BOSTON – A study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology neuroscientists has shown that the brain circuit controls how memories are linked with positive or negative emotions – and that the emotional association with specific memories could be reversed by using optogenetics. Optogenetics is a technique that manipulates nerve cells by using light. It was pioneered […]
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — Elderly patients with more active thyroid glands may be at a greater risk for depression, according to research. The study by researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, appeared online in February prior to print in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). The thyroid
Dr. Peter Swanz, ND My wife’s grandmother passed away on Christmas Eve morning. It was sudden although not unexpected. Grandma Jean had been in a nursing home with advanced alzheimer’s for the past couple of years. Her memory had declined to the point where every visit was heart wrenching because there was no recollection of
A new study on serotonin leads scientists to believe the substance may not have as great an impact on depression as previously thought – a discovery that may alter the way depression treatments will be formulated. The study by Donald Kuhn and colleagues at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center and Wayne State University
