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Novel Coronavirus May Not Affect Brain but Still Cause Damage by Angela Mohan on  April 19, 2021 at 12:04 PM Brain. The study suggest that the neurological changes often seen in these patients may result from inflammation triggered by the virus in other parts of the body or the brain's blood vessels. "We've looked at more brains than other studies and we have used more techniques to search for the virus. The bottom line is that we find no evidence of viral RNA or protein in brain cells," said researcher James E. Goldman from Columbia University. For the study, the research...

COVID-19 Raised Mental Health Issues Within Families by Angela Mohan on  April 13, 2021 at 5:26 PM Lock down due to COVID-19 has been liked to a variety of large, detrimental effects on individuals' and families' well-being and functioning. Parents reported that they themselves were experiencing much higher levels of depression and lower levels of coparenting quality with their partners. Mark Feinberg, research professor of health and human development at Penn State, said the results -- recently published in the journal Family Process -- give insight into just how devastat...

Genetic Link Identified Between Face and Brain Shape by Hannah Joy on  April 5, 2021 at 10:35 PM About 76 overlapping genetic locations have been identified that shape both our face and brain, reveals an interdisciplinary team led by KU Leuven and Stanford. What the researchers didn't find is evidence that this genetic overlap also predicts someone's behavioral-cognitive traits or risk of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. This means that the findings help to debunk several persistent pseudoscientific claims about what our face reveals about us. There were already indi...

Mental Health Problems Before and After Covid-19 in Middle School Kids by Hannah Joy on  April 5, 2021 at 6:36 PM The symptoms reduced during the early stages of the pandemic It could be due to the COVID-19 stay-at-home regulations During the early stages of the pandemic, the elevated levels of mental health problems in middle school children from a predominantly Latinx community were found to be reduced, reveals a new study. The study in the Mental Health Problems Before and After Covid-19 in Middle School Kids "While the negative impact of the COVID pandemic on mental hea...

Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Treat OCD Patients With Comorbidities by Hannah Joy on  April 1, 2021 at 4:37 PM Frontiers in Psychiatry. DBS is a minimally invasive neurosurgical procedure that uses coordinates to target certain areas of the brain, implanting electrodes that can help regulate abnormal brain activity. DBS procedures are rare for OCD in the United States; only a couple hundred patients have received this treatment for OCD management since its FDA approval in 2009 via a Humanitarian Device Exemption. The effectiveness of DBS for OCD has been well-documented in l...