Medical research
Signals from muscle protect from dementia
How do different parts of the body communicate? Scientists at St. Jude are studying how signals sent from skeletal muscle affect the brain.
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Veterans see positive changes in emotional resilience after intervention
A six-week training program designed to strengthen resilience against emotional distress in military veterans was associated with positive changes in brain function and increased confidence in their ability to regulate emotions, ...
Mar 9, 2021
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Neuroscience
Add sleep woes to long-term effects of concussions
Concussions can increase the long-term risk of a wide range of sleep disorders, a new study indicates.
Mar 4, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Nonconscious brain modulation to remove fears, increase confidence could offer relieve from PTSD and phobias
Machine learning-based training of brain activity has led to exciting developments: reducing fears, changing preferences, and even increasing confidence. Unfortunately, data to better understand the mechanisms of brain self-regulation ...
Feb 23, 2021
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Neuroscience
Increasing glutathione levels lowers Alzheimer's pathology and improves cognitive decline
Australian researchers have shown that a dietary supplement that increases the levels of a powerful antioxidant in the brain may represent a novel strategy for the treatment and/or prevention of cognitive impairment and debilitating ...
Feb 17, 2021
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Neuroscience
How comparable different stress tests are
Scientists use many different tests to investigate what happens in the brain in people experiencing stress. It is unclear to what extent the various methods with which subjects are placed under stress are comparable to each ...
Feb 12, 2021
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Neuroscience
Father's early-life exposure to stress associated with child's brain development
The FinnBrain research of the University of Turku has demonstrated for the first time that the stress the father has experienced in his childhood is connected to the development of the white matter tracts in the child's brain. ...
Feb 4, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Team finds strategy to protect developing brain from prenatal stress in mice
New research from the University of Iowa and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center demonstrates that offspring can be protected from the effects of prenatal stress by administering a neuroprotective compound during ...
Jan 29, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Unlocking PTSD: New study reveals why trauma-focused psychotherapy treatment works
Trauma-focused psychotherapy is widely considered the best available treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the ways in which this method affects the brain to promote recovery from PTSD are not well ...
Jan 27, 2021
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Health
Scientists investigate for the first time the long-term damage to women's brains caused by gender violence
The research team of the BELIEVE project at the University of Granada (UGR) has identified the numerous changes in the brain caused by gender violence among female victims. This is the first study of its kind to be carried ...
Jan 20, 2021
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