Scented sleep can wash your fears away

11:35 24 October 2012 by Sara Reardon

Sleeping helps us reset our brains and calm our emotions. Perhaps it can do more, though: if sleepers are exposed to odours they associate with bad memories, it appears they can lose the fear those memories bring.

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Scientists Say Blood Test Can Tell Difference Between Depression, Anxiety in Teens
By Kathleen Doheny


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Retrospective analysis shows hallucinogenic drug helped problem drinkers


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Oxford University last week announced research suggesting that playing the computer game Tetris reduces flashbacks to trauma. Tetris was found to be far more effective than playing a quiz game. Players weren't just being distracted from unpleasant memories; the falling-blocks game has a beneficial effect. The researchers suggest it could lead to a ( Read more... )

Examiner.com: Science does not take the summer off at Wayne State University--research roundup for July 11-18
By Vince Lamb, Detroit Science News Examiner

Summer may be the time for family vacations or enjoying the hot, sunny days for most of us, but for the researchers at Wayne State University, it is a time to get things done. This past week, the ( Read more... )

Why Symptoms of Schizophrenia Emerge in Young Adulthood
                  (Feb. 26, 2010) - In reports of two new studies, researchers led by Johns Hopkins say they have identified the mechanisms rooted in two anatomical brain abnormalities that may explain the onset of schizophrenia and the reason symptoms don't develop until young adulthood. Both ( Read more... )

Simon Fraser University researchers have found that autism and schizophrenia are both caused by faults in the same set of genes, raising hopes that an effective test or treatment for one may be adapted for use on the other.The finding is a radical departure from conventional medical thinking about the two disorders as separate and distinct ( Read more... )

A breakthrough discovery by scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, may lead to a new treatment for Alzheimer's Disease that actually removes amyloid plaques - considered a hallmark of the disease - from patients' brains.

This discovery, published online in The FASEB Journal, is based on the unexpected finding that when the brain's ( Read more... )

They Say: Baby's Cry a 'Natural High' For Some, Disgust for Others

crying baby natural high 300x199 They Say: Babys Cry a Natural High For Some, Disgust for OthersA new study in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology found that some moms get a natural high when they hear their baby's cry. For others, however, the cry triggers a part of the brain that ( Read more... )