Pound for pound, the brain consumes vastly more energy than other organs, and, puzzlingly, it remains a fuel-guzzler even when its neurons are not firing signals called neurotransmitters to each other. Now researchers at ...
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In a first study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the University of the Balearic Islands analyzed the development of research on statistical reasoning from a historical perspective. In ...
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New details reported in Science Translational Medicine by a team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center shed light on how current antidepressant drugs work and suggest a new drug target in depression.
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Epilepsy, a chronic brain disorder that causes seizures, affects around 50 million people worldwide.
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The brain is indeed a target for treating ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered. This flips a long-standing belief that the disease starts in the spinal motor neurons and any ...
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Human beings, like most mammals, need social interactions to live and develop. The processes that drive them toward each other require decision making whose brain machinery is largely misunderstood. To decipher this phenomenon, ...
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(HealthDay)—A diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) might worry an older adult, who could see it as a stepping stone to dementia. But a new study suggests one does not necessarily lead to the other.
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New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has suggested that using neurofeedback to address self-blame in people experiencing non-anxious major depressive disorder ...
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Neurotransmitters play a key role in the signal transmission process between neurons in the brain. If the concentration of neurotransmitters is higher or lower than normal, it triggers brain diseases for which neurotransmitters ...
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Sleeping people respond to both wind farm noise and road traffic noise, but not usually enough to wake them up, according to new Flinders University research.
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