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Can Brain Stimulation Cut Excessive Drug Use in Schizophrenia?

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation has been used to treat cannabis use disorder in people with schizophrenia.
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Higher Education Doubles Chances of Reversing Mild Cognitive Impairment

New research has found that people with mild cognitive impairment may not inevitably develop dementia and, in fact, having higher education and advanced language skills more than doubles their chances of returning to normal.

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Studying Cerebrospinal Fluid Could Help Identify Aggressive Brain Tumors in Children

According to research, it may be possible to identify the presence of an aggressive brain tumor in children by studying their cerebrospinal fluid.
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The Gut’s Sweet Tooth May Undermine the Effectiveness of Sugar-Free Soda

Sugar-free drinks and foods pass the taste test for many people looking to cut down on their calorie consumption. But a new study suggests that the gut is far harder to fool than our taste buds.


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Milk Protein's Similarity to Multiple Sclerosis Target May Worsen Symptoms

Multiple sclerosis sufferers often complain of more severe disease symptoms after consuming dairy products. Researchers have now found a possible cause for this.
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A New Model for Aging Uses a "Wikipedia-Style" Approach to Science

Huge amounts of time and money have been devoted to finding treatments for diseases that become more common as we age, like cancer and Alzheimer’s. However, a growing number of scientists who view such diseases as symptoms of a bigger and more universal process: aging itself.

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New Discoveries Reveal Information's Flow in the Brain

A long-standing research collaboration is simultaneously recording populations of neurons across multiple brain areas in the visual system and utilizing novel statistical methods to observe neural activity patterns being conveyed between the areas.
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In Nature, There's No Time To Nap

According to a study, baboons sacrificed sleep to stay awake in new environments and to remain close to their group-mates, regardless of how much they had slept the prior night or how much they had exerted themselves the preceding day.
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Vitamin Intake Associated With Reduced Parkinson's Inflammation

A new clinical trial has examined the ability of a vitamin B3-like compound to enhance a potentially neuroprotective metabolic pathway in Parkinson's disease.

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Astrocytic Lipids Could Contribute to the Spread of Alzheimer's

Research has shown how a mutation in the APOE protein changes lipid transport in the brain and could promote Alzheimer’s disease.
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