From the University of Turku press release: Finnish researchers have revealed how eating stimulates brain’s endogenous opioid system to signal pleasure and satiety. The recent results obtained by researchers from Turku PET Centre have revealed…
From the Cedars-Sinai press release: Cedars-Sinai neuroscience investigators have found that Alzheimer’s disease affects the retina — the back of the eye — similarly to the way it affects the brain. The study also revealed…
From the Biomed Central press release: Research published in the open access journal Microbiome sheds new light on how gut bacteria may influence anxiety-like behaviors. Investigating the link between gut bacteria and biological molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs)…
From the University of Freiburg press release: Filtering information for search engines, acting as an opponent during a board game or recognizing images: Artificial intelligence has far outpaced human intelligence in certain tasks. Several groups from…
From the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences press release: Gut microbes have been in the news a lot lately. Recent studies show they can influence human health, behavior, and certain neurological…
From The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine press release: Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a brain mechanism in siblings of bipolar patients that makes them…
From the JCI Journals press release: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) represents the leading cause of dementia worldwide. Currently, challenges in making an early and definitive diagnosis of AD limit opportunities to intervene with disease-modifying therapies before substantial…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release: A new method may help determine whether a person has Alzheimer’s disease or frontotemporal dementia, two different types of dementia that often have similar symptoms, according to a…
From the Harvard Medical School press release: By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct evidence that parts of our brains implicated in mental disorders may be shaped…