Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much-discussed neurotransmitter really does to our brains. Our brains are ...
Dopamine is often casually labelled the brain's "pleasure chemical", but neuroscientists say this popular idea misses the point, and may even explain why people so often feel conflicted, restless and ...
A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for encephalitis (brain inflammation), caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) does not ...
The largest study of its kind from the Boston University CTE Center reveals that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) ...
Dementia risk depended on CTE severity ...
Dear M.L.J.: WE is caused by a lack of thiamine (vitamin B1). (I had never heard the term "wet brain" to describe this ...
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis, caused by HSV types 1 and 2, is the most common sporadic viral encephalitis worldwide, with an annual incidence of around 2·2–4·6 per million people.1 Before ...
Forget reducing wrinkles and fighting hair loss. A new study suggests a treatment already popular in the US for skin health, ...