Summary: Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered an overlooked neural circuit in the anterior hypothalamic nucleus (AHN) that dictates how past trauma primes the…
Category: mental health
Making Music May Rewire the Addicted Brain
Summary: A pilot neuroimaging study from Anglia Ruskin University reveals that music therapy directly modulates brain wave dynamics linked to emotional regulation and craving suppression in individuals recovering from drug…
Can Humor Treat Depression? – Neuroscience News
Summary: A comprehensive review of clinical psychology and neuroimaging research shows that while humor can build resilience and protect against depressive relapse, it often does more harm than good during…
Five Brain Profiles of Depression Identified
Summary: Researchers using magnetoencephalography (MEG) identified five distinct neurophysiological subtypes of major depressive disorder based on functional brain connectivity. The findings show that patients sharing the same clinical diagnosis can…
Nighttime Light Exposure Linked to Sleep Loss in Schizophrenia
Summary: A new study reveals that nighttime light exposure is strongly associated with objective sleep disruption in outpatients with schizophrenia, resulting in nearly an hour less total sleep per night.…
Early Stress Heightens Adult Anxiety
Summary: Researchers uncovered a fundamental epigenetic mechanism explaining how early-life adversity permanently alters the brain’s stress response networks. The study identified that childhood trauma increases levels of the enzyme SETD7…
Brain PET Scans Link Late-Onset Psychosis to Tau and Amyloid
Summary: A new study demonstrates that first-episode hallucinations and delusions appearing after age 40 are frequently driven by underlying neurodegenerative pathology. Using molecular positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, the team…
AI Models Analyze Children’s Speech to Predict Future Mental Health
Summary: Researchers demonstrated that natural language processing (NLP) models analyzing speech patterns in children aged 9 to 13 can predict the onset of mental health disorders six years later more…
