Resource Tag: BRAIN--RESEARCH

This Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child explains why significant deprivation is so harmful in the earliest years of life and why effective interventions are likely to pay significant dividends in better long-term outcomes in learning, health, and parenting of the next generation.

Being able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways. In the brain, this air traffic control mechanism is called executive function, a group […]

Hippocampal volumes were assessed with automatic segmentation in 63 depressed patients with or without suicide attempts. Suicide attempters had lower total hippocampus volumes than non-attempters, especially for acute suicide attempts. These differences were independent from socio-demographics and major depressive disorder characteristics. A total hippocampal volume threshold of 5.00 cm3 had a 98.2% negative predictive value […]