Medical research
Researchers find a gut-brain connection for social development
To learn to socialize, zebrafish need to trust their gut.
Nov 1, 2022
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Neuroscience
Pressure chamber therapy is effective in the functional improvement of autism, study finds
A new Tel Aviv University study succeeded in significantly improving social skills and the condition of the autistic brain through pressure chamber therapy. The study was conducted on animal models of autism. In it, the researchers ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
SSRIs and CBT lead to changes in brain
Neurochemical changes in the brain differ among patients with social anxiety treated using both SSRIs and CBT, compared to those treated using only CBT. While the combined treatment involving the medicine blocked the serotonin ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain's sensitivity to different types of regret may impact mood disorders like depression
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have learned that the way the brain processes the complex emotion of regret may be linked to an individual's ability to cope with stress, and altered in psychiatric ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Neuroscience
Can obesity and stress influence appetite? Study shows it's all in your head
In a series of experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity across networks in the brain, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers looked at how stress might increase appetite in obese ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Genetics
Neurodegeneration can be studied long before symptoms arise
Many changes take place in the brain long before symptoms appear. This has been shown in mice in two studies of prion diseases in which the brain gradually deteriorates. The results suggest that changes can be studied extremely ...
Oct 10, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study identifies a neural network supporting flexible learning and memory
People often need to adapt to unexpected and sudden events, such as a road construction or a road accident while driving, a broken automatic payment or ATM machine, and changes in weather. To effectively deal with these events, ...
Neuroscience
Super ager brains contain 'super neurons'
Neurons in an area of the brain responsible for memory (known as the entorhinal cortex) were significantly larger in super agers (80 years and older) compared to cognitively average peers, individuals with early-stage Alzheimer's ...
Sep 30, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
A window into the changing tumor microenvironment
Researchers led by Ludwig Lausanne's Anoek Zomer, Davide Croci and Johanna Joyce described in a June publication in iScience their development of a multimodal imaging platform to explore, over extended periods, the changing ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Neuroscience
Reward enhances connectivity between the ventral striatum and the default mode network
Researchers have reported findings that add to our knowledge of how human behavior may be shaped by the default mode network, a specific network of brain regions with both resting and task-related states. The article, "Reward ...
Sep 16, 2022
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