Psychology & Psychiatry
Magic mushrooms may 'reset' the brains of depressed patients
Patients taking psilocybin to treat depression show reduced symptoms weeks after treatment following a 'reset' of their brain activity.
Oct 13, 2017
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Neuroscience
Creative people have better-connected brains, research finds
Seemingly countless self-help books and seminars tell you to tap into the right side of your brain to stimulate creativity. But forget the "right-brain" myth—a new study suggests it's how well the two brain hemispheres ...
Feb 21, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Inflammation linked to weakened reward circuits in depression
About one third of people with depression have high levels of inflammation markers in their blood. New research indicates that persistent inflammation affects the brain in ways that are connected with stubborn symptoms of ...
Nov 20, 2015
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Neuroscience
Scientists may have found a cause of dyslexia
A duo of French scientists said Wednesday they may have found a physiological, and seemingly treatable, cause for dyslexia hidden in tiny light-receptor cells in the human eye.
Oct 18, 2017
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Neuroscience
Alcohol, tobacco and time spent outdoors linked to brain connections
Exciting early results from analysing the brain imaging data, alongside thousands of measures of lifestyle, physical fitness, cognitive health and physical measures such as body-mass-index (BMI) and bone density have been ...
Sep 20, 2016
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Neuroscience
Forever young: Meditation might slow the age-related loss of gray matter in the brain
Since 1970, life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, with people living more than 10 years longer. That's the good news.
Feb 5, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Depression affects the brains of males and females differently
When researchers in the UK exposed depressed adolescents to happy or sad words and imaged their brains, they found that depression has different effects on the brain activity of male and female patients in certain brain regions. ...
Jul 11, 2017
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Neuroscience
In people who intentionally let their minds wander, two main brain cell networks broadly overlap
Our thoughts are not always tethered to events in the moment. Although mind wandering is often considered a lapse in attention, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and ...
Apr 13, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Algorithm can predict possible Alzheimer's with nearly 100 percent accuracy
Researchers from Kaunas universities, Lithuania developed a deep learning-based method that can predict the possible onset of Alzheimer's disease from brain images with an accuracy of over 99 percent. The method was developed ...
Sep 3, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Methotrexate exposure impacts cognitive processes cancer survivors need to multitask
Research from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital suggests that pediatric leukemia patients exposed to higher concentrations of the chemotherapy drug methotrexate are more likely to struggle with mental flexibility, organization ...
Jun 6, 2016
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