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Blaming our genes: The heritability of behavior

Both genetics and environment influence complex behaviors like mood and personality.
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How Inflammation Affects Your Mental Health

Chronic inflammation significantly contributes to mental health disorders, highlighting a need for alternative treatment approaches.

The Dark Side of Light: How Nighttime Light Exposure Harms Your Mental Health

Excessive nighttime light exposure is linked to a higher risk of psychiatric disorders, while daytime light exposure is associated with a reduced risk.

Anosognosia: What happens when a person is unaware of their mental disorder?

Many individuals with mental health issues do not recognize their disorders, impacting families and relationships.

Webinar: Neuroimmune Mechanisms Linking Inflammatory Processes with Cognitive, Social, and Affective Functions

Immune system activation, particularly neuroinflammation, impacts cognitive and emotional processing in the brain.

A Stress Neurobiologist Reveals the Key Thing We Are All Missing For Good Mental Health

Microbes in our gut can affect mood and mental health.
Transplanting microbes can cause symptoms in animals similar to those in people with psychiatric disorders.

How Inflammation Affects Your Mental Health

Chronic inflammation significantly contributes to mental health disorders, highlighting a need for alternative treatment approaches.

The Dark Side of Light: How Nighttime Light Exposure Harms Your Mental Health

Excessive nighttime light exposure is linked to a higher risk of psychiatric disorders, while daytime light exposure is associated with a reduced risk.

Anosognosia: What happens when a person is unaware of their mental disorder?

Many individuals with mental health issues do not recognize their disorders, impacting families and relationships.

Webinar: Neuroimmune Mechanisms Linking Inflammatory Processes with Cognitive, Social, and Affective Functions

Immune system activation, particularly neuroinflammation, impacts cognitive and emotional processing in the brain.

A Stress Neurobiologist Reveals the Key Thing We Are All Missing For Good Mental Health

Microbes in our gut can affect mood and mental health.
Transplanting microbes can cause symptoms in animals similar to those in people with psychiatric disorders.
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Surgeons remove 2.5-inch hairball from teen with rare Rapunzel syndrome

Trichobezoars, especially Rapunzel syndrome, pose serious health risks and are often linked to psychiatric conditions like trichotillomania.

The Truth About Using Psilocybin For Depression

Psilocybin shows potential in treating depression with noted improvements in social functioning and life meaning, comparable to traditional antidepressants.

Ones to watch: young neuroscientists on the rise

Early intervention in youth can significantly impact long-term psychiatric health, especially in severe disorders like schizophrenia.
A multiscale modeling approach in neuroscience can predict and simulate brain development and its relation to psychiatric conditions.
#ancient-viruses

Depression, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Are Linked with Ancient Viral DNA in Our Genome

Some ancient viral DNA sequences in the human genome may be linked to susceptibility to psychiatric disorders.

People with ancient viruses in their DNA are more prone to depression

Ancient viruses (HERVs) in human DNA linked to psychiatric disorders like depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder may offer new insights and potential treatments.

Depression, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Are Linked with Ancient Viral DNA in Our Genome

Some ancient viral DNA sequences in the human genome may be linked to susceptibility to psychiatric disorders.

People with ancient viruses in their DNA are more prone to depression

Ancient viruses (HERVs) in human DNA linked to psychiatric disorders like depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder may offer new insights and potential treatments.
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Parents are suing these video game giants over addiction fears

The lawsuit against video game companies claims harm caused by video game addiction, including brain damage and psychiatric disorders in children.

A Fresh Approach to a Crisis

Excessive focus on mental health discussions may lead young people to interpret mild suffering as psychiatric disorders, potentially worsening their problems.

Peter McGuffin obituary

Importance of gene-environment interplay in psychiatric disorders
Challenging assumptions about depression and genetic risk

Johns Hopkins researchers make progress in developing blood test for psychiatric disorders

Johns Hopkins researchers are developing a blood test to detect brain changes associated with psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Extracellular vesicles, which contain mRNA, can provide information about what's happening inside the brain and could be used as a biological marker for detecting mental health issues.

Cannabis for Psychiatric Disorders? Experts Weigh In

There is a growing belief that cannabis could be a good treatment for psychiatric disorders.
There is a lack of clinical trials and research on the use of cannabis as a treatment for psychiatric disorders.

This Party Drug Completely Restructures The Brain's Dopamine System, Scientists Find

Ketamine is being studied for its potential to treat psychiatric disorders by rewiring and healing the brain through its effects on neural connectivity.
Researchers at Columbia University found that after 10 days of repeated ketamine administration, widespread structural changes occurred in the brain's dopamine system.

Deadly Paris Knife Attack Revives Terrorism Concerns

A German tourist was killed in a knife and hammer attack in central Paris.
The suspect has serious psychiatric disorders and expressed anger over the death of Muslims worldwide.
#gene-expression

Ancient Viruses Left Their DNA In Humans - And They Could Help Trigger These Common Diseases

8% of human DNA is ancient viral sequences, some impacting psychiatric disorders, challenging previous views of 'junk DNA'. HERVs regulate gene expression and produce functional molecules.

Is Ancient Viral DNA To Blame For Depression, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder?

8% of human DNA is ancient viral DNA, called human endogenous retroviruses (Hervs), influencing psychiatric disorders.

Ancient Viruses Left Their DNA In Humans - And They Could Help Trigger These Common Diseases

8% of human DNA is ancient viral sequences, some impacting psychiatric disorders, challenging previous views of 'junk DNA'. HERVs regulate gene expression and produce functional molecules.

Is Ancient Viral DNA To Blame For Depression, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder?

8% of human DNA is ancient viral DNA, called human endogenous retroviruses (Hervs), influencing psychiatric disorders.
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