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MRI study reveals structural brain changes in children with restrictive eating disorders

In the last decade, the incidence of restrictive eating disorders in children, like anorexia-nervosa and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorders (ARFID), has doubled. These disorders have severe consequences for growing ...

Medical research

How the brain increases blood flow on demand

All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions.

Neuroscience

Want to boost your brain as you age? Music might be the answer

Long-term musical training may mitigate the age-related decline in speech perception by enhancing cognitive reserve, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Claude Alain from the Baycrest Academy for Research and ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

How stress strengthens group bonds—and fuels intergroup conflict

Why do violent conflicts between groups persist—even when all sides suffer as a result? Researchers from psychology and medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have now examined the dual effect of physiological ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How war trauma affects Vietnamese Americans' brain health

As the United States reflects on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War this year, researchers from UC Davis and UC San Francisco have uncovered major insight into the trauma and resilience of Vietnamese Americans ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Researchers find 'forever chemicals' impact the developing male brain

"Forever chemicals" or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been widely used in consumer and industrial products for the better part of a century, but do not break down in the natural environment. One PFAS, perfluorohexanoic ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Virtual forest bathing found to alleviate stress

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) has demonstrated in a recent pilot study that virtual forest bathing can improve emotional ...

Neuroscience

Babies' poor vision may help organize visual brain pathways

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved in spatial localization and ...

Health

The battle against multiple sclerosis

While there is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis, researchers continue to discover clues to give a better understanding of how MS happens and how best to treat it.