How Touching Is Perceived in the Brain – Investigated With Two-Person MRI Scans on Couples
An MRI in each other’s arms shows how physical contact alters the brains of couples. Researchers at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre have developed…
Psychiatry
New Drug Combo Shows Promise for Treatment of Depression and Addiction
The combination of naltrexone and ketamine can help treat both symptoms of addiction and depression, a preliminary study by Yale University researchers suggests. Substance abuse…
Alcohol Dependence and Psychiatric Disorders Share Genetic Links
Gene variants associated with alcohol dependence are also linked to the risk of psychiatric disorders and other drug use, a massive study of more than…
New Research Explains How LSD Changes Perception
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD have a profound impact on human consciousness, particularly perception. Researchers at Yale and the University of Zurich provide new insight…
Researchers Explain Why Certain People Possess Amazing Memory Abilities
How do house hunters who visit 20 homes daily still recall details of the master bedroom of a specific one? Our memories can perform this…
Study Shows A Depressed Spouse Increases One’s Own Cognitive Decline
Researchers at Yale School of Public Health and their scientific partners have found that having a depressed spouse can increase one’s own depressive symptoms as…
Scientists Identify Possible Neurobiological Home for Spiritual Experiences
Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience — the sense of connection to something greater than oneself. Activity in the…
Bipolar Disorder Associated with Increased Levels of Vitamin D
A blood test may have the potential to speed accurate diagnosis – and proper treatment – of bipolar disorder in children, new research suggests. Researchers…
Inhibition of FKBP51 Protein Reduces Obesity and Diabetes
For the first time, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich could prove that a stress protein found in muscle has a…
Yale Researchers Develop a New Way to Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease
Using a new technique called vibrational spectroscopy, doctors at Yale have developed a novel way to scan for Alzheimer’s disease. Deep within our brains is…
New Yale Study Reveals ADHD as a Collection of Different Disorders
New research from Yale University reveals that patients with different types of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have impairments in unique brain systems, indicating that there may…
Depression and Alcoholism Linked to SEMA3A Gene Variant in African Americans
A new genome-wide association study (GWAS) by Yale and University of Pennsylvania researchers found that a gene variant involved in brain development is strongly associated…
Histamine Cures Tourette-Like Tics in Mice
Researchers from Yale University produced increased grooming behavior in mice that may model tics in Tourette syndrome and discovered these behaviors vanish when histamine is…
Researchers Discover Four Genes Associated with Developing Tourette’s Disorder
A team of scientists has discovered four genes that are associated with a higher risk of developing Tourette’s disorder, although variants in as many as…
STEP Protein Linked to Alzheimer’s May Also Play a Role in Schizophrenia
New research from Yale University shows that an increase in the STEP (STriatal-Enriched protein tyrosine Phosphatase) protein leads to a disruption of synaptic function and…
New Equation Shows How Other People’s Fortunes Affect Our Happiness
A new equation shows how our happiness depends not only on what happens to us and how this compares to other people.The team developed an…
New Genome-Wide Analysis Links Marijuana Dependence and Major Depression
A newly published genome-wide analysis of more than 14,000 individuals has identified several gene variants that increase risk of cannabis dependence. The analysis also suggests…
Researchers Identify a Potential Marker for Schizophrenia
New research from Yale University reveals that even before the onset of schizophrenia, irregularities in key brain areas are already present in individuals at higher…