Food for depression: How your diet can help improve depression
Food for depression: Have you ever thought about the effects of your daily food intake on your health? Most likely you know by now that […]
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Neurodegenerative Diseases: Characteristics, Cures, and Prevention
Neurodegenerative diseases- What are they? Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by damage to the nervous system, causing cognitive decline and changes in brain functions and how the […]
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Light Sleep: Do you wake up feeling refreshed?
Sometimes you just don’t wake up feeling refreshed. Why is that? In this article, we will answer: what is light sleep, what are the sleep […]
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Neurotransmitters: 5 Crazy Chemicals that Control Almost Everything
You’ve probably heard of how dopamine plays a role in feelings of pleasure, or how serotonin levels influence depression. But, neurotransmitters do so much more […]
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Demyelinating Diseases: A useful guide to diseases involving myelin
What are the types of demyelinating diseases that affect the central nervous system? In this article, we answer all your questions: functions of myelin, causes […]
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Dyspraxia: Is your child clumsy? A reason for this could be this condition
Dyspraxia. It is commonly seen nowadays: On the one hand, you have the group of children that seems to be able to have no problems […]
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Addiction: From Drugs to Brain to Behavior
Addiction is a very common concept in today’s society. When we think about addiction, we usually picture drug addicts, looking for another fix. Addiction, however, […]
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Optogenetics: An all powerful revolutionary technique?
Optogenetics is a new form of stimulating and controlling cells in the living tissue. Research is advancing in ways that we have not thought imaginable […]
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Neuropsychology: A complete guide to all your questions
We clarify all the questions you may have about neuropsychology: What it is, what does it study, neuropsychologist’s role and patients, what cognitive tests are […]
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Brainwaves: What They Are and What They Do
Brainwaves are the collection of electrical activity in the brain. This electrical activity is caused by the communication of neurons in the brain. The communication […]
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Endless Possibilities: How Technology Affects Your Brain
In the current times, technology affects your brain in powerful ways that shape who you are as a person. This is especially the case for […]
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Sleepless nights with your phone? You may have technological insomnia
Texts from your ex late on a Saturday night (or early Sunday morning?), compromising pictures that his friends post to Facebook… Social networks have robbed us […]
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Chemical reaction keeps stroke-damaged brain from repairing itself
Chemical reaction keeps stroke-damaged brain from repairing itself. Nitric oxide, a gaseous molecule produced in the brain, can damage neurons. When the brain produces too […]
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Stress resilience, susceptibility traced to neurons in reward circuit
Stress resilience, susceptibility traced to neurons in reward circuit. A specific pattern of neuronal firing in a brain reward circuit instantly rendered mice vulnerable to […]
Continue reading »Neurons made from stem cells drive brain activity after transplantation in laboratory model. Sanford-Burnham researchers convince transplanted stem cell-derived neurons to direct cognitive function—getting us […]
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Brain protein mutation linked to autism
Brain protein mutation linked to autism. Researchers said they have discovered a genetic mutation in people with autism that cuts communication between brain cells to […]
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