Advanced brain circuit-mapping technique reveals new anxiety drug target
Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears ...
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Addiction and the Brain
The choice to try a drug is a decision that that is centered in the executive portion of the brain, the prefrontal cortex. Once consumed, the drug delivers a powerful stimulus to the nucleus ...
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‘Smooth brain’ disorders may share a common cause — and potential treatment
A new Yale study, however, has identified a molecular mechanism that underlies some lissencephaly disorders — and a drug that prevents and reverses ... also have a thicker than usual cerebral cortex.
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Alzheimer’s Disease: The Cholinergic Revival
A pathway once considered fundamental in Alzheimer’s disease is being studied intensely again, and may soon result in safer, ...
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New ‘periodic table’ could unlock new insights into psychiatric disorders
Scientists at Stanford Medicine are advancing the understanding of schizophrenia by creating a "periodic table" for ...
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'Smooth brain' disorders may share a common cause—and a potential treatment
A new Yale study, however, has identified a molecular mechanism that underlies some lissencephaly disorders—and a drug that prevents ... a thicker than usual cerebral cortex.