From the Vanderbilt University Medical Center via EurekAlert!: Early disruptions in serotonin signaling in the brain may contribute to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and other “enduring effects on behavior,” Vanderbilt University researchers report. Serotonin is…
From the UC San Francisco press release: Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by…
From the Stanford University press release by Erin Digitale: Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time how brain function differs in people who have math anxiety from those…
From the Stowers Institute for Medical Research press release via Newswise: Just like a road atlas faithfully maps real-word locations, our brain maps many aspects of our physical world: Sensory inputs from our fingers are…
From the UNC press release: What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences. Exactly why this happens is unclear. But…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health via EurekAlert!: A personality profile marked by overly gregarious yet anxious behavior is rooted in abnormal development of a circuit hub buried deep in the front center of…
From the NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development press release via ScienceDaily: Distinct patterns of activity — which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants– appear in the brains of adults who…
From the University of Southern California press release via EurekAlert!: A team of researchers that includes a USC scientist has methodically demonstrated that a face’s features or constituents – more than the face per se…
From the University of Virginia press release via HealthCanal: Researchers led by Jonathan Kipnis at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have, for the first time, used an immune therapy to halt the symptoms…
From the Yale University press release: The aging brain loses its ability to recognize when it is time to move on to a new task, explaining why the elderly have difficulty multi-tasking, Yale University researchers…