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CBD Could Help Addicts Stay Clean
A preclinical study in rats has shown that there might be value in using cannabidiol to reduce the risk of relapse among recovering drug and alcohol addicts.
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If Cannabis is Getting Stronger, Why Aren’t Cases of Schizophrenia Rising?
This topic has been debated by many experts and it remains contested whether a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking cannabis and schizophrenia truly exists.
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Dissecting Artificial Intelligence To Enable Better Understanding of the Brain
Cognitive neuroscientists are using emerging artificial networks to enhance their understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems, the human brain.
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Mutations in Bassoon Gene Underlie Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Newly discovered gene mutations may help explain the cause of a disease that drastically impairs walking and thinking.
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Inter-areal Balanced Amplification Enhances Signal Propagation in the Brain
Neuroscientists find that signal transmission in a large-scale model of the primate brain is robust under the condition in which area-to-area connections exhibit a “balance” between excitation and inhibition.
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Early Life Experiences Alter DNA Structure in the Adult Brain
Scientists report in the journal Science that the type of mothering a female mouse provides her pups actually changes their DNA.
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Worms Exhibit Fear and Respond to Anti-anxiety Meds
A team of investigators has uncovered new clues about the mechanisms of fear and anxiety through an unlikely creature: the tiny nematode worm.
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Vegetable Compound Could Have a Key Role in ‘Beeting’ Alzheimer’s Disease
A compound in beets that gives the vegetable its distinctive red color could eventually help slow the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain, a process that is associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
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The Mouse Brain Can Prioritize Hunger by Suppressing Pain When Survival is at Stake
Researchers show that pain and hunger interact in complex ways in mice: extreme hunger suppresses less-urgent inflammatory pain, so that the mice are willing to go find food, but leaves them able to feel and react to more life-and-death kinds of pain.
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A New Way of Thinking About Tau Kinetics
Scientists have used mass spectrometry and stable isotope labeling kinetics to study tau in the cerebrospinal fluid of people who were known to have Alzheimer's and healthy controls with some interesting results.
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