Fresh insight into how the brain responds to medically induced cooling could inform treatments for head injuries and conditions such
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How social isolation transforms the brain: A particular neural chemical is overproduced during long-term social isolation, causing increased aggression and fear
Chronic social isolation has debilitating effects on mental health in mammals — for example, it is often associated with depression
Continue reading »Most deprived are nearly twice as likely to develop dementia
Older adults in England with fewer financial resources are more likely to develop dementia, according to new UCL research. Researchers
Continue reading »Stroke prevention drug combo shows promise, study says
If you’ve had a minor stroke or a transient ischemic stroke (TIA), taking the clot-preventing drug clopidogrel along with aspirin
Continue reading »Stress helps unlearn fear: New findings on extinction learning may prove useful for therapies
Stress can have a positive effect on extinction learning, which causes previously learned associations to dissolve. According to the findings
Continue reading »Molecule could improve memory, reduce Alzheimer’s degradation, study finds
A Purdue University graduate and a Purdue Research Park of Northwest Indiana (NWI) startup have published a research study in
Continue reading »Breakdown of brain’s visual networks linked to mental illness: Poor communication between brain regions responsible for understanding what we see may increase risk of mental illness
Individual regions of the brain have to team up to get things done. And like in any team, the key
Continue reading »Age, marital status, BMI and sleep associated with risk for dementia
Could your age, marital status, BMI (body mass index) and amount of sleep impact your risk for dementia? Researchers at
Continue reading »Reflecting on possessions can curb people’s impulse buying: Practice provides a way of mentally ‘shopping the closet’ and quells desire to buy, experts find
Consumers who reflected on their recently used personal belongings experienced less desire for an unexpectedly encountered product, were less likely
Continue reading »Novel techniques for three-dimensional visualization of microscopic structures in the human brain
A team of scientists from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and
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