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Showing posts with label Psychiatry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychiatry. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Mystery solved: New study reveals how DNA repair genes play a major role in Huntington's disease

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Dr. Xiangdong William Yang Photo Credit: Courtesy of UCLA/Health A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associate...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Study reveals reasons for misdiagnosis of frontotemporal dementia

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Researchers have discovered patterns in the misdiagnosis of frontotemporal dementia Photo Credit:  Anna Shvets University of Queensland rese...
Monday, January 27, 2025

What drives mood swings in bipolar disorder? Study points to a second brain clock

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body’s natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patient...

Researchers detect that people with schizophrenia have an altered ability to visually perceive contrast

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UB researchers Cristina de la Malla and Daniel Linares. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Barcelona According to a review of more than...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Drawing a Line from the Gut Microbiome to Inflammation and Depression

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Morganella morganii bacteria on a plate. Photo Credit: Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) It’s become increasingly clear that the gut mi...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes

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Image Credit: Won Lab Building off previous groundbreaking research, a new study identifies specific genetic variants that have significant ...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Feeding the lonely brain

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Study finds that lonely women experienced increased activation in regions of the brain associated with food cravings Photo Credit:  Ryanwar ...

Autism and ADHD are linked to disturbed gut flora very early in life

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The researchers have found links between the gut flora in babies first year of life and future diagnoses. Photo Credit:  Cheryl Holt Disturb...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Ultrasound therapy shows promise as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

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Professor Jürgen Götz with an ultrasound machine. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Queensland University of Queensland researchers ha...

Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves severe mental illness

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A study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine showed that diet can help those with serious mental illness. Video Credit:  Stanford Medicin...
Friday, March 22, 2024

The aging brain: protein mapping furnishes new insights

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Stained mouse microvessels under the fluorescence microscope (green: vascular endothelium, red: cell nuclei).  Image Credit: © Dichgans Lab ...
Monday, March 4, 2024

Dopamine production is not behind vulnerability to cocaine abuse

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Averaged parametric brain maps of [18F]-FDOPA kicer, and index of dopamine synthesis capacity, in high- and low-impulsive rats before and af...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Gut-brain communication turned on its axis

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How the gut communicates with the brain Image Credit: Copilot AI The mechanisms by which antidepressants and other emotion-focused medicatio...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Sleep improves ability to recall complex events

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Sleep is important for reinforcing complex associations, the basis for completing memories of entire events Photo Credit:  Shane Researchers...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Oregon State study sheds light on links between cognitive and motor skill development in children with autism

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Image Credit:  Aedrian A recent study by Oregon State University researchers highlighted the ways motor skills and cognitive skills develop ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Study finds childhood bullying linked to distrust and mental health problems in adolescence

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Photo Credit:  Mikhail Nilov A new study, co-led by UCLA Health and the University of Glasgow, found that young teenagers who develop a stro...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Researchers identify brain hub with key role in learned response to direct and indirect threats

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Diagram of mouse prefrontal cortex showing neural projections to the midbrain (purple) and the amygdala (green), pathways involved in learni...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Enlarged Spaces in Infant Brains Linked to Higher Risk of Autism, Sleep Problems

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Dea Garic, PhD, and Mark Shen, PhD, both in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, have found that enlarged perivascular spa...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Brain health in over 50s deteriorated more rapidly during the pandemic

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Photo Credit:  Gabriel Porras Brain health in over 50s deteriorated more rapidly during the pandemic, even if they didn’t have COVID-19, acc...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

High metabolism is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease

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Illustration Credit:  geralt An early phase in the process of developing Alzheimer’s disease is a metabolic increase in a part of the brain ...