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(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) PHILADELPHIA, June 17 -- The University of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: Mark G. Allen has been named the inaugural scientific director of the University of Pennsylvania's Krishna ...

JAMA. 2013;309(20):2087. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.5626. Text Size: A A A Extract A new federally funded big science project will probe the inner workings of the brain. The initiative, announced by President Obama in April, will be funded by the Defense ...

A disastrous brain operation left Henry Molaison forever stuck in the same moment. But his amnesia proved a gift to science. I first met Henry Molaison more than half a century ago, during the spring of my third year in graduate school. I have ...

The flat out rejection of DSM-5 by National Institute of Mental Health is a sad moment for mental health and an unsafe one for our patients. The APA and NIMH are both letting us down, failing to be safe custodians for the mental health needs of our ...

The American Psychiatric Association, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the British Psychological Society have all taken their eye off the ball. The potential for exciting neuroscience findings in the future should not distract us from ...

Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The brain's repute took a big hit in 1997 when an IBM supercomputer defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov in a match reported around the world. But, in the second round, the brain is back. A ...

In the April 25 issue of Cell, the scientists, led by researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College, the Broad Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of Trento in Italy, dub this process punctuated cancer evolution, akin to the ...

You can buy a brain-stimulator today for 250 bucks. Or you can make one yourself, with a couple electrodes and a 9-watt battery to run current through your skull. Online retailers from Germany to Canada want you to buy one. But should you? Doctors ...

An improvement in the mental states of people suffering from chronic pain could possibly be taken care of by transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS). In 2002 a UCLA group led by Alexander Bystritsky noticed beneficial side effects in psychiatric ...