by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Research
A mysterious region deep in the human brain could be where we sort through the onslaught of stimuli from the outside world and focus on the information most important to our behavior and survival, Princeton University researchers have found. The researchers report in...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Concussion
UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers this week announced an important finding: residual symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and concussions may be linked in military personnel who endure blast and/or blunt traumas. Anthony Kontos, Ph.D.,...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Suicide
Testing positive for a common parasite that lives in the bodies of 10 – 20% of Americans is linked to a sevenfold higher risk of attempted suicide according to new research. This was the main finding of a study appearing in the August issue of The Journal of...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Obesity
A review article in the August issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, suggests that scientific advances in understanding the “addiction circuitry” of the brain could effectively treat obesity using deep brain...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Brain Complications
Current HIV drug therapies are not able to control the virus’ complete replication in the brain and are therefore ineffective against complications linked to neurocognitive impairment in HIV patients. However, a new study published online in the Journal of...
