ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed conditions in childhood, yet still one of the most misread once someone reaches adulthood. It's often reduced to a stereotype, the kid who can't sit still in class. That image misses most... Continue Reading →
Bipolar disorder is one of the most misunderstood conditions in mental health. It gets used casually ("the weather is so bipolar today"), which flattens what is actually a serious, lifelong mood disorder affecting roughly 2.8% of U.S. adults, and the... Continue Reading →
For decades, scientists have known that a single high dose of psilocybin — the psychoactive compound in "magic mushrooms", can leave people feeling better for weeks or months afterward. What they haven't been able to show is what changes in... Continue Reading →
We all know the feeling: a bad night's sleep leaves you foggy, irritable, and struggling to remember where you put your keys. But new research published in Neuropsychopharmacology suggests that sleep deprivation does something more specific and more troubling than... Continue Reading →
A newly engineered protein called iGluSnFR4 lets researchers watch glutamate — the brain's main chemical messenger — arrive at individual synapses in real time. It may change everything we know about how neurons decide to fire.
In a new study published in The Lancet Digital Health, scientists at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) have discovered that the brains of people who experience severe physical impairment after a stroke may reorganize themselves... Continue Reading →
A landmark paper published in The Lancet Psychiatry – the largest-ever review of the safety and efficacy of cannabinoids across a range of mental health conditions – found no evidence that medicinal cannabis is effective in treating anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study comes... Continue Reading →
A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. About one in 31 (3.2%) children in the... Continue Reading →
The researchers found that patients receiving the treatment experienced 75% less progression of the disease overall, compared to a matched cohort of people with Huntington’s who were not receiving the treatment. This is the first time a drug trial has... Continue Reading →