Emily Underwood
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Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings
Studies of interoception challenge distinctions between disorders of the brain and body—and may hold clues to the basis of consciousness → Read More
Study challenges idea that autism is caused by an overly masculine brain
Work finds no evidence for “extreme male brain” hypothesis → Read More
Yes, Post-Vacation Burnout Is a Thing
If a holiday is supposed to leave you refreshed and restored, why are you often more tired than when you left? → Read More
Listening to ketamine
The fast-acting drug offers a new way to treat depression and fathom its origins. Recent approval of a nasal spray promises to expand access, but much remains unknown about long-term use and the potential for abuse. → Read More
Listening to ketamine
The fast-acting drug offers a new way to treat depression and fathom its origins. Recent approval of a nasal spray promises to expand access, but much remains unknown about long-term use and the potential for abuse. → Read More
Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit
Find could lead to new treatments for obesity, depression → Read More
Researchers grapple with the ethics of testing brain implants
Failed depression study highlights long-term challenges of invasive studies → Read More
Ultrasonic probe could detect stroke, brain damage in young babies
Device could eventually monitor infant brain function → Read More
A new study is changing how scientists think about Alzheimer’s disease
Focus on risk gene could illuminate the illness’s origins → Read More
Children of legally protected immigrants less likely to suffer mental illness
Threat of mom’s deportation drives anxiety, behavioral disorders in children → Read More
How your mind protects you against hallucinations
To maintain a grip on reality, the brain must question its expectations → Read More
Scientists discover a sixth sense on the tongue—for water
New study in mice sheds light on how animals stay hydrated → Read More
Brain pollution: Evidence builds that dirty air causes Alzheimer’s, dementia
The microscopic particles sifting from freeways and power plants don’t just harm your heart and lungs. They may also attack your brain. → Read More
Watch these ticklish rats laugh and jump for joy
New study pinpoints “tickle center” in the brains of rodents → Read More
The bigger your brain, the longer you yawn
Study of various animal species sheds light on purpose of yawning → Read More
Can brain scans reveal concussion-linked disease?
Last week, at the Sixth Annual Traumatic Brain Injury Conference in Arlington, Virginia, neurologist Samuel Gandy presented a former National Football League player's positron emission tomography (PET) scan as the "most dramatic" evidence yet of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a living person. "I've never seen anything like it," he said of the scan, which used a PET tracer called T807… → Read More
Three reasons humanitarian aid fails
*For our full coverage of AAAS 2016, check out our meeting page. WASHINGTON, D.C.—In 2008, Indiana University, Bloomington, geographer Elizabeth Dunn went to Georgia on a Fulbright grant to conduct a yearlong research project on food and agriculture. By the time she arrived, however, armed conflict between Georgia and Russia had driven many of her subjects—local farming families—into large… → Read More
Growing use of neurobiological evidence in criminal trials, new study finds
In 2008, in El Cajon, California, 30-year-old John Nicholas Gunther bludgeoned his mother to death with a metal pipe, and then stole $1378 in cash, her credit cards, a DVD/VCR player, and some prescription painkillers. At trial, Gunther admitted to the killing, but argued that his conviction should be reduced to second-degree murder because he had not acted with premeditation. A clinical… → Read More
Feature: Will antibodies finally put an end to migraines?
Targeting a peptide that may be the long-sought headache trigger, four firms are racing to develop the first truly effective migraine treatment → Read More
Reality check: Taking antidepressants while pregnant unlikely to double autism risk in kids
Alarming claim based on shaky evidence, experts say → Read More