Cryptococcal meningitis is a leading cause of death among adults with...
A common first-line treatment approach for cryptococcal meningitis in low-income countries is being compromised by the emergence of drug resistance, new University...
Attention can be boosted by using neurofeedback to increase alpha brainwaves
Having trouble paying attention?
MIT neuroscientists may have a solution for you: Turn down your alpha brain waves.
Children with depressed parents have structural differences in the brains
The largest brain imaging study of children ever conducted in the United States has revealed structural differences in the brains of those...
Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could reverse the...
In a publication appearing today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, and Ben-Gurion University scientists report that senile mice...
Increased levels of Smad7 in T-cells is linked to multiple sclerosis-like...
It is incompletely understood which factors in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) act as a trigger for the immune system to attack...
Women who take oral contraception have reduced hypothalamic volume
Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, had significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared...
Episodic exposure to nicotine – caffeine – amphetamines trigger malfunctions in...
If pregnant women take significant amounts of the psychostimulants coffee, nicotine, and amphetamine during pregnancy, their children have a higher risk of...
Beta-blocker use to be a risk factor for patients with “stiff...
Nearly six million Americans have heart failure, a leading driver of health care costs in the United States.
Researchers have successfully reproduced the electrical properties of biological neurons onto...
Artificial neurons on silicon chips that behave just like the real thing have been invented by scientists – a first-of-its-kind achievement with...
MRI illuminates abnormalities in the brains of people with depression
MRI illuminates abnormalities in the brains of people with depression, potentially opening the door to new and improved treatments for the disorder,...
