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Vanderbilt University investigators say in a new study that consuming the drug ecstasy – also called methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA – can lead to significant changes in the brain, including a chronic loss of the key neurotransmitter serotonin.
The chemical is largely responsible for our feelings ... |
8 December 2011
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For the first time ever, researchers at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, announce the existence of a clear, provable link between levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain and a person's ability to control their anger.
According to the conclusions of their newest study on the i... |
15 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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A group of researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (WUSM) and the University of Washington in Seattle (UWS) say that they manged to identify a new potential therapeutic target, that could be used to treat depression, anxiety and addiction.Experts arrived at this conclusion following s... |
11 August 2011
04:36 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that the concentrations of a specific neurotransmitter in the brain play a determining factor in the way we perceive intimacy in a couple we are observing at that point. Experts have determined that the way we view others' intimate r... |
16 April 2011
06:54 GMT |
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Investigators say that some of the most widely-used drugs against depression may also contribute to a thickening of the arteries in patients taking them. Some of these forms of medication include a class of compounds known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI).Past studies have already determined that the... |
4 April 2011
08:37 GMT |
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Experts say that the amount of serotonin we have in the brain at any given time plays an important role in dictating the way we view other people's relationships. This has implications for how we perceive other couples we see, in images, on TV, or on the street, the team behind the work says. The entire way we p... |
14 March 2011
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Researchers analyzing the connection between genetics and depression have recently made a discovery that challenges recent findings, but lends additional credence to an earlier theory. It would appear that genes do play a critical role in underlying people's susceptibility to experiencing depression.With this ne... |
5 January 2011
04:45 GMT |
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In an interesting turn of events, scientists have determined that taking antidepressants tends to change the personalities of patients, but they say that the changes are probably for the best. The investigation has relied on studying a number of medications that are widely used to treat depression these days. The gro... |
8 December 2009
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According to a new set of scientific studies, the lower portions of the human digestive tract can be artificially stimulated to produce new neurons, a find that may lead to the development of new, groundbreaking treatments for a broad range of intestinal disorders. Details of the new study, conducted on unsuspecting ... |
5 August 2009
05:42 GMT |
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In laboratory conditions, researchers test various aspects of lab rats' behavior, in a bid to find parallels between their way of acting in certain situations and our own. Once this happens, they find an animal model for a certain human trait, various aspects of which they can analyze. In a recent investigation,... |
18 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The whole fad was started by a 2003 scientific study, which held that there must be a gene variant that made some people sail through life all depressed and sad, while others did so without any kind of second thoughts, and always enjoying the moment. The theory seemed solid, because it would have explained some diffe... |
17 June 2009
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Researchers believe they might have discovered the element that triggers the formation of massive locust swarms that pose an incredible threat to crops and plantations worldwide. Upon analyzing what makes single grasshoppers come together to form an enormous group, a team of scientists identified serotonin, the hormo... |
30 January 2009
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Sudden infant death syndrome, also known as cot death in certain areas of the world, is a condition in which infant children up to several months of age die without warning, although not suffering of any serious known diseases. Cot death is largely mysterious even today, since there is no clear indication to what is ... |
4 July 2008
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If you were among those who thought eating was only designed for the pleasure (or on the contrary, the extreme distress) of our digestive tract and our figures, think again - as a recent study has come up with a rather surprising conclusion. Eating, say scientists from the Cambridge University in Britain, can be the ... |
6 June 2008
07:07 GMT |
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Men and women are clearly different species. And this is more than just physical: it goes in all inner organs, including the brain, explaining behavioral differences but also the opposite desires, sensitivities, preferences...The brain is masculinized from the womb by testosterone (its lack determines the feminizatio... |
16 February 2008
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Just a month after the attack of an escaped tigress at San Francisco ended with the death of three teenagers, a new research published in the journal "Brain, Behavior, and Immunity," shows that cats become enraged exactly the same way as humans.Enraged cats react by hissing, arching their back, retracting their ear... |
4 February 2008
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Healthy and cheap milk could come as the result of a new discovery: both in women and cows, the secretion of the milk is stopped by serotonin ("the feeling good" hormone). "Knowing the chemical responsible for inhibiting milk production could help us to improve milk yields in other mammals," said lead researcher Dr. ... |
9 October 2007
05:53 GMT |
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Experiencing orgasm and ejaculating is beyond a man's control, especially after a long abstinence. But when the woman does not even understand it all the time, there is a problem. Premature ejaculation (PE) represents a "persistent or recurrent onset of ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation before, on, or ... |
1 September 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Bread is said to break the waistline. But it seems that at the same time it can make you happy. A new research at the University of York and Hull York Medical School has established the connection between depression and low levels of folate (also called vitamin B9), which comes from vegetables (leaf vegetables, beans... |
28 June 2007
04:44 GMT |
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45 % of the young women have been found by a recent research to experience sexual dysfunction. Recently, Marrena Lindberg, 38, from Boston, comes with a sexual diet that could give women back their sexual health and pleasure. The Orgasmic Diet has four main hints, involved in enabling healthy sexual function in women... |
31 May 2007
15:41 GMT |
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Human brain chemistry and genetics are working hard to decode the mental substratum of the violence, from hooligan's behavior to extreme cases, like the recent most infamous school mass shooter in Virginia. "There is no doubt in my mind that if we could have examined his brain (the killer at Virginia Tech) we w... |
23 April 2007
04:49 GMT |
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Happiness could be found in the mud ...A mixed research team from the University of Bristol and University College London has discovered that bacteria found in the soil turned on a group of neurons that synthesize the brain chemical serotonin, named also "the happiness hormone". When the researchers treated lab mice ... |
10 April 2007
08:59 GMT |
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To be in a good mood, you surely need a good look...That's why you're victimized by the toughest diets.But a new research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology points carbohydrates poor diets (like Atkins) are more likely to give you a bad mood, as carbohydrates stimulate synthesis of the brain chemi... |
10 March 2007
06:01 GMT |
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