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Biomarkers for psychiatric illness? Study gets researchers one step closer

September 25, 2024 by Mallory Locklear, Yale University A reproducible set of CAPs in the whole-brain rs-fMRI involve recurring mixed representations of canonical resting-state networks. Credit: PLOS Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002808A key challenge in the effort to link brain activity with behavior is that brain activity, measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), for instance,...

Common brain network for psychiatric illness discovered
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Common brain network for psychiatric illness discovered

by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and depression, affect nearly one in five adults in the United States and nearly half of patients diagnosed with a psychiatric illness also meet the criteria for a second. With so much overlap, researchers have begun to suspect that there may be one...

Scientists show how parasitic infection causes seizures, psychiatric illness for some
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Scientists show how parasitic infection causes seizures, psychiatric illness for some

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists show how infection rewires brain VIRGINIA TECH Think about traffic flow in a city – there are stop signs, one-way streets, and traffic lights to organize movement across a widespread network. Now, imagine what would happen if you removed some of the traffic signals. Among your brain’s 86 billion neurons...