Personality Profiles Tied to Lower Anxiety and Depression
Summary: Researchers report that high neuroticism increases the risk of mood disorders, but when combined with high extraversion or conscientiousness these traits…
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Mouse Study Finds Way to Ease Schizophrenia Symptoms
Summary: Scientists reduced schizophrenia-like symptoms in mice by restoring the ErbB4 receptor in adulthood. Source: Case Western Reserve University. Schizophrenia remains a…
How Fat Cells Drive Cognitive Decline and Neurodegeneration
Summary: New research reveals how adipocytes (fat cells) contribute to cognitive decline and increased risk of neurodegeneration. Using genetically modified mouse models,…
How the Brain Selects Sounds: The Science of Auditory Attention
How the Brain Selects Sounds: Neural Mechanisms of Auditory Attention Summary: A neuroimaging study maps the brain mechanisms that allow auditory selective…
Novel Genetic Test Uncovers Dementia Risk Genes
Summary: Researchers have identified multiple new genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), using high-throughput functional screening…
New Artificial Compound Eye Boosts 3D Object Tracking
Summary: A bio-inspired compound eye has been developed to reveal how insects detect objects and trajectories with exceptional speed, and it may…
How Exercise Can Help You Cut Back on Alcohol
Summary: New research shows that both aerobic exercise and yoga can lessen the desire to drink alcohol. In an acute test, one…
Brain Receptor Loss Tied to Low Activity in Postmenopausal Women
Summary: Researchers have identified a link between loss of ovarian hormones and altered activity in the nucleus accumbens after menopause. Source: University…
Pesticides in 1980s Milk Tied to Early Parkinson’s Signs
Association observed in nonsmokers who drank more than two cups daily A long-term study published online December 9, 2015, in the journal…
Why We’re Hardwired to Move to Music
Summary: A new Concordia University study shows that the pleasurable urge to move to music—commonly called “groove”—is a distinct physiological reaction that…
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