by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, OCD
A report published in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication, has found that patients with hoarding disorder had abnormal activity in regions of the brain that was stimulus dependent when the person had to decide what to do with...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis
A “one-size-fits-all” new class of drugs that targets a particular type of brain inflammation is showing early promise for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and traumatic brain injury. A pre-clinical...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Research
It isn’t uncommon for people to pass for ages much older or younger than their years, but researchers have now found that this feature doesn’t apply to our brains. The findings reported online on August 16 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, show...
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.,...
