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Benefits, risks of yoga found for bipolar disorder

From the Brown University media release: Right now no one can say whether yoga provides clinical benefits to people with bipolar disorder, but in a new article in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice, researchers report… 

What goes wrong in the brain when someone can’t spell

From the Johns Hopkins University media release: By studying stroke victims who have lost the ability to spell, researchers have pinpointed the parts of the brain that control how we write words. In the latest issue… 

Drug prevents key age-related brain change in rats

From the Society for Neuroscience media release: As brain cells age they lose the fibers that receive neural impulses, a change that may underlie cognitive decline. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine recently found a… 

Inflammation attacks a reward center in the brain

From the Elsevier media release: A new study by Neil Harrison and colleagues published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that a brain reward center, the striatum, may be directly affected by inflammation and that striatal change…