Study Links High-Fat Foods to Anxiety, Depression

Study Links High-Fat Foods to Anxiety, Depression

Metabolic and psychiatric disorders might be connected

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 9th, 2015
Researchers Are Turning to Psychedelics to Treat Anxiety, Addiction

Researchers Are Turning to Psychedelics to Treat Anxiety, Addiction

There have been several studies focusing on psychedelics

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • August 14th, 2015
Scientists Genetically Engineer Genius Mice

Scientists Genetically Engineer Genius Mice

Better yet, they did it by altering just one gene

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 11th, 2015
Scientists Figure Out a Way to Take the High Out of Cannabis

Scientists Figure Out a Way to Take the High Out of Cannabis

The goal was to separate the medical benefits of cannabis

Scientist: Nothing like Watching Cat Videos to Perk Up Your Mood

Scientist: Nothing like Watching Cat Videos to Perk Up Your Mood

Cat videos rule, scientific investigation concludes

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • May 28th, 2015
Psychedelics Could Help Treat Psychiatric Disorders, Researcher Says

Psychedelics Could Help Treat Psychiatric Disorders, Researcher Says

Anxiety and OCD are among the disorders they could treat

Scientists Trick Volunteers into Thinking They Have an Invisible Body

Scientists Trick Volunteers into Thinking They Have an Invisible Body

Study details how, simply by toying with their brain, researchers made 125 volunteers think that they were invisible

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • April 22nd, 2015
Here's What Happens Inside Your Brain When You Try to Quit Smoking

Here's What Happens Inside Your Brain When You Try to Quit Smoking

Investigation reveals the brain circuitry that causes people trying to quit smoking to experience anxiety

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • March 27th, 2015
High-Fat Foods Make the Brain Swell Up and Affect Memory, Study Finds

High-Fat Foods Make the Brain Swell Up and Affect Memory, Study Finds

Researchers find evidence pizza and other high-fat foods affect not just people's waistline but also their brain

If You Bite Your Nails, You Might Be a Perfectionist

If You Bite Your Nails, You Might Be a Perfectionist

The same is true about guys and gals who pick at their skin or pull their hair, researchers argue in a new study

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 1st, 2014
Energy Drinks Can Cause Serious Heart Trouble, Study Finds

Energy Drinks Can Cause Serious Heart Trouble, Study Finds

Evidence indicates that energy drinks can also cause psychiatric and neurological symptoms

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • May 1st, 2014
Yoga Found to Reduce Anxiety, Depression Risk in Pregnant Women

Yoga Found to Reduce Anxiety, Depression Risk in Pregnant Women

Stress during pregnancy has been linked to several complications, researchers say

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 31st, 2014
Early-Life Stress Disturbs Social Behaviors Later in Life

Early-Life Stress Disturbs Social Behaviors Later in Life

Anxiety and aggression increased in mice that were stressed early on

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 12th, 2014
How Marijuana Relieves Anxiety

How Marijuana Relieves Anxiety

Study on mice reveals the brain mechanisms involved

How to Curb the Childhood Obesity Epidemic

How to Curb the Childhood Obesity Epidemic

New research proposes interesting solution to this problem

Work Productivity Lowered by Mental Distress

Work Productivity Lowered by Mental Distress

Scientists finally establish quantifiable link between the two

New Drug Can Erase Bad Memories

New Drug Can Erase Bad Memories

The chemical demonstrated its capabilities in a study conducted on mice

 
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