From the Aarhus University press release via EurekAlert!: Viruses and genes interact in a way that may increase the risk of developing schizophrenia significantly. This happens already in the developing foetus. An international team of…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have found the first evidence that selective activation of the dentate gyrus, a portion of the hippocampus, can reduce…
From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: Saying that the sense of taste is complicated is an understatement, that it is little understood, even more so. Exactly how cells transmit…
From the University of Chicago Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into…
From the Elsevier press release via ScienceDaily: Many lines of evidence indicate that schizophrenia is a disorder of neurodevelopment. For example, genes implicated in the heritable risk for schizophrenia are also implicated in the development…
From the National University of Ireland, Galway press release via AlphaGalileo: New findings about how the brain functions to suppress pain have been published in the leading journal in the field Pain, by National University…
From the Baylor College of Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: Introductions at a party seemingly go in one ear and out the other. However, if you meet someone two or three times during the party,…
From the Washington University School of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Sleep is disrupted in people who likely have early Alzheimer’s disease but do not yet have the memory loss or other cognitive problems characteristic…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: A new drug may improve memory problems in people with moderate Alzheimer’s disease, according to a phase IIa study released today that will be presented…
From the Elsevier media release: Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) deficits have been implicated in schizophrenia and depression. In schizophrenia, deficits have been particularly well-described for a subtype of GABA neuron, the parvalbumin fast-spiking interneurons. The activity…