A new artificial intelligence algorithm analyses MRI data to accurately predict the age of a brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Free-Energy Principle Explains the Brain
The free-energy principle can explain how neural networks minimize energy costs and are optimized for efficiency.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Link Between Brain Cell Development and Risk of Schizophrenia Discovered
The genetic disruption of specific cell processes crucial to brain development was linked to disease risk in a wide range of mental health disorders including schizophrenia.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Heart Disease Causes Early Brain Dysfunction and Can Treble Key Alzheimer’s Protein
Heart disease that causes brain dysfunction can lead to the development of Alzheimer’s disease and triples the amount of amyloid-beta in the brain.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Why Severe Depression Affects Women and Men Differently
Researchers found alterations in different parts of the brain in males and females with severe depression. The findings also reveal a specific biomarker for depression in blood samples of women.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Alcohol Consumption Is Affected by a Protein Linked to the Circadian Rhythm
Mouse study reveals the presence of the Baml1 gene in the striatum has a sexually dimorphic effect on alcohol consumption. Male mice without the protein consumed more alcohol than those who did, while the reverse was true for females.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Neural Circuits That Regulate Spatial Learning and Memory in the Brain’s Hippocampal Formation Discovered
Study identifies a novel neural circuit that regulates spatial learning and memory in the brain’s hippocampal formation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Findings Open the Way to More Precise Diagnoses and Treatments of Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers have identified a link between misshapen, fast replicating tau proteins, and accelerated cognitive decline. The findings shed new light on the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How the Brain Helps Us Focus Our Attention
A new framework describes how the locus coeruleus regulates the brain’s sensitivity to relevant information during situations that require attention.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Anxiety and PTSD Linked to Increased Myelin in Brain’s Gray Matter
Researchers have discovered a link between anxiety behaviors and PTSD to an increase in myelin in the brain’s gray matter.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Biomarkers Linked to Autism Risk Identified
Researchers identified molecular signatures of gestational inflammation that appear to be biomarkers for autism risk. The immune signatures were identified in both maternal blood samples during pregnancy and in umbilical cord blood from children later …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Researchers Identify Biomarker for Depression and Antidepressant Response
Researchers have identified a novel biomarker for depression and antidepressant response. The biomarker can be identified and monitored through blood samples.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Gene Involved in Sense of Smell Could Play a Role in the Spread of Breast Cancer to the Brain
Inhibition of the OR5B21 olfactory receptor gene significantly decreased the metastasis of breast cancer cells to the brain, lungs, and bones, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New Treatment Leads to Much Less Overeating
A new treatment system that focuses on the link between eating and mental health helps people with obesity make healthier decisions when it comes to eating.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Can an Accent Influence Moral Decision-Making?
When presented with a moral decision in their native language by people with a foreign accent, people tend to make more rational decisions.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A Common Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease May Predispose Carriers to Severe COVID-19
Carriers of the Alzheimer’s associated APOE4 gene have more than double the risk of developing severe COVID-19, a new study reports. Additionally, more microscopic hemorrhages were found in the brains of APOE4 carriers who contracted coronavirus. Resea…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Ketamine Therapy Swiftly Reduces Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
Ketamine reduces symptoms of depression and suicidal thoughts within four hours of a single treatment, and the effects last for up to two weeks. Additional treatments may prolong the effects, researchers say.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Neurons That Wire Together Fire Together
A new study brings understanding how the brain processes information one step closer.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Stigma Surrounding Depression Drops for First Time in Us, but Increases for Other Mental Illnesses
While the stigma against depression has decreased for the first time, the stigma levels for other mental health disorders have either remained stagnant or increased.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Botox Injections May Reduce Anxiety
Patients who received botox injections at four different sites, not just the forehead, reported anxiety significantly less than those undergoing different treatments for the same conditions.
