• How brain stimulation alleviates symptoms of Parkinson's disease
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Persons with Parkinson's disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain pacemaker. In a current study, researchers...
  • Increased risk of psychopathology found in offspring of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A new study confirms that children of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing psychopathology compared to children whose parents do not have these conditions. The study, examines how the clinical...
  • Common antidepressants could help the immune system fight cancer
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    SSRIs boosted the ability of T cells to kill cancer cells and suppressed tumor growth in both mouse and human tumor models.
  • Clinical trial shows improvements for spinal cord injuries
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Researchers demonstrated unprecedented rates of recovery for spinal cord injuries. Individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury safely received a combination of stimulation of a nerve in the neck with progressive, individualized...
  • Could personality tests help make bipolar disorder treatment more precise?
    Friday, May 16, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A new study suggests that it might be possible to personalize care for people with bipolar disorder, using the results of detailed personality tests. It finds that such tests might help identify people who have certain combinations of...
  • Too much sleep can hurt cognitive performance, especially for those with depression
    Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Sleeping nine hours or more per night is associated with worse cognitive performance, and it is even more the case for those with depression.
  • Study links childhood trauma to increased substance use and unexpected effects on heart rate and blood pressure in adolescents
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Childhood trauma significantly increases the likelihood of engaging in harmful alcohol consumption, smoking and illicit drug use, by the age of 18.
  • Depression and other mental health conditions linked with immune response, study finds
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Depression, schizophrenia and other mental health conditions affect 1 in 4 people in their lifetime, but mechanisms underlying these conditions are poorly understood. New research has linked the body's immune response with schizophrenia,...
  • Mechanism by which the brain weighs positive vs. negative social experience is revealed
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Researchers have identified the neural mechanisms in the brain that regulate both positive and negative impressions of a social encounter, as well as how an imbalance between the two could lead to common neuropsychiatric disorders.
  • Compelling new insights into dynamics of the brain's serotonin system
    Friday, April 25, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) system, a key part of the nervous...
  • Primate mothers display different bereavement response to humans
    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Macaque mothers experience a short period of physical restlessness after the death of an infant, but do not show typical human signs of grief, such as lethargy and appetite loss, finds a new study by anthropologists.
  • Police officers face twice the risk of traumatic brain injuries and PTSD, survey finds
    Friday, April 11, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Police officers are more than twice as likely to have traumatic brain injuries compared to the general population.
  • Gender gap in teenage depression is twice as large in London than in Tokyo, new study finds
    Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Research has tracked depressive symptoms in 7100 young people from Tokyo and London and shown girls have more depressive symptoms than boys in both cities. The study found that this gap is around twice as large in London and the...
  • Climate change fuelling mental health crisis in areas most affected by climate crisis
    Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Climate change is not just an environmental issue -- it's a mental health crisis impacting on adolescent wellbeing right now in areas most affected by climate change, according to new research.
  • Robotics and spinal stimulation restore movement in paralysis
    Wednesday, March 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Scientists have developed an approach that combines rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord stimulation to restore movement in people with spinal cord injuries. The technology enhances rehabilitation and enables activities like cycling...
  • Evidence expanding that 40Hz gamma stimulation promotes brain health
    Monday, March 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A decade of studies from labs around the world provide a growing evidence base that increasing the power of the brain's gamma rhythms could help fight Alzheimer's, and perhaps other, neurological diseases.
  • Spinal cord stimulation restores neural function, targets key feature of progressive neurodegenerative disease
    Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, including ALS.
  • Nerve stimulation: The brain is not always listening
    Monday, January 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Various diseases can be treated by stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear with electrical signals. However, this technique does not always work. A study has now shown: The electrical signals must be synchronized with the body's natural...
  • Mental well-being and physical activity can form a positive cycle
    Friday, January 24, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    According to a recent study, the tendency to experience positive affectivity contributed to people being physically active or even increasing their activity during the COVID-19 restrictions. In contrast, depressive feelings were linked...
  • Researchers unravel a novel mechanism regulating gene expression in the brain that could guide solutions to circadian and other disorders
    Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A collaborative effort has shed valuable light on how monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and now histamine help regulate brain physiology and behavior through chemical bonding of these monoamines to histone...
  • Integrating GABA and dopamine signals to regulate meal initiation
    Friday, December 20, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    When you are feeling hungry, the brain takes the necessary steps toward consuming a meal. Many of these steps are not well known, but a new study reveals brain circuits and chemical messengers that contribute to the regulation of meal...
  • App helps alleviate mental health symptoms in bereaved parents
    Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A new study shows that an app can help parents who are mourning the loss of a child. Parents who used the app for three months reported reduced symptoms of prolonged grief and post-traumatic stress, and also had fewer negative thoughts....
  • Antidepressants may act in gut to reduce depression and anxiety
    Wednesday, December 11, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    In animal studies, boosting serotonin in the cells that line the gut reduced anxious and depressive-like behaviors without causing cognitive or gastrointestinal side effects.
  • Scientists discover new receptor for nerve growth factor--a promising target for treating pain
    Thursday, December 5, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Researchers have found a new receptor for nerve growth factor that plays an important role in pain signaling, even though it does not signal on its own, according to a new study. The findings hold promise for finding new treatments for...
  • New hope for schizophrenia: iTBS over the left DLPFC improves negative and cognitive symptoms
    Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Theta burst stimulation (TBS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique known for modifying human behavior and treating neurological diseases. A group of scientists conducted a systematic review and network meta-analysis to determine...
  • For those with CTE, family history of mental illness tied to aggression in middle age
    Wednesday, November 27, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    People who have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) who have a family history of mental illness may have a higher risk of aggression in middle age, according to a new study.
  • Brain stimulation effectiveness tied to learning ability, not age
    Wednesday, November 27, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A study reveals that the effectiveness of brain stimulation on motor skills is determined by an individual's learning ability rather than age, highlighting the need for a more personalized approach to neurorehabilitation.
  • Dopamine and serotonin work in opposition to shape learning
    Monday, November 25, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Research shows that reward-based learning requires the two neuromodulators to balance one another's influence -- like the accelerator and brakes on a car
  • Researchers use fitness tracker data and machine learning to detect bipolar disorder mood swings
    Monday, November 25, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Investigators evaluated whether data collected from a fitness tracker could be used to accurately detect mood episodes in people with bipolar disorder.
  • How nerve stimulation could ease inflammatory bowel disease
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A new study shows stimulating the vagus nerve in mice with colitis reduced stress-driven symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease by regulating SUMOylation, an immune response that triggers gut inflammation.
  • Magnetic field applied to both sides of brain shows rapid improvement for depression
    Monday, October 28, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A type of therapy that involves applying a magnetic field to both sides of the brain has been shown to be effective at rapidly treating depression in patients for whom standard treatments have been ineffective. The treatment -- known as...
  • Depression: Dysfunction of neurons in the amygdala may be behind negative perceptions of the environment
    Friday, October 25, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively negative way. But the mechanisms underpinning this 'negativity bias,' which can fuel the development of...
  • Good physical fitness from childhood protects mental health
    Tuesday, October 15, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A recent study found that good physical fitness from childhood to adolescence is linked to better mental health in adolescence. These results are significant and timely, as mental health problems are currently a major societal challenge,...
  • Tiny magnetic discs offer remote brain stimulation without transgenes
    Friday, October 11, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Novel magnetic nanodiscs could provide a much less invasive way of stimulating parts of the brain, paving the way for stimulation therapies without implants or genetic modification, researchers report.
  • New research identifies key mental health risk factors for children after trauma
    Thursday, October 10, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A new study has shed light on why some children and adolescents develop mental health disorders like PTSD, anxiety, or depression after experiencing a traumatic event.
  • Adding vagus nerve stimulation to training sessions may boost how well sounds are perceived
    Wednesday, October 9, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Just as a musician can train to more sharply distinguish subtle differences in pitch, mammals can improve their ability to interpret hearing, vision, and other senses with practice. This process, which is called perceptual learning, may...
  • Deep brain stimulation instantly improves arm and hand function post-brain injury
    Tuesday, October 1, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or stroke.
  • Digital biomarkers shedding light on seasonality in mood disorders
    Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Wrist-based activity sensors worn by individuals with depression and those without over the course of two weeks provided evidence for the relationship between daily sunlight exposure and physical activity, according to a new study.
  • Researchers achieve a significant advancement in early diagnosis of bipolar disorder in adolescents
    Thursday, September 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Researchers report significant strides in enhancing early diagnosis of bipolar disorder in adolescents. They demonstrate the efficacy of integrating multimodal MRI with behavioral assessments for greater diagnostic precision. Bipolar...
  • Vital language sites in brain act like connectors in a social network
    Monday, September 16, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    When surgeons perform brain surgery on people with brain tumors or epilepsy, they need to remove the tumor or abnormal tissue while preserving parts of the brain that control language and movement. A new study may better inform doctors'...
  • Tracking depression
    Friday, September 6, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Serotonin in depression is highly relevant in diagnosis, treatment, and drug development. To better study this area, a team has now developed a fluorescent probe for imaging processes that is highly sensitive and selective toward serotonin.
  • A new drug target for psychiatric disorders
    Wednesday, September 4, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Scientists have identified a molecular intermediate of a serotonin receptor that is involved in diseases such as depression and schizophrenia. The study points to a potentially new target for therapeutics.
  • Study assesses seizure risk from stimulating thalamus
    Wednesday, August 21, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    In awake mice, researchers found that even low deep brain stimulation currents in the central thalamus could sometimes still cause electrographic seizures.
  • Taming Parkinson's disease with intelligent brain pacemakers
    Monday, August 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Two new studies are pointing the way toward round-the-clock personalized care for people with Parkinson's disease through an implanted device that can treat movement problems during the day and insomnia at night.
  • Study reveals ways in which 40Hz sensory stimulation may preserve brain's 'white matter'
    Friday, August 9, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Scientists report that gamma frequency light and sound stimulation preserves myelination in mouse models and reveal molecular mechanisms that may underlie the benefit.
  • Processing traumatic memories during sleep leads to changes in the brain associated with improvement in PTSD symptoms
    Wednesday, August 7, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient's brain, shifting from fear and arousal to a more neutral...
  • Serotonin-producing neurons regulate malignancy in ependymoma brain tumors
    Wednesday, July 31, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Researchers have discovered tumor-neuron interactions that regulate the growth of ependymoma brain tumors.
  • Boosting fruit intake during midlife can ward off late-life blues
    Monday, July 22, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    In a large Singapore cohort study involving over 13,000 participants spanning close to 20 years, higher consumption of fruits during midlife was found to be associated with lower odds of depressive symptoms at late-life.
  • Bipolar disorder and alcohol: It's not as simple as 'self-medication'
    Monday, July 22, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    Bipolar disorder and alcohol problems seem to go hand-in-hand, leading to a widespread belief that drinking acts as a kind of 'self medication' to ease bipolar's life-altering symptoms of mania, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances...
  • Researchers discover a new neural biomarker for OCD
    Friday, July 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Depression News
    A recent study has identified a specific neural activity pattern as a novel biomarker to accurately predict and monitor the clinical status of individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who have undergone deep brain stimulation...
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