UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators have uncovered new insights on adolescent fighting: what triggers it, and how to stem it. Varied real-life factors pile on daily to put teens on edge: destructive behaviors like drug abuse, drinking or high-risk sexual encounters; poverty; academic troubles; and even depression...
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September 20, 2010
New Insights Into Teen Violence
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September 15, 2010
The Neurocircuitry of Anorexia Nervosa
Walter Kaye, M.D., Director of the Eating Disorders Treatment and Research Program at the University of California, San Diego presented a Frontiers in Neuroscience lecture on September, 14, 2010. The presentation was titled: " Is anorexia nervosa an eating disorder? New insights into puzzling symptoms". The presentation highlighted some his recent research that has been su
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June 10, 2010
Biologists isolate genes that regulate the sleep-feeding conflict: New insights into how brain chooses between critical survival behaviors
A team of biologists has isolated genes that regulate the sleep-feeding conflict. The study offers new insights into how the brain chooses between behaviors that are critical for survival.
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March 6, 2010
Tourette Syndrome
New Insights Into Diagnosis, Comorbidities, and Treatment Approaches
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February 25, 2010
Rwandan Genocide Survivors Provide New Insights Into Resilience and PTSD
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda resulted in the mass killing of up to one million people over the course of about 100 days. There can be no doubt or surprise then that some of the survivors developed posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, an anxiety disorder that can develop after witnessing or experiencing a traumatizing event, such as abuse, war, or natural disaster. However, even under stress as
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February 10, 2010
Locust study promises new insights into limb control
New research into how the brain controls the movements of limbs could prompt major advances in understanding the human brain and the development of prosthetic limbs.
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February 2, 2010
Wakeful Resting Linked To Improved Memory
New research from the US shows that resting while awake appears to strengthen memory, revealing new insights into how forms of rest other than sleep, affect the memory consolidation process...
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September 10, 2009
You Can Believe Your Eyes: New Insights Into Memory Without Conscious Awareness
Scientists may have discovered a way to glean information about stored memories by tracking patterns of eye movements, even when an individual is unable (or perhaps even unwilling) to report what they remember. The research provides compelling insight into the relationship between activity in the hippocampus, eye movements, and both conscious and unconscious memory.
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July 22, 2009
Review Provides New Insights Into The Causes Of Anorexia
New imaging technology provides insight into abnormalities in the brain circuitry of patients with anorexia nervosa (commonly known as anorexia) that may contribute to the puzzling symptoms found in people with the eating disorder.
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July 6, 2009
Difference In The Way Children With Autism Learn New Behaviors Described
Researchers have uncovered important new insights into the neurological basis of autism.
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