Why Obsessive Gaming Is Not a Clinical Disorder
Study Finds Little Evidence That Adolescent “Gaming Addiction” Necessitates Clinical Treatment Summary: New research finds scant evidence that obsessive gaming in adolescents,…
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Scientists Discover Brain Circuit That Regulates Anxiety
New findings may help neuroscientists pinpoint better targets for anti-anxiety treatments. Anxiety disorders — including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), social phobias and…
New Study Links Autism Genes to Patient IQ
Summary: A new computational model pinpoints genes linked to autism and can predict the degree of intellectual disability in people with ASD…
Novel Therapy Reduces Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma
Summary: New research from the University of Delaware shows that, in male animals, certain medications given at the time of early-life mistreatment…
New Gene Therapy Shows Anti-Aging Effects
Summary: Researchers transferred regeneration-associated genes from simple, highly regenerative animals into fruit flies, improving intestinal stem cell function and reducing age-related intestinal…
Metabolic Molecule Fuels Aggressive Brain Tumor Growth
Abnormal Metabolism Drives Growth in Aggressive Mesenchymal Glioblastoma Subtype Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James…
Why Good People Do Bad Things
Anticipating temptation may improve ethical behavior, a new study finds. Honest behavior can resemble maintaining a healthy diet: awareness and advance planning…
Inside the Sleepwalking Brain: How Parasomnia Works
Summary: Researchers have made important progress in understanding parasomnias — complex sleep behaviors in which people act while partially disconnected from wakefulness.…
Persistent Brain Changes Raise Depression Relapse Risk
Summary: Even after clinical symptoms improve, people who have experienced recurrent depression can continue to show heightened sensitivity to punishment and negative…
Why Human Behavior Follows Probabilistic Inference
Summary: The human brain encodes a detailed, mathematical and probabilistic representation of the aspects of our surroundings that it considers important. Source:…
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