The principal investigator of the larger project is Dr. Subhash Pandey in the Department of Psychiatry at U.I.C. The overall goal of that project…
There hasn’t been great success with medication on reducing a stress response. I think antidepressants are helpful for depression but not necessarily a stress…
Sometimes, in a different context or appraisal situation, stress is beneficial by helping the brain deal with the stressors that come along. We’ve had…
There are questionnaires, which probably work as good as, if not better than, medical tests. The medical tests only examine cortisol in the blood,…
When I say microbiota, these are the bacteria, viruses, fungi and all the critters that live in our gastrointestinal tract and everywhere: in the…
Even before that happens, many people who believe they are at risk will go to their family doctor or a memory specialist to let…
What we know already is remarkable, compared to 10 years before, in neuroscience, clinical neuroscience and Alzheimer’s disease. There have been a lot of…
Whether you need antidepressants or not is a topic that should be discussed with your medical professional. There are also many medications available depending…
In our study, we wanted to see if we could predict how fast our brain ages or how fast our cognitive function can decline…
A lot of the human research that’s been ongoing for the last twenty or so years, looking at psilocybin specifically for healthy people as…
The jury is still out on that, and there’s a couple different approaches here. One that has been gaining a lot of notoriety lately…
In the early stage it is extremely difficult to make an accurate diagnosis because so many symptoms can overlap between different dementias, but also…
Cyndy Feasel, the widow of a former NFL player, says that she believes her husband Grant’s struggle with alcoholism triggered his depression, agitation and…
Darya Gaysina, Ph.D., a developmental psychologist from the University of Sussex, analyzed 34 studies on the connection between brain aging and depression. She found…
A new study found that PTSD increases dementia risk by 61 percent — findings that are especially pertinent for soldiers and veterans, and new…