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• Human brain recordings provide highly sought insights into cause of Parkinson's disease

  08-08-2016 23:22
  A team of researchers is the first to systematically record neural activity in the human striatum, a deep brain structure that plays a major role in cognitive and motor function. These two functions are compromised in Parkinson's disease, which makes the neuron-firing abnormalities the study results revealed key to better understanding the pathophysiology of PD and, ultimately, developing better treatments and preventions.
  
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• Some psychotic disorders may be induced by drugs designed to combat effects of epilepsy

  08-08-2016 22:36
  A new study indicates that antiepileptic drugs designed to reduce seizures, may also induce psychotic disorders in some patients.
  
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• New model recreates early spread of Parkinson's disease in the brain

  08-08-2016 22:36
  They're two of the biggest mysteries in Parkinson's disease research -- where does the disease start? And how can it be stopped early in the process?
  
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• Researchers find brain's 'physics engine'

  08-08-2016 22:34
  Whether or not they aced the subject in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding and predicting how objects in the world will behave. Cognitive scientists have found the source of that intuition, the brain's 'physics engine.'
  
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• Early brain connections key to reading

  08-08-2016 20:49
  A new study reveals that a brain region dedicated to reading has connections necessary for that skill even before children learn to read. By scanning the brains of children before and after they learned to read, the researchers found they could predict the location where each child's visual word form area (VWFA) would develop.
  
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• Targeting brain cells to alleviate neuropathic pain

  08-08-2016 18:06
  Chronic neuropathic pain -- caused by nerve damage as a result of an injury, surgery or a debilitating disease like diabetes or cancer -- could be greatly reduced in animals when the injury is treated targeting microglia brain cells within a few days, say scientists. This research will help in the quest to help the more than 1 million Americans afflicted with this chronic pain.
  
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• Seasonal allergies could change your brain

  08-08-2016 18:04
  Hay fever may do more than give you a stuffy nose and itchy eyes, seasonal allergies may change the brain, says a new study.
  
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• Activating dopamine neurons could turn off binge-like eating behavior

  08-08-2016 17:56
  While binge eating affects about 10 percent of adults in the United States, the neurobiological basis of the disease is unclear. Researchers have found that certain neural circuits have the ability to inhibit binge-like eating behavior in mice.
  
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• The Case for Reverence Has Little to Do With Religion

  08-08-2016 14:03 via counsellingresource.com
  
  What is reverence? What does it mean to truly revere something? Is it really in our best interest to be reverent? And if so, when? Tags: character disturbance, in practice, relationships, religion
  
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• New ways to mass produce human neurons for studying neuropsychiatric disorders

  08-08-2016 11:00
  
  Scientists from Singapore have streamlined the process of using human stem cells to mass produce GABAergic neurons (GNs) in the laboratory.
  
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• Reading books could increase lifespan

  08-08-2016 09:00
  
  Get straight to that book store; a new study suggests reading books for as little as 30 minutes daily could increase lifespan by up to 2 years.
  
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• Is your memory as accurate as you think it is?

  08-08-2016 08:30
  
  We all forget things - but are the things that we do remember as accurate as we’d like to believe?Mind gamers: How good do you reckon your memory is? We might forget things from time to time, but the stuff we do remember is pretty accurate, right? The trouble is, our memory isn’t as infallible as we might want to believe, and you can test this for yourself using the simple experiment below. Related: The Stroop test: how colourful is your language?Continue reading...
  
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