Memory Appears Susceptible to Eradication of Fear Responses
Fear responses can only be erased when people learn something new while retrieving the fear memory according to a new study.
Strategy Developed to Improve Delivery of Medicines to the Brain
The experimental treatment method allows small therapeutic agents to safely cross the blood-brain barrier in laboratory rats by turning off P-glycoprotein, one of the main gatekeepers preventing medicinal drugs from reaching their intended targets in the brain.
Patients’ Brains May Adapt to ADHD Medication
New research reveals how the brain appears to adapt to compensate for the effects of long-term ADHD medication, suggesting why ADHD medication is more effective short-term than it is long-term. The study, from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King’s College London is published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Dr Paolo Fusar-Poli and [...]
