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Anti-obesity drug acts on brain's appetite control system
Posted in Medicine on 25th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
A drug that targets the appetite control system in the brain could bring about significant weight loss in people with clinical obesity.
Brain Stimulation can accelerate learning by 40%, could be common by 2023
Posted in Hardware on 24th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
Non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could increase performance of associative learning.
MDMA Advances Another Step As Tool to Treat PTSD
Posted in Science on 22nd Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) holds promise to once again become a therapeutic tool.
Psychedelic mushrooms may work magic on depression
Posted in Science on 14th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
'We have shown for the first time clear changes in brain activity in depressed people treated with psilocybin after failing to respond to conventional treatments'
This supercomputer can detect brain tumours
Posted in Medicine on 10th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
Scientists have trained a supercomputer to automatically detect brain tumours from scans with 90% accuracy.