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Gratitude Interventions Don't Help With Depression or Anxiety
Researchers have found that gratitude interventions have a “limited” impact on reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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Largest Genetic Map of Psychiatric Disorders So Far
An international study published in the journal Cell, has described 109 genetic variants associated with eight psychiatric disorders: anorexia nervosa, autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette Syndrome, in a total of about 230,000 patients worldwide.
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Why Stats Could Benefit From Storytelling When Informing the Public
What drives the lingering public doubt despite the conclusions of credible experts? Part of the answer might be a story, or more accurately, failing to tell one.
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Surgeons Slash Opioid Use by 64% Using New Program
Opioid prescriptions have been a known driver of the opioid epidemic, and it's now known that opioid prescriptions that last longer than five days are a risk factor for longer-term opioid use. A recent solution has been enacted where surgeons implemented a pain management program that reduced longer-term prescriptions by two-thirds.
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Which Is the Bravest Breed? Study Examines Dog Behavior
A new study finds that all dog breeds have unwanted behavior, such as noise sensitivity, aggressiveness and separation anxiety, but differences in frequency between breeds are great.
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Motor Cortex "Clutches" Help the Brain Start Movement
Researchers have discovered that signals in the motor cortex act like a series of clutches when it comes to moving, an understanding that could lead to treatments for Parkinson’s disease.
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Over a Third of Survivors Show PTSD Symptoms After Trauma and Violence
Over 30 percent of injury survivors who are treated in hospital emergency departments will have moderate-to-severe symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in the first year following the initial incident, according to a new study.
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Seismic Technology Could Help Us See Inside the Brain
Scientists have developed a novel technique that could lead to fast, finely detailed brain imaging with a compact device that uses only sound waves.
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Knowledge of Protein Structure in the Brain Could Lead to Novel Drugs
Researchers have succeeded in crystallizing and mapping a novel conformation of LeuT, a bacterial protein that belongs to the same family of proteins as the brain's so-called neurotransmitter transporters. The discovery could help design better drugs for conditions including ADHD, depression and epilepsy.
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Connecting Inflammation and Synapse Loss in Alzheimer's Disease
In a new study, researchers have taken an in-depth look at how inflammation and the molecules involved lead to the synapse loss seen in Alzheimer’s disease.
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