Taking lithium was associated with reduced rates of self-harm and unintentional injury in patients with bipolar disorder compared with other commonly prescribed maintenance treatments, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.
Self-harm is a major cause of illness...
Scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles to stimulate neurons deep in the brain to evoke body movements of mice. This image shows a section of a mouse brain with injected magnetic nanoparticles (colored red) covering targeted cells in the striatum.
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Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are committed to working but vulnerable to experiencing mental health problems, according to a new study by researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at...
Cornell University researchers found that music can have important effects on the cooperative spirits of those exposed to music. Credit: Cornell University
From casual acoustic melodies at the coffee shop to throbbing electronic beats at teen clothing outlets, music is...
A team of neuroscientists has found that people are biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios — for example, a series of four beats separated by equal time intervals.Image: MIT News
Study finds the brain is...
"Children seem to interpret disjunction like conjunction," observes MIT Linguistics Professor Danny Fox. However, Fox adds, although "it has been claimed children are very different from adults in the interpretation of logical words," the study's larger implication is almost...
Add-on treatment with high-dose b-vitamins can significantly reduce symptoms of schizophrenia more than standard treatments alone, a new study finds. Image credit: Flickr/Vitamina Verde
A review of worldwide studies has found that add-on treatment with high-dose b-vitamins - including B6,...
Milgram experiment tests people's willingness to deliverer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an experimenter.Image Credit:Flickr/Ape Lad
The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this...
Fundus of the patient's eye implanted with Argus II Retinal 98 Prosthesis, taken soon after the surgery.Credit: Castaldi E, Cicchini GM, Cinelli L, Biagi L, Rizzo S, Morrone MC (2016).; Creative Commons Attribution License
More than 40 million people worldwide...
Skydivers provided the smell of fear for investigating how autistic men react to odors. (Stock image)
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Autism typically involves the inability to read social cues. We most often associate this with visual difficulty in interpreting...
You might remember you ate cereal for breakfast but forget the color of the bowl. Or recall watching your partner put the milk away but can't remember on which shelf.
A new Northwestern Medicine study improved memory of complex, realistic...
