Breakups Can Be Mapped in the Brain
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NEW YORK  - Women who are distraught after  breaking up with a romantic partner show brain changes that are  not seen in women less upset by a romantic rift, researchers  report.
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Scientists say they have identified an area of the brain that may explain why some people are obsessed with collecting items.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to dampen down the impact of bad memories in people's brains.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health use a video game to help determine the link between the hippocampus and depression. In Game|Life.
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After a stroke, the brain tries to reorganize itself. However, sometimes this process goes awry, leaving one woman to feel sounds on her skin.
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Microscopic imaging techniques have enabled scientists to delve deep into the brain of a living animal to see how visual circuitry works.
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Scientists say they understand more about what happens in the brains of former drug addicts when they crave cocaine.
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NEW YORK  - The brain's response to another  person's body language may help explain why humans are quite  efficient at fleeing from danger, according to researchers.
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The areas of the brain involved in learning fears have been known, but new research now identifies the areas involved in extinguishing those fears.
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Brain scans reveal how the brain gets "tired and over-emotional" when someone is deprived of sleep.
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Scientists say they have identified faulty brain waves that may explain the symptoms of schizophrenia. Cells in the brain that exchange information about the environment and form mental impressions were less active in people with schizophrenia.
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The same structure of the brain that makes people fearful is also critical in helping overcome fears, researchers have found in a study that may help guide new treatments of some mental illnesses.
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BOSTON- Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have compiled the first atlas showing the locations of crucial gene regulators, or switches that determine how different parts of the brain develop - and, in some cases, develop abnormally or
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New research shows how a part of the brain helps us recognize fear in other people's facial expressions. The discovery may one day aid people with autism.
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NEW YORK  - People who suffer from what was once called "hysteria" show altered patterns of brain activity connected to their symptoms, researchers reported Monday.
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A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.
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Electric shock experiments on humans have shown that brain regions linked to fear responses are also highly activated when fears are unlearned, a finding that provides insight into developing drugs for anxiety and other fear disorders.