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High sugar consumption may blunt your ability to sense sweetness
A high sugar diet dulls sweet taste. In a rat study, a long-term high-sugar diet cut the sweetness signal from tongue to brain by…
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Your Diet can Influence your Mental Health
Diet affects mental health, and nutritional psychiatry is built on that fact. Changing what people eat can ease stress, anxiety and depression. It often…
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Problematic news consumption leads to a decline in mental and physical health
Problematic news consumption harms both mental and physical health. In an online survey of 1,100 US adults, 73.6% of those with severely problematic news…
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LSU Health New Orleans Uncovers Key Piece to the Alzheimer’s Puzzle
Gut bacteria may help drive Alzheimer’s disease. LSU Health New Orleans researchers found a neurotoxin (nerve poison) called BF-LPS. A common gut bacterium, Bacteroides…
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Severe Infection May Have A Long-term Influence On Mood, Causing Mood Disorders
Severe infection can cause lasting mood disorders. Sepsis is linked to a higher risk of anxiety, PTSD and other mental health problems. A new…
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Theta waves could be a new marker for emotional dysregulation
Theta waves could be a new marker for emotional dysregulation, which means trouble controlling your feelings. Researchers found they can track it through theta…
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Long-term use of antianxiety drugs may increase dementia’s risk
Long-term use of antianxiety drugs such as diazepam is linked to a higher risk of dementia. A mouse study traced how it happens. The…
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Adolescents living with substance abuse disorder are unlikely to grow out of it
Adolescent substance abuse disorder rarely fades on its own. A study followed people for 32 years. Teens who misused alcohol or drugs were more…
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Researchers identified a neurochemical responsible for greater satisfaction as we age
Oxytocin may explain why life satisfaction grows as we age. Most hormones drop with age. But a new study found older adults release more…
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Leading neurologists say that altered gut microbiota may increase the risk of alcohol addiction
Altered gut bacteria raise the risk of alcohol addiction by changing emotions and impulse control. At the FENS Forum 2022, brain doctors tied binge…