Legal Cannabis Hemp Oil Relieves Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Summary: In mice with chronic postoperative neuropathic pain, full‑spectrum hemp oil produced a pronounced reduction in mechanical pain sensitivity—nearly a tenfold improvement…
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Why Voter Attention Spikes When Politicians Break Party Lines
Summary: A neuroimaging study finds that politically incongruent statements—when a candidate’s position conflicts with their party—evoke stronger responses in the insula and…
New Study Links Unique Brain Cells to OCD and Anxiety
Summary: Researchers at the University of Utah identified a distinct sublineage of microglia—Hoxb8-lineage microglia—that protects mice from obsessive-compulsive-like overgrooming and anxiety. When…
Inherited Pathway Linked to Schizophrenia Risk, New Study Shows
Brain cell insulation abnormalities caused in part by genes Schizophrenia is among the most disabling psychiatric disorders. It commonly begins in adolescence…
Study Links Parasite Strains to Severe Illness in US Newborns
NIH-supported research underscores value of screening for toxoplasmosis Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have identified which strains of the…
Macular Degeneration: New Protein Therapy Reduces Symptoms
Summary: New research identifies the protein TIMP3 as being overproduced in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and implicates it in early disease processes.…
New Research Links Gene to Sleep Issues in Autism
Summary: Deficiencies in the SHANK3 gene are associated with sleep disturbances in both people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and in mouse…
Hearing Aids Could Cut Dementia Risk from Hearing Loss
Summary: A large UK cohort study finds that people with hearing loss who do not use hearing aids have a higher risk…
AI Reveals How the Brain Understands Sentences
Summary: By combining neuroimaging with advanced artificial intelligence, researchers have mapped a distributed brain network that represents the meaning of spoken sentences.…
Why People Differ in Visual Recognition and Object Matching
Summary: Researchers have identified a broad perceptual skill, called “o,” that predicts how well people learn and perform tasks requiring object recognition…
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