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New brain mechanism prioritizes surprises

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Researchers have found how the brain's neocortex and thalamus work together to detect when things don't match expectations.

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Psychology

Predictable patterns in mental disorder symptoms

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Mental disorders like depression and anxiety have many symptoms, people with the same diagnosis can show different combinations of symptoms.

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Health

Low-intensity exercise connected to decreased depression

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Physical activity and mental health complications.

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Health

Rare sleep disorder more common than believed

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Study on idiopathic hypersomnia prevalence and course.

Image showing The study findings suggest that when the proteins don’t bind properly, signaling among neurons, illustrated above, becomes imbalanced, which can lead to related negative behavioral symptoms.
Health

Unexpected link between schizophrenia risk proteins

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Controlling fast-spiking neurons: Cytoskeleton-membrane interaction.

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Health

New tools based on AI can help diagnose schizophrenia

Pranjal Malewar

A language-based computational assay of conceptual disorganization in schizophrenia.

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Health

Scientists make significant strides in studying schizophrenia genes

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Studying how common genetic variants affect schizophrenia.

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Neuroscience

Cognitive function: The power of scent

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Olfactory enrichment improves memory and brain structure in older adults.

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Science

Researcher identifies a key strategy to combat disease linked to autism and schizophrenia

Dr. Prajakta Banik

By the time those symptoms are recognized, it’s long past the opportunity for a medical intervention.

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Health

Schizophrenia during pregnancy triples the risk of interpersonal violence

Pranjal Malewar

There are many opportunities for health care providers to intervene and prevent harm to these patients.

Deficits in the maturation of the gamma response to auditory stimulation
Science

Communication defect between brain areas is linked to the psychotic disorders

Pranjal Malewar

Communication defect in psychotic disorders.

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Science

Study links the breakdown in brain cell development and the risk of Schizophrenia

Pranjal Malewar

The study is a major step forward in the hunt for developmental origins of psychiatric disorders.

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Science

‘Dark Genome’ offers clues to treatment of Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Pranjal Malewar

The study opens up huge potential for new druggable targets.

Increasing levels of a potential disease factor results in additional brain cells (red) in a schizophrenia brain organoid. Image courtesy of Dr. Michael Notaras.
Science

3D mini-brains offer clues on origin of Schizophrenia

Pranjal Malewar

A fundamental discovery providing what we think is the first evidence in human tissue.

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AI & Machine Learning

New AI tool to predict psychotic illnesses

Pranjal Malewar

A longitudinal network analysis.

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Health

A class of drug can protect the IQ of people at risk for psychosis

Pranjal Malewar

The study opens up a new field of research and new hope for people affected by the microdeletion of chromosome 22.

Science

Tracing brain receptor linked to brain disorders

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan

A step towards a drug for schizophrenia like diseases.

Scientists recognize genes as master regulators in schizophrenia
Science

Scientists recognize genes as master regulators in schizophrenia

Amit Malewar

Finding may offer a key target for future treatments.

Brains of people at risk of psychosis exhibit a pattern that can help predict whether they will go on to develop full-fledged schizophrenia, a new Yale-led study shows.
Health

Scientists detected early warning signs of psychosis

Pranjal Malewar

Psychosis is a severe mental disorder in which thoughts and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. A new study by...

Scientists suggests ways to help mentally ill in Ghana’s prayer camps
Health

Scientists suggests ways to help mentally ill in Ghana’s prayer camps

Amit Malewar

Many individuals with schizophrenia in Ghana spend their days tied to dividers in supplication camps where they are tended to by profound healers and...

Research sheds light on the voices in our head
Science

Research sheds light on the voices in our head

Amit Malewar

Most of us are familiar with the experience of silently talking to ourselves in our head. Scientists called this phenomenon as inner speech. As...

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