Psychology & Psychiatry
High-fat diet alters behavior and produces signs of brain inflammation
Can the consumption of fatty foods change your behavior and your brain?
Mar 26, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Influencing craving for cigarettes by stimulating the brain
Targeted brain stimulation increases cigarette cravings, a new study in Biological Psychiatry has found, which may ultimately lead to new treatments that reverse these effects. Cues associated with cigarette smoking, such ...
Oct 31, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Inflammation attacks brain's reward center
A new study by Neil Harrison and colleagues published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that a brain reward center, the striatum, may be directly affected by inflammation and that striatal change is related to the emergence ...
Feb 2, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Laughing gas studied as depression treatment
Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, has shown early promise as a potential treatment for severe depression in patients whose symptoms don't respond to standard therapies. The pilot study, at Washington University School of Medicine ...
Dec 9, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Good ruminations or bad ruminations in the depressed brain?
All of us, at times, ruminate or brood on a problem in order to make the best possible decision in a complex situation. But sometimes, rumination becomes unproductive or even detrimental to making good life choices. Such ...
Aug 22, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The secret to successful aging
Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...
Jul 14, 2011
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Attention deficit disorders
How do ADHD medications work?
There is a swirling controversy regarding the suspicion that medications prescribed for the treatment of ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) primarily act to control disruptive behavior as opposed to having primary ...
Oct 16, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
In schizophrenia research, a path to the brain through the nose
A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. Recent advances in basic cellular neuroscience ...
Jan 25, 2012
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Autism spectrum disorders
Speech disrupts facial attention in six-month-olds who later develop autism
From birth, infants naturally show a preference for human contact and interaction, including faces and voices. These basic predispositions to social stimuli are altered in individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders ...
Feb 4, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain receptor acts as switch for OCD symptoms in mice
A single chemical receptor in the brain is responsible for a range of symptoms in mice that are reminiscent of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a Duke University study that appears online in the journal Biological ...
Jul 15, 2016
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