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• Placebo sweet spot for pain relief identified in brain

  28-10-2016 15:01
  Scientists have identified for the first time the region in the brain responsible for the "placebo effect" in pain relief, when a fake treatment actually results in substantial reduction of pain, according to new research. Pinpointing the sweet spot of the pain killing placebo effect could result in the design of more personalized medicine for the 100 million Americans with chronic pain.
  
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• Neurobiology: Supporting the damaged brain

  28-10-2016 15:00
  Embryonic nerve cells can functionally integrate into local neural networks when transplanted into damaged areas of the visual cortex of adult mice, say researchers.
  
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• What effect does urban greenspace have on children's behaviour?

  28-10-2016 12:00
  
  In increasingly urbanised environments, there’s some evidence to suggest that dedicated greenspace might have a beneficial impact on childhood aggression and depressionMarianito sat in the clinic office looking downcast. He’d been referred to me in the primary care clinic because of fights at school. Despite complaints from the school about aggression, to me, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, he presented as a soft spoken and quiet 12-year-old of Salvadorean parents. After telling
  
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• Can urban greenspace have on an effect on children's behaviour?

  28-10-2016 12:00
  
  In increasingly urbanised environments, there’s some evidence to suggest that dedicated greenspace might have a beneficial impact on childhood aggression and depressionMarianito sat in the clinic office looking downcast. He’d been referred to me in the primary care clinic because of fights at school. Despite complaints from the school about aggression, to me, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, he presented as a soft spoken and quiet 12-year-old of Salvadorean parents. After telling
  
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• Genetic risk factor for binge eating discovered

  28-10-2016 09:00
  
  Researchers have identified a gene (CYFIP2) associated with binge eating.This finding represents one of the first examples of a genome-wide significant genetic factor to be identified for...
  
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• Thriller: why do our brains allow us to enjoy being scared? | Dean Burnett

  28-10-2016 08:45
  
  Halloween is a time when we celebrate horror, People enjoy being scared, even though they technically shouldn’t. It’s because our brains are confusing ...If you were to be presented with a scene of unimaginable gore, where several of your fellow-humans were being hacked to death and their entrails and vital fluids scattered liberally around the room, your immediate reaction would presumably be to run away from this horror, and try to find safety (assuming you weren’t busy vomit
  
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