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The Washington Post JUNE 14, 2024
Racism can spark depression and anxiety in Black adolescents, study finds
Lizette Ortega
Studies of brain activity suggest that the way Black youths cope with racial discrimination can affect their mental health.
The Scientist JUNE 14, 2024
Engineered Rabies Virus Illuminates Neural Circuitry
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px; font: 10.0px Gotham} span.s1 {letter-spacing: -0.1px}Scientists turned a deadly virus into a crucial tool for understanding the wiring of the brain.
The Scientist JUNE 14, 2024
From Code to Creature
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px; font: 10.0px Gotham} span.s1 {letter-spacing: -0.1px}A happenstance collaboration between biologists and roboticists led to the birth of a strange creation: living machines derived from frog stem cells.
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We know stress can take a toll on our mental health. Yet, it’s unclear why some people develop stress-related mental health disorders and others don’t. The risk for developing a stress-related mental health disorder such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depressive disorder (MDD) depends on a complex interplay between the genetic vulnerabilities we are born with and the impact of traumatic stress we experience over our lifetimes.Given this complexity, it’s been difficult for researchers to pinpoint the underlying biological pathways in the body that ultimately produce changes associated with PTSD, major depression, or other mental health conditions. Now, a study reported in a special issue of Science on decoding the brain uses a comprehensive approach to examine multiple biological processes across brain regions, cell types, and blood to elucidate this complexity. It’s an unprecedented effort to understand in a more holistic way the essential biological networks involved in PTSD and MDD.
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NIH Director's Blog JUNE 6, 2024
Study Suggests Computerized Brain Implant Could One Day Decode Internal Speech for Those Who Can No Longer Speak
The ability to communicate using only the thoughts in your mind might sound like the stuff of science fiction. But for people who’ve lost the ability to speak or move due to injury or disease, there’s now great hope that it may one day be possible using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that can “read” the relevant brain signals and translate them directly into written or spoken words. An NIH-supported team has now made an important but preliminary advance in this direction by showing for the first time that a computer can decode silent, internal speech with little training.