Category: Neuroscience

Study suggests smartphones can predict brain function associated with anxiety and depression

From the Dartmouth College press release: Information on social activity, screen time and location from smartphones can predict connectivity between regions of the brain that are responsible for emotion, according… Read more »

Study suggests link between depression and inflammation, metabolic change

From the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology press release: Anxiety and depression are often linked and assumed to be closely related, but now research has shown for the first time that… Read more »

Study examines the brain circuitry underlying dissociative experiences

From the Stanford Medicine press release: It’s neither uncommon nor especially worrisome for people to lose themselves in a great book or a daydream. But it’s disconcerting when feeling transported… Read more »

Researchers find specific brain circuit damaged by social isolation during childhood

From the Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine press release: Loneliness is recognized as a serious threat to mental health. Even as our world becomes increasingly connected… Read more »