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(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240711132131.htm) Researchers uncover brain region's role in hearing and learning
Jul 11th 2024, 13:21

The human brain is remarkably adept at adjusting what we hear based on contexts, like our current environment or priorities, but it's still unknown how exactly the brain helps us detect, filter and react to sounds. Now, biologists are a step closer to solving that mystery. Using an animal model, the researchers found that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a brain region associated with decision-making but not typically linked to hearing, plays a central role in helping the auditory cortex (a primary hearing center of the brain) adapt to changing contexts or situations.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240710195342.htm) Loneliness increases risk of age-related memory loss
Jul 10th 2024, 19:53

About a third of Canadians feel lonely, and a study shows it has a greater negative impact on memory than even social isolation, though both present a significant risk to the aging population.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240710130850.htm) New form of repetitive magnetic brain stimulation reduces treatment time for bipolar disorder
Jul 10th 2024, 13:08

A potential new treatment for bipolar disorder (BP) that significantly shortens treatment time has emerged, following a randomized clinical trial using accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation (aiTBS). While current theta burst stimulation (TBS) treatments can take between four and six weeks to administer, this new technique reduces treatment to five days.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240709184237.htm) Researchers identify brain region involved in oxycodone relapse
Jul 9th 2024, 18:42

Even years after they have recovered, a person who once struggled with alcohol or opioid addiction can relapse--and that relapse is more likely to occur during particularly stressful times. Now, scientists have identified an area of the brain that plays a key role in stress-induced oxycodone relapse. Their findings explain why the drug suvorexant, which they previously found to reduce alcohol and oxycodone relapse when administered orally, works so well.

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