Anti-Smoking Pill May Help Curb Drinking

Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.intelihealth.com)

"A single pill appears to hold promise in curbing the urges to both smoke and drink, according to researchers trying to help people overcome addiction by targeting a pleasure center in the brain."

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Progressive and Interrelated Functional and Structural Evidence of Post-Onset Brain Reduction in Schizophrenia

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"Progressive brain abnormalities in schizophrenia remain controversial. Evidence of interrelated progressive functional impairment would buttress the case for structural progression. Mismatch negativity (MMN) is reduced in chronic but not first-hospitalized schizophrenia and may index progressive structural changes."

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Exercise science principles strengthen swallowing rehabilitation

MCGmcrowley submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.mcg.edu)

Just thinking about swallowing makes it harder to do.
Head and neck cancer, a stroke, brain tumor, brain injury or even a tracheostomy tube and mechanical ventilation needed to sustain life can make it impossible.

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White Matter Matters in Schizophrenia

medal submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.sciam.com)

"Scientists have suspected for more than two decades that schizophrenia is linked to defects in the brain's white matter. They could not tell, however, whether changes in the information-transmitting region of the brain detected by brain scans or autopsies were the cause or the symptoms of the illness.”

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Dynamic functional connectivity

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"Recent studies show that anatomical and functional brain networks exhibit similar small-world properties. However, the networks that are compared often differ in what the nodes represent (e.g. sensors or brain areas), what kind of connectivity is measured, and what temporal and spatial scales are probed

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