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- Rare Deficit Maps Thinking Circuitry
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September 1, 2004
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Using brain imaging, neuroscientists at the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have pinpointed the site of a defect in a brain circuit associated with a specific thinking deficit.
- Schizophrenia Gene Variant Linked to Risk Traits
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August 11, 2004
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Researchers at the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have identified a relationship between a small section of one gene, the brain chemical messenger glutamate, and a collection of traits known to be associated with schizophrenia.
- Brain’s Reward Circuitry Revealed in Procrastinating Primates
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August 10, 2004
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Using a new molecular genetic technique, scientists have turned procrastinating primates into workaholics by temporarily suppressing a gene in a brain circuit involved in reward learning.
- Depression Traced to Overactive Brain Circuit
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August 2, 2004
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A brain imaging study by the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has found that an emotion-regulating brain circuit is overactive in people prone to depression—even when they are not depressed.
- Imaging Study Shows Brain Maturing
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May 17, 2004
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The brain’s center of reasoning and problem solving is among the last to mature, a new study graphically reveals.
- Research to Test Treatment of Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
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May 6, 2004
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a four-year, $9 million contract to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and five other academic medical centers to create a network of Treatment Units for Research on Neurocognition and Schizophrenia (TURNS).
- Brain Signal Predicts Working Memory Prowess
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April 16, 2004
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Some people are better than others at remembering what they have just seen—holding mental pictures in mind from moment to moment.
- Making Sense of the Brain's Mind-Boggling Complexity
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April 16, 2004
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Leading scientists in integrating and visualizing the explosion of information about the brain will convene at a conference commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Human Brain Project (HBP).
- Monkey Talk, Human Speech Share Left-Brain Processing
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January 29, 2004
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Scans have pinpointed circuits in the monkey brain that could be precursors of those in humans for speech and language.
- Emotion-Regulating Protein Lacking in Panic Disorder
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January 20, 2004
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Three brain areas of panic disorder patients are lacking in a key component of a chemical messenger system that regulates emotion, researchers at the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered.
