Node Smith, ND The presence of dreaming during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep indicates that memory formation may occur during this sleep stage. But now, researchers from Japan have found that [...]

Node Smith, ND People with maltreatment experiences in their childhood have a changed perception of social stimuli later as adults. This is what scientists from the Division of Medical Psychology [...]

Tolle Causam Decker Weiss, NMD, FASA It is debatable whether dementia is on the rise. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, brain disease and dementia are on the rise across all 50 US states, [...]

Tolle Totum Sara Thyr, ND Most people have been affected by someone with dementia, either a family member or a close friend, or possibly a patient. There are few illnesses that create such [...]

Node Smith, ND Researchers have discovered a mysterious group of neurons in the amygdala — a key center for emotional processing in the brain — that stay in an immature, prenatal [...]

Node Smith, ND Schizophrenia causes hallucinations and memory or cognition problems inter alia. This psychiatric illness affects 0.5% of the general population, and it may be related to genetic [...]

Node Smith, ND In a series of recently published studies using animals and people, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have further characterized a set of chemical imbalances in the [...]

Node Smith, ND Like in a science fiction novel, miniscule spacecrafts able to reach a specific site of the brain and influence the operation of specific types of neurons or drug delivery: [...]

Naturopathic Perspective Jim Massey, ND, HANP We find ourselves living in a most tumultuous time of our human civilization. We face a fork in the road, where we can either move forward and work [...]

Node Smith, ND Neurons in both males and females make estrogen and scientists have shown that when they don’t, their brains have significantly less dense spines and synapses – both [...]