The brain disease model of addiction has dominated public and scientific discourse on addiction (termed substance use disorder [SUD] in the DSM-5) over the past 3 decades. The model framed addiction ...

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los ...

Scientists at UBC have discovered a new type of brain cell, called ovoid cells, which play a key role in object recognition memory. This breakthrough could lead to new treatments for memory-related ...

Source: Getty Images At an early stage, basal cell carcinoma is small and confined, and usually can be cured. When the cancer gets larger and grows deeper in the skin or spreads to other organs ...

The communication system between your gut and brain is called the gut-brain axis. They’re connected both physically and biochemically in a number of different ways. They may even influence each ...

A look under the eyelids showed them that more happens in the brain during sleep than was previously assumed. Our eyes are typically closed when we sleep. However, there is a flurry of activity ...

Figure 1 shows the block diagram of the proposed multi-echo ... This model includes the general structures of the human brain such as gray matter (GM), white matter (WM), basal ganglia and midbrain ...

Objectives To measure iron accumulation in the basal ganglia in Huntington's disease (HD) using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), and to ascertain its relevance in terms of clinical and ...

The authors have advanced beyond the classical neural network model, which incorporates the prefrontal cortex and basal ... ganglia, introduced an adaptive chunking strategy, and proposed a novel ...

You love from the depths of your ventral tegmental area, your hypothalamus, your nucleus accumbens, and other vital areas of the brain. In the last two decades, scientists have joined the throngs of ...