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Anchor lead: How useful is transcranial magnetic stimulation for treating depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS for short, utilizes magnetic waves to stimulate a specific area of the brain and may be helpful in treating depression, with …
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Anchor lead: Can a finding in gambling monkeys help people control risk taking behavior? Elizabeth Tracey reports A specific brain area has been shown to impact a trained monkey’s risk-taking choices, a Johns Hopkins study reveals. Veit Stuphorn, a neuroscientist …
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Anchor lead: A new study in monkeys helps understand risk taking behavior, Elizabeth Tracey reports Training monkeys to gamble has identified a new brain region involved in the actual process of choosing to take risks, researchers at Johns Hopkins have …
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Anchor lead: Are cured meats in the diet associated with mental illness? Elizabeth Tracey reports People hospitalized with an episode of mania, one feature of bipolar disorder, ate more cured meats than those without the illness, a recent study by …
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Anchor lead: Cured meats may be linked to the mania phase of bipolar disorder, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who are hospitalized for mania are more than three times as likely to have consumed cured meats, which are high in …
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Anchor lead: When someone gets peer support, avoiding rehospitalization is more likely, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who have been hospitalized for mental illness and had the support of someone in the community who had already had such an experience were …
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Anchor lead: What is the impact of high profile suicides? Elizabeth Tracey reports Suicide can be contagious, research into rates of spates of suicide show. Karen Swartz, a psychiatrist and depression expert at Johns Hopkins, says when a prominent and …
