SAN FRANCISCO: Noninvasive electrical brain stimulation offers hope as a potential new tool to ease the symptoms of certain diseases and mental illnesses, but neuroscientists are warning against self-administered brain stimulation by so-called “do-it-yourself” (DIY) users.

“There is much about noninvasive brain stimulation that remains unknown,” Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO: Distinguishing between psychiatric disorders and AD is crucial because of the differing prognosis and management of the two.

This is the first study to examine the role of CSF biomarkers in the diagnosis of patients with cognitive symptoms and psychiatric disorders in routine daily Read More »

PHILADELPHIA: Researchers have created a genetic risk score which could indicate whether healthy young adults are likely to get the disease.

The study found a link between a set of high-risk genes, the size of the hippocampus – the brain’s memory centre – and developing Read More »

DALLAS: How they cradled fellow soldiers and sailors as they died. Or detonated explosives in areas where innocent youngsters lived, then collected bodies in the aftermath – sometimes of children the same age as their own.

One by one, the memories came tumbling out, day Read More »