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Date & Place:31 August 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Depression is actually defined by specific clinical symptoms such as sadness, difficulty to experience pleasure, sleep problems etc., present for at least two weeks, with impairment of psychosocial ...
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Date & Place:31 August 2010 - BBC news
The severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) may change with the seasons, say US researchers.
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Date & Place:30 August 2010 - The Independent news
By STEVE CONNOR - A revolutionary way of screening the entire human genome for the genetic signposts of disease has produced its latest success - the first inherited link to common migraine and a p ...
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Date & Place:29 August 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD GRAY - The special lifelong bond that children have with their mothers may have its roots in how our brains react when we see our mothers' faces, according to scientists.
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Date & Place:28 August 2010 - Telegraph news
A gentle stroll several times a week not only boosts fitness levels - it also makes you brighter.
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Date & Place:26 August 2010 - Psych Central news (press release)
By RICK NAUERT - New technology may provide physicians with a rapid and noninvasive method of diagnosing degenerative disorders early in the disease process.
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Date & Place:26 August 2010 - Pysorg.com (press release)
An international study led by University of Montreal scientists suggests family history may not be a good predictor of the presence of mutations predisposing to autism or schizophrenia.
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Date & Place:25 August 2010 - Nature news feature
By DAVID CYRANOSKI - Stymied in the search for genes underlying human neuropsychiatric diseases, some researchers are looking to dogs instead. David Cyranoski meets the geneticist's new best friend ...
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Date & Place:25 August 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Scientists at Harvard University have found that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used in more mundane choices related to money and food.
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Date & Place:25 August 2010 - Baylor College of Medicine news (press release)
By GRACIELA GUTIERREZ - A new kind of psychiatry built on objective measures derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging (or fMRI) of the brain performed while patients play economic games c ...
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Date & Place:24 August 2010 - Pysorg.com (press release)
A North Carolina State University researcher has helped to locate and identify a gene responsible for a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects American Staffordshire terriers. This same gene ...
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Date & Place:22 August 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD GRAY - New technology could allow people to dictate letters and search the internet simply by thinking, according to researchers at Intel who are behind the project.
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Date & Place:20 August 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Practising yoga really does relax your mind as well as your body more than other types of exercise, a new study claims.
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Date & Place:19 August 2010 - Scientific American news
By DAVID BIELLO - Scientists suggest that some psychedelics are remarkably good at treating disorders like depression-and may now have a clue as to why
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Date & Place:19 August 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
The case of an elderly woman who had mental problems associated with Alzheimer's disease, but turned out to have treatable limbic encephalitis, is detailed in a Case Report in this week's edition o ...
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Date & Place:19 August 2010 - BBC News
By WILL GRANT - The village of Barranquitas in Venezuela has the highest concentration of Huntington's disease, a devastating brain condition, in the world.
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Date & Place:17 August 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists identify a novel feedback mechanism that regulates differentiation of adult neural stem cells
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Date & Place:16 August 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
11 hours of meditation training leads to positive changes based on brain imaging at the University of Oregon
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Date & Place:15 August 2010 - The Guardian news
By IAN SAMPLE - Some people may be more susceptible to Parkinson's disease because of glitches in their immune systems, scientists say
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Date & Place:15 August 2010 - Science news
By BRUCE BOWER - A new study of youths reveals that social scientists' opinions still vary on the potential of studying how genes interact with social contexts
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Date & Place:15 August 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Findings represent additional clues to help predict vulnerability to drug abuse
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Date & Place:13 August 2010 - Discover Magazine blog
By JEREMY JACQUOT - You may not be consciously aware of it, but at any given time your brain is playing host to billions of simultaneous conversations (and no, I'm not talking about those voices). ...
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Date & Place:13 August 2010 - Psych Central news
By JESSICA WARD JONES - Anxiety in childhood appears to be associated with increased activity in certain areas of the brain.
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Date & Place:13 August 2010 - BBC news
By CAROLINE PARKINSON - A new form of brain disease, similar to Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, could affect more people than previously thought, researchers in the US say.
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Date & Place:12 August 2010 - Reuters news
By JULIE STEENHUYSEN - Genetic testing might have helped identify people who would become depressed or suicidal while taking Sanofi-Aventis' weight loss drug Acomplia, which might have helped keep ...
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Date & Place:10 August 2010 - Los Angeles Times news
By RACHEL BERNSTEIN - In a study on rats, researchers use magnets, ultrasound and tiny particles to deliver chemotherapy drugs to precise locations. Clinical trials on humans are at least four to fi ...
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Date & Place:10 August 2010 - BBC news
By JANE HUGHES - A brain scan that detects autism in adults could mean much more straightforward diagnosis of the condition, scientists say.
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Date & Place:09 August 2010 - ScienceDaily (press release)
Neural processing in the brains of parents talking to their babies may reveal secrets about early stages of language acquisition in infants, according to findings by researchers at the RIKEN Brain S ...
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Date & Place:09 August 2010 - The Globe and Mail news
By CAROLYN ABRAHAM - Technology allows researchers to monitor brain-cell activity in powerful detail over several days
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Date & Place:08 August 2010 - BBC news
By EMMA WILKINSON - A set of genes which renders people more prone to meningitis has been pinpointed by researchers.
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Date & Place:08 August 2010 - Scientific American news
By KATHERINE HARMON - Researchers have been searching for decades for a way to mend damage to the spinal cord, an injury that can lead to life-long paralysis.
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Date & Place:07 August 2010 - NewScientist news
By TYLER BANCROFT - IN A classic Monty Python moment, a chirpy, long-haired man on a crucifix urges others around him in a similar predicament to cheer up.
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