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A team of researchers has identified a protein complex that is elevated in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The team have designed a peptide to target and interfere with the complex, this interference could help treat symptoms of the disorder.

A team have discovered that melanoma cells fight anti-cancer drugs by altering their cytoskeleton. This presents as a potential new therapeutic route for tackling skin and other cancers that develop drug resistance.

A molecule, 2-arachidonoylglycerol, also referred to as “2-AG”, protects against stress by reducing “anxiety-causing” connections between two particular regions in the brain – 2-AG elicits its effect by activating the same receptors as cannabis.

bluebird bio Inc. have announced that their gene therapy for the blood disorder transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (TDT) is commercially available for the first time.

English and Italian speakers with dementia-related language impairment experience distinct kinds of speech and reading difficulties based on features of their native languages, according to new research.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and their colleagues in Germany, the USA and Finland have studied the safety of very long-term antipsychotic therapy for schizophrenia. According to the study, mortality was higher during periods when patients were not on medication than when they were.

A new study identifies how the immune system normally protects neurons in the gut, and why they can die after infection, providing potential insight into IBS.

Researchers have been able to record, decode and reconstruct neural activity patterns for common movement skills in both motor and sensory areas of the cerebral cortex. The findings have immediate implications for neuroprostheses, devices that bypass neurological injuries by inferring intended motor actions from a patient’s brain

A new study has identified that people’s experience of living with loneliness is shaped by a number of personal and environmental factors, and how loneliness can be overcome.

Experts in the Japanese phenomena of hikikomori say this condition, which involves extreme social isolation, is more widespread than previously acknowledged, and it deserves a clear and consistent definition to improve treatment across the globe.