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• 'Baby talk' can help songbirds learn their tunes

  31-05-2016 22:52
  Adult songbirds modify their vocalizations when singing to juveniles in the same way that humans alter their speech when talking to babies. The resulting brain activity in young birds could shed light on speech learning and certain developmental disorders in humans, according to a study.
  
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• Brain needs to 'clean itself up' so that it can 'sort itself out'

  31-05-2016 17:32
  A new piece of research has revealed how the brain’s cleaning up mechanisms function in neurodegenerative diseases. This discovery opens up a new channel for exploring therapies that could palliate the effects of brain diseases.
  
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• Hunting for the brain's opioid addiction switch

  31-05-2016 17:27
  New research is contributing to a better understanding of the ways opiate-class drugs modify brain circuits to drive the addiction cycle. The identification of these opiate-induced changes offers the best hope for developing more effective pharmacological targets and therapies to prevent or reverse the effect of opiate exposure and addiction.
  
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• Comparison of couples' therapy interventions for breast cancer patients shows different benefits depending on stress level

  31-05-2016 16:48
  Is a couples’ support group or an enhanced couples’ group therapy intervention with skill instruction more effective for helping women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer? Research shows each has its own benefits depending on the patient’s stress level.
  
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• Teenage brain on social media

  31-05-2016 16:44
  Teenagers' brains have been scanned while they used social media in a first-of-its-kind study. Among the new findings: The same brain circuits that are activated by eating chocolate and winning money are activated when teenagers see large numbers of 'Likes' on their own photos, and teenagers are definitely influenced by their online 'friends,' even if they barely know them.
  
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• Ever-changing moods may be toxic to the brain of bipolar patients

  31-05-2016 16:44
  A new study shows that the blood of bipolar patients is toxic to brain cells and may affect the connectivity ability of neurons. The research group also presents an in vitro study model for a disease for which no animal model has been yet developed.
  
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• Transmission of genetic disorder Huntington's disease in normal animals

  31-05-2016 16:42
  Mice transplanted with cells grown from a patient suffering from Huntington's disease (HD) develop the clinical features and brain pathology of that patient, suggests a new study.
  
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• Vicious circle of platelets

  31-05-2016 16:40
  Inhibition of platelets in Alzheimer's disease patients may become important in therapy in future, say researchers whose findings could be of great importance for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease patients.
  
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• New findings linking abnormalities in circadian rhythms to neurochemical to changes in specific neurotransmitters

  31-05-2016 16:40
  Scientists have published results of the first study of its kind to link abnormalities in circadian rhythms to changes in specific neurotransmitters in people with bipolar disorder. The study was conducted using postmortem brains in which 15 brains were used from healthy controls, 15 with bipolar disorder, and 12 with schizophrenia.
  
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• Migraine prevention: Monoclonal antibodies could become additional therapy option

  31-05-2016 14:24
  Researchers are focused on preventing or shortening the duration of migraine attacks by looking at established drug treatment options and those that could shape future therapies.
  
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• Scientists find brain area responsible for learning from immediate experience

  31-05-2016 14:18
  Monkeys who could not use their mediodorsal thalamus were less able to respond to changes that required them to adapt their behavior to continue making the right choices to maximize rewards. They also struggled with their decisions when they were presented with a choice of several differently rewarded options.
  
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• Researchers find new signs of stress damage in the brain, plus hope for prevention

  31-05-2016 14:18
  When mice experience chronic stress, neurons within part of their brain's fear and anxiety center, the amygdala, retract, new research indicates. It also suggests how such changes could be prevented.
  
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• Leaky blood-brain barrier linked to Alzheimer's disease

  31-05-2016 14:18
  Researchers using contrast-enhanced MRI have identified leakages in the blood-brain barrier of people with early Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study. The results suggest that increased BBB permeability may represent a key mechanism in the early stages of the disease.
  
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• Do We Work Better to Music?

  31-05-2016 12:20 via counsellingresource.com
  
  Getting and keeping the right frame of mind and mood while working appears to have much to do with picking the right kind of music to play.Tags: anxiety and stress, news and research, work-life
  
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• When Elders Stop Driving, Risk of Social Isolation Looms

  31-05-2016 12:17 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthWhen elderly drivers have to stop getting behind the wheel, they run the risk of social isolation, especially if they don’t have an alternative transportation plan, a recent study suggests. The study looked at driving habits and social activities, like visiting friends and family or going out to dinner or the movies, for more than 4,300 adults over age 65.
  
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• More Than 45 Million Trapped in Modern Slavery

  31-05-2016 12:17 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesMore than 45 million men, women and children globally are trapped in modern slavery, far more than previously thought, with two-thirds in the Asia-Pacific, a study showed Tuesday.
  
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• Denmark to Declassify Being Transgender As Mental Disorder

  31-05-2016 12:17 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - HealthDenmark will next year declassify "being transgender" as a mental illness, lawmakers from the parliament health committee decided on Tuesday. "It is completely inappropriate to call it a sickness," the committee's deputy chairman Flemming Moller Mortensen told AFP. "There is a longstanding wish from the trans community in Denmark to have it removed" from the health ministry's clinical guidelines on
  
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• Women are more interested in sex than you think

  31-05-2016 05:59 via wsj.com
  
  Men underestimate their wife’s or girlfriend’s sexual desire; read her signals.
  
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• Baby sitting may prime brains for parenting

  31-05-2016 05:58 via wsj.com
  
  Animal study finds evidence that caregiving affects brain chemistry.
  
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