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Click here to view original web page at Neuroscience Hacks: The Healing Power of Pleasure Much of our understanding of what enables us to experience pleasure counterintuitively comes from the more abundant research into pain. When we investigate the brain correlates of pleasure more closely, we discover that the pathways for pleasure and pain are … Continue reading “Neuroscience Hacks: The Healing Power of Pleasure”
Click here to view original web page at Research team builds framework to quantify brain’s control costs image: The previous framework (left) fails to take into account noises of the brain. The brain state transitions were written as point-to-point, the dynamics as deterministic, and the control cost as the integral of the squared control input. … Continue reading “Research team builds framework to quantify brain’s control costs”
Click here to view original web page at Alto Neuroscience Announces Positive Phase II Results Supporting Precision Psychiatry Platform Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Neurons transmitting information On the second day of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Alto Neuroscience announced positive Phase IIa safety and efficacy for ALTO-100, its targeted drug candidate. This is the … Continue reading “Alto Neuroscience Announces Positive Phase II Results Supporting Precision Psychiatry Platform”
Click here to view original web page at The rebirth of psychedelic medicine It was 1985 and John Lawn had seen enough. In Boston nightclubs and Dallas bars, MDMA — better known by its street name, ecstasy — had become an enormously popular recreational drug. It had also terrified the Reagan administration, which was in … Continue reading “The rebirth of psychedelic medicine”
Click here to view original web page at Immunity-Linked Genes Expressed Differently in Brains of Autistic People Genes involved in immune system function have atypical expression patterns in the brains of people with some neurological and psychiatric conditions, including autism, according to a new study of thousands of postmortem brain samples. Of the 1,275 immune … Continue reading “Immunity-Linked Genes Expressed Differently in Brains of Autistic People”
Click here to view original web page at An Education Doesn’t Just Make You Smarter, It Protects Your Gut Summary: Better education has a strong genetic correlation and protective causal association against several disorders that affect the gut, a new study reports. Source: Edith Cowan University We’ve long known education is important for many aspects … Continue reading “An Education Doesn’t Just Make You Smarter, It Protects Your Gut”
Click here to view original web page at Study unveils similarities in the activity patterns of artificial agents and the brain Hierarchical behavior composition in mice. Credit: Hiroshi Makino. Artificial intelligence (AI) draws inspiration from current knowledge of the human brain, artificially replicating some of its learning processes and functions. The extent to which artificial … Continue reading “Study unveils similarities in the activity patterns of artificial agents and the brain”
Click here to view original web page at Blood-Based Markers May Reveal Alzheimer’s Disease Ten Years Before Symptoms Show Summary: A new blood test can detect the GFAP protein at elevated levels in blood samples up to ten years before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are first noticeable in those with an inherited form of the … Continue reading “Blood-Based Markers May Reveal Alzheimer’s Disease Ten Years Before Symptoms Show”
Click here to view original web page at An Education Doesn’t Just Make You Smarter, It Protects Your Gut Summary: Better education has a strong genetic correlation and protective causal association against several disorders that affect the gut, a new study reports. Source: Edith Cowan University We’ve long known education is important for many aspects … Continue reading “An Education Doesn’t Just Make You Smarter, It Protects Your Gut”
Click here to view original web page at Free Symptom Questionnaire May Help Indicate Whether a Child Has Autism Summary: A freely available new questionnaire of measures of autism symptoms can help screen for ASD and monitor symptoms over time. Source: Wiley Investigators have developed a freely available measure of autism symptoms that can help … Continue reading “Free Symptom Questionnaire May Help Indicate Whether a Child Has Autism”
