News tagged with control subjects
Addicts' cravings have different roots in men and women
When it comes to addiction, sex matters.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 30, 2012 |
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People rationalize situations they're stuck with, but rebel when they think there's an out
People who feel like they're stuck with a rule or restriction are more likely to be content with it than people who think that the rule isn't definite. The authors of a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Gene regulatory protein is reduced in bipolar disorder
Low levels of a brain protein that regulates gene expression may play a role in the origin of bipolar disorder, a complex and sometimes disabling psychiatric disease. As reported in the latest issue of Bipolar Disorders, the jo ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 25, 2011 |
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MRI study finds that depression uncouples brain's hate circuit
A new study using MRI scans, led by Professor Jianfeng Feng, from the University of Warwick's Department of Computer Science, has found that depression frequently seems to uncouple the brain's "Hate Circuit". ...
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Oct 04, 2011 |
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Profound reorganization in brains of adults who stutter
Hearing Beethoven while reciting Shakespeare can suppress even a King's stutter, as recently illustrated in the movie "The King's Speech". This dramatic but short-lived effect of hiding the sound of one's own speech indicates ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Breast density tied to specific types of breast cancer
Women with breasts that appear dense on mammograms are at a higher risk of breast cancer and their tumors are more likely to have certain aggressive characteristics than women with less dense breasts, according to a study ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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The secret to successful aging
Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 14, 2011 |
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World-first virtual reality study to trial new Parkinson's treatment
In a world-first study, researchers at the Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI) at the University of Sydney may have found a new way to help the Parkinson's disease patients who experience walking problems.
Jun 20, 2011 |
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New research provides insight into how obsessive-compulsive disorder develops
(Medical Xpress) -- New scientific evidence challenges a popular conception that behaviours such as repetitive hand-washing, characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), are carried out in response ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 23, 2011 |
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Cell division abnormality contributes to inflammation in COPD
Changes in the ability of lung cells to divide may play a role in initiating or prolonging lung tissue inflammation, a hallmark of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study conducted by researchers ...
May 15, 2011 |
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Where unconscious memories form
A small area deep in the brain called the perirhinal cortex is critical for forming unconscious conceptual memories, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain have found.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Sex is in the brain, says new research
More than 40 percent of women ages 18-59 experience sexual dysfunction, with lack of sexual interest — hypoactive sexual desire disorder, or HSDD — being the most commonly reported complaint, according to medical researchers. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 02, 2009 |
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