Written by Brett J. Weiss September 26, 2021 Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Baylor scientists show a brain region producing memory-based depictions of the environment miscommunicate with a visual region in hallucinating LSD-injected rats. Highlights A brain region that encodes and retrieves memories called the hippocampus shows weak and disorganized communication with a visual …
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Testosterone Improves Age-Related Cognitive Decline in Rats
Testosterone supplementation attenuates age-related cognitive dysfunction and improves mitochondrial function in aged male rat neurons.
COVID-19-Induced Brain and Spinal Cord Injury May Drive Neurological and Psychiatric Complications
COVID-19 patients with psychiatric problems have elevated blood inflammatory markers and an imbalanced immune response.
Oxytocin Hormone and Music Therapy in Anxiety and PTSD
Combining oxytocin and music may provide a way to treat PTSD and anxiety
Microglia Dysfunction in Brain Pathology
Microglial dysfunction can lead to brain pathologies like autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and schizophrenia.
Us and Them: Neurobiology of Intergroup Differences and Conflict
Image by John Hain from Pixabay Written by Brett Weiss December 2019 Biology reveals that humans are animals– Old World primates, also referred to as apes (Sapolsky, 2018). Humans have innate needs and desires to belong to groups, and with these needs comes potential for differences and conflict between groups. Countless examples throughout human history …
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Neurobiology of Love
Research gives credulity to the statement “love is blind.”
Schizophrenia: An Evolutionary Enigma
The evolutionary advantage hypothesis of schizophrenia
Effects of Nicotine on Cognition
Nicotine in acute cognition enhancement and chronic disruption of neurotransmitter systems
Circadian Rhythm in Sleep and Psychopathology
‘Clock’ gene transcription and translation are involved in maintaining the circadian rhythm. Genetic aberrations of these genes associate with many mood disorders.