Want to avoid the holiday blues? New report suggests skipping the sweet treats

LAWRENCE — If you’re prone to depression, this holiday season you might want to say “bah humbug” to offers of sugar plum pudding, caramel corn and chocolate babka. A new study from a team of clinical psychologists at the University…

Want to avoid the holiday blues? New report suggests skipping the sweet treats

LAWRENCE — If you’re prone to depression, this holiday season you might want to say “bah humbug” to offers of sugar plum pudding, caramel corn and chocolate babka. A new study from a team of clinical psychologists at the University…

Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost’s broad impact in Alzheimer’s models

The sweeping extent to which increasing 40Hz “gamma” rhythm power in the brain can affect the pathology and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models has been surprising, even to the MIT neuroscientists who’ve pioneered the idea. So surprising, in…

Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost’s broad impact in Alzheimer’s models

The sweeping extent to which increasing 40Hz “gamma” rhythm power in the brain can affect the pathology and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models has been surprising, even to the MIT neuroscientists who’ve pioneered the idea. So surprising, in…

Common genetic link between autism and Tourette’s impairs brain communication

Lancaster University researchers have discovered, for the first time, how a genetic alteration that increases the risk of developing Autism and Tourette’s impacts on the brain. Their research also suggests that ketamine, or related drugs, may be a useful treatment…