Early one morning, while checking on a slumbering patient at the Center for Sleep Medicine, Erik St. Louis, M.D., noticed something peculiar. The patient, a woman in her early 60's, had started running beneath her bedsheets. ...
Aug 28, 2023
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Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered a neglected brain region that could play a critical role in how likely a person with drug use disorders is to relapse, even after a long withdrawal period. ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Understanding how the motor cortex is involved in active inference of speech perception and decisions is important to understanding human language intelligence, which may inspire the next generation of AI. However, three ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Ketamine might be better known as a recreational drug or anesthetic. But there's growing evidence for its use for people with hard-to-treat depression.
Jul 14, 2023
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Scientists at Stanford Medicine conducted a study describing a new category of depression—labeled the cognitive biotype—which accounts for 27% of depressed patients and is not effectively treated by commonly prescribed ...
Jun 23, 2023
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Magnets to treat depression? It may sound bizarre, but this treatment is now available on the NHS. It's called transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS.
Jun 7, 2023
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Powerful magnetic pulses applied to the scalp to stimulate the brain can bring fast relief to many severely depressed patients for whom standard treatments have failed. Yet it's been a mystery exactly how transcranial magnetic ...
May 16, 2023
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Accelerated schedules for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can be offered to patients experiencing treatment-resistant major depressive disorder (MDD), a group of clinician–researchers and neuroscientists ...
May 12, 2023
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Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have successfully implemented a special form of classical conditioning. They showed on a group of 75 people that effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can be triggered ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder that affects the way people move. Often beginning with small tremors in the hand, the disease progresses to affect a person's gait and balance.
Apr 19, 2023
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