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(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241209203738.htm) Researchers 'see' vulnerability to gaming addiction in the adolescent brain
Dec 9th 2024, 20:37

Researchers found that adolescents with more symptoms of gaming addiction showed lower brain activity in the region involved in decision-making and reward processing; this blunted response to reward anticipation is associated with higher symptoms of gaming addiction over time and suggests that reduced sensitivity to rewards, in particular non-gaming rewards, may play a role in problematic gaming.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241209122604.htm) Study helps solve mystery between repeated head impacts in sports and location of brain degeneration in CTE
Dec 9th 2024, 12:26

A new study is helping solve the mystery as to why the brain shrinks in a unique pattern, known as atrophy, in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). This research provides novel evidence that cumulative repetitive head impacts are driving the specific patterns of brain degeneration found at the base of the folds of the surface of the brain, known as the cortical sulcus.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241205142850.htm) A blueprint for the brain's circadian clock
Dec 5th 2024, 14:28

Circadian clocks control physiological processes and behavior in virtually all living organisms. Now an international research team has created a detailed map of the internal clock in the brain of the fruit fly.

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