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Brain scans reveal compulsive shopping activates the same reward pathways as drug addiction. Nearly one-third of people in some countries struggle with uncontrollable buying behaviors.
A new LSD-derived compound called JRT shows promise for treating schizophrenia and other brain disorders without inducing hallucinations.
These drugs are already on the market ... so piecing together a picture of an “average” aging brain requires lots of brain scans. Luckily, the UK Biobank has plenty. Launched in 2006, the organization ...
Nearly 16 million American adults have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but evidence ...
London researchers have uncovered a potential link between frequent cannabis use and psychosis in young people. London ...
Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis can cause a thickening and hardening of the skin, heart and lungs—and cause painful contracting of the joints.
“This is important for the epilepsy scans because we need to see very precisely which part of the brain is misbehaving.” The trial of the new technique, published in Epilepsia, involved 31 patients ...
A new study found that people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) had elevated dopamine levels in a brain region associated with psychosis.
Ultra-high field 7T MRI scanners allow much more detailed resolution on brain scans ... to use these scans for scanning patients." The team tested their approach with 31 drug-resistant epilepsy ...
Now, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Vienna has published brain scan evidence demonstrating that exposure to nature can reduce pain. The research is available in Nature Communications ...
For the first time, scientists say, they have evidence that using a biologic drug to remove sticky beta amyloid plaques from ...