Brain Connectivity Changes Linked to Auditory Hallucinations

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Credit: rawpixel Auditory hallucinations, a phenomenon in which people hear voices or other sounds in the absence of external stimuli, are a feature of schizophrenia and some other neuropsychiatric disorders. How they arise in the brain has been unclear, but new research indicates that altered brain connectivity between sensory […]

Auditory hallucinations rooted in aberrant brain connectivity

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Depiction of a working theory on the thalamic circuitry that is involved in psychotic symptoms in individuals with the genetic disorder, 22q11 deletion syndrome. Credit: Elsevier Auditory hallucinations, a phenomenon in which people hear voices or other sounds in the absence of external stimuli, are a feature of schizophrenia […]

Pandemic absence might make hearts grow fonder, science suggests

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When my daughter’s university abruptly switched to online learning in March, she said goodbye to her campus for an unknown length of time and to a new friend who had rapidly become important. This forced separation could have spelled the end of their friendship, but so far time and […]

A Neural Basis for Longing: Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder and the Nucleus Accumbens Activate

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Prairie voles are among about 5% of mammalian species, including humans, which bond for life. Credit: Illustration courtesy Zoe Donaldson/ CU Boulder When it comes to forming a lasting bond, our longing for a partner may be as important as–if not more important than–how we react when we’re with […]

A Neural Basis for Longing: Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder and the Nucleus Accumbens Activate

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Prairie voles are among about 5% of mammalian species, including humans, which bond for life. Credit: Illustration courtesy Zoe Donaldson/ CU Boulder When it comes to forming a lasting bond, our longing for a partner may be as important as–if not more important than–how we react when we’re with […]

Physical distancing requires us to learn to cope with the absence of touch

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The COVID-19 pandemic and its physical-distancing requirements have denied Ms. Cooley and many others – a woman seen here on April 25, 2020 speaking to her mother through a window outside Orchard Villa Retirement Residence in Pickering, Ont. – of what some researchers regard as a basic human need: […]

New study uncovers the neurology behind how kind and generous you are

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Shutterstock Virtually every society rests its principles on the basic constructs of good and evil. The tendency presumes that one denotes the absence of the other when the reality actually exists i n a clinical gray area. As concluded by a pioneering new paper published in the February edition […]

Fiber crossings ahead: Key enzymes affecting nervous system pathway identified

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IMAGE: University of Tsukuba researchers found the absence of enzymes key for corticospinal tract guidance, Sulf1 and Sulf2, results in abnormal anatomy of the corticospinal tract and impairments in fine motor… view more Tsukuba, Japan – Voluntary motor movements rely on the corticospinal tract (CST)–a group of neuronal fibers […]