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Drug Eases Recovery for Those With Severe Alcohol Withdrawal

Nov. 19, 2020 — Scientists say a drug originally developed to treat high blood pressure can reduce severe withdrawal symptoms for patients diagnosed with alcohol use ...

Does Air Pollution Increase Women's Risk of Dementia?

Nov. 18, 2020 — Older women who live in locations with higher levels of air pollution may have more brain shrinkage, the kind seen in Alzheimer's disease, than women who live in locations with lower levels, ...

Which Particulate Air Pollution Poses the Greatest Health Risk?

Nov. 18, 2020 — Researchers have investigated whether particulate matter from certain sources can be especially harmful to human health. They found evidence that the amount of particulate matter alone is not the ...

Parasite Infection Discovery Could Assist Mental Health Treatments

Nov. 16, 2020 — New research into how a common parasite infection alters human behavior could help development of treatments for schizophrenia and other neurological disorders. T. gondii currently infects 2.5 ...

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Memories Create 'Fingerprints' That Reveal How the Brain Is Organized

Nov. 20, 2020 — While the broad architecture and organization of the human brain is universal, new research shows how the differences between how people reimagine common scenarios can be observed in brain activity ...

Early Details of Brain Damage in COVID-19 Patients

Nov. 18, 2020 — Looking at six patients using a specialized magnetic resonance technique, researchers found that COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms show some of the same metabolic disturbances in the brain ...

Technology Lets Clinicians Objectively Detect Tinnitus for First Time

Nov. 18, 2020 — A technology called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) can be used to objectively measure tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, according to a new ...

Overly Reactivated Star-Shaped Cells Explain the Unpredictability of Alzheimer's Disease

Nov. 16, 2020 — Researchers have demonstrated that the severity of 'reactive astrocytes' is a key indicator for the onset of Alzheimer's ...

Worms Reveal Why Melatonin Promotes Sleep

Nov. 16, 2020 — Melatonin is used as a dietary supplement to promote sleep and get over jet lag, but nobody really understands how it works in the brain. Now, researchers show that melatonin helps worms sleep, too, ...

Link Between Alzheimer's Disease and Gut Microbiota Is Confirmed

Nov. 13, 2020 — In recent years, the scientific community has suspected that the gut microbiota plays a role in the development of the disease. A team now confirms the correlation, in humans, between an imbalance in ...

Chronic Alcohol Use Reshapes the Brain's Immune Landscape, Driving Anxiety and Addiction

Nov. 16, 2020 — Deep within the brain, a small almond-shaped region called the amygdala plays a vital role in how we exhibit emotion, behavior and motivation; it's ...

Scientists Discover New Mechanism Controlling Brain Size

Nov. 16, 2020 — International research has led to the discovery of a new mechanism that controls the size of our brains. The finding, which is based on studies on a rare congenital brain disease, delivers an ...

Promising MS Drug May Worsen Disease

Nov. 13, 2020 — The drug has not yet made it to human trials for multiple sclerosis, but scientists are urging their colleagues to move ...

Saliva Testing May Help Doctors Diagnose Concussions

Nov. 9, 2020 — Doctors may soon be able to more accurately diagnose concussions by measuring the number of certain molecules in a person's saliva, according to researchers. The results of a recent clinical study ...