimulation eases OCD
(HealthDay)—Deep brain stimulation has helped people with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, and new research begins to explain why.
Neuroscience
Feb 24, 2013 |
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How the brain forms categories
Neurobiologists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna investigated how the brain is able to group external stimuli into stable categories. They found the answer in the discrete ...
Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2012 |
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Neuroscientists investigate lotteries to study how the brain evaluates risk
People are faced with thousands of choices every day, some inane and some risky. Scientists know that the areas of the brain that evaluate risk are the same for each person, but what makes the value assigned ...
Neuroscience
Sep 19, 2012 |
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Rejected Alzheimer's drug shows new potential
An international team of scientists led by researchers at Mount Sinai School Medicine have discovered that a drug that had previously yielded conflicting results in clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease effectively stopped ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 31, 2012 |
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