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Medical Xpress / Exposure to air pollution during the first two years of life is associated with worse attention capacity in children
A growing body of research shows that exposure to air pollution, especially during pregnancy and childhood, may have a negative impact on brain development. Now a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) ...
Medical Xpress / Understanding the brain mechanisms behind emotion processing bias in treatment-resistant depression
One potential underlying cause of symptoms in individuals with depression is an emotion-processing bias which causes them to have a stronger response to negative information more so than positive. While prior research has ...
Medical Xpress / Stuck in fight-or-flight mode? Five ways to complete the 'stress cycle' and avoid burnout or depression
Can you remember a time when you felt stressed leading up to a big life event and then afterwards felt like a weight had been lifted? This process—the ramping up of the stress response and then feeling this settle back ...
Medical Xpress / Physical activity lowers cardiovascular disease risk by reducing stress-related brain activity, study finds
New research indicates that physical activity lowers cardiovascular disease risk in part by reducing stress-related signaling in the brain.
Medical Xpress / Researchers demonstrate miniature brain stimulator in humans
Rice University engineers have developed the smallest implantable brain stimulator demonstrated in a human patient. Thanks to pioneering magnetoelectric power transfer technology, the pea-sized device developed in the Rice ...
Medical Xpress / Decoding spontaneous thoughts from the brain via machine learning
A team of researchers led by Kim Hong Ji and Woo Choong-Wan at the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), in collaboration with Emily FINN at Dartmouth College, has unlocked ...
Medical Xpress / Brain stimulation treatment may improve depression, anxiety in older adults
A noninvasive brain stimulation treatment improved depression and anxiety symptoms among older adults in a new University of Florida-led study.
Medical Xpress / Certain personality traits possibly linked to increased risk of depression
A small team of psychiatrists and psychologists from The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, the University of Cambridge, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Virginia has found that ...
Medical Xpress / How childhood stress influences gene activity and increases the risk of mental illness
Many psychiatric illnesses are related to stress. Negative experiences in childhood can often affect how we deal with stress later in life. But what biological processes are involved? A study recently published in the journal ...
Medical Xpress / Brain vesicles found to contain selectively packaged, full-length mRNA
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have demonstrated that vesicles traveling between cells in the brain carry more complete instructions for altering cellular function than previously thought.
Medical Xpress / Study reveals that the brain's cerebellum can shape cognition
If you reward a monkey with some juice, it will learn which hand to move in response to a specific visual cue—but only if the cerebellum is functioning properly. So say neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh School ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers map how the brain regulates emotions
Ever want to scream during a particularly bad day, but then manage not to? Thank the human brain and how it regulates emotions, which can be critical for navigating everyday life. As we perceive events unfolding around us, ...