From the University of Minnesota Medical School press release: Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience mental illness in a given year. Severe mental illnesses cause the brain to have trouble dealing…
From the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston press release: Eating disorder researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have discovered a neurocircuit in mice that, when activated,…
From the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center press release: There’s currently no known way to prevent older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from developing Alzheimer’s disease. But there may be a safe and feasible…
From the Washington University School of Medicine press release: An international team of researchers led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a pair of genes that influence risk…
From the University of California – Davis press release: Boosting a single molecule in the brain can change “dispositional anxiety,” the tendency to perceive many situations as threatening, in nonhuman primates, researchers from the University…
From the University of Texas at Austin press release: Although some studies have linked high levels of testosterone to immoral behavior, a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour finds testosterone supplements actually made people more sensitive…
From the Queensland University of Technology press release: Marching, wiggling and tapping a beat aids young children to develop their self-regulation skills and improve school readiness, as shown in newly-published QUT early childhood research. Associate…
From the University of Turku press release: It has been recognised for a long time that a child’s attachment and ability to regulate emotions are built on a reasonably good interaction with their parents. The…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release: Increasingly, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research has focused on the preclinical stage, when people have biological evidence of AD but no or minimal symptoms, and when interventions might have…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Physical manifestations of negative memories in the hippocampus could underlie cognitive symptoms of depression, according to research in mice published in JNeurosci. Inhibiting these manifestations could be a future…