Category: Mental Health and Brain Health

Mental Health and Brain Health

Nutrition’s critical role in teen mental health

Nutrition’s critical role in teen mental health
6 min read
Nutrition’s critical role in teen mental health

Picture your last patient of the day: a 15-year-old girl with declining grades, poor sleep, and fatigue. Her parents are understandably concerned. Before reaching for the prescription pad or referring her to therapy, consider this: What she ate for lunch

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Mental Health and Brain Health

Zoo animals offer promising venue to study brain disorders

Zoo animals offer promising venue to study brain disorders
4 min read

Neuroscience research relies overwhelmingly on a single model system—the mouse—to address human health challenges. Yet mice rarely replicate the complexity of human diseases, particularly in the brain, and treatments that show promise in mice often fail to translate effectively to

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Mental Health and Brain Health

The future of mental health treatment: Zelquistinel’s role

The future of mental health treatment: Zelquistinel’s role
8 min read

Learn about zelquistinel, an innovative NMDA receptor modulator that is transforming treatment possibilities through a novel approach to synaptic plasticity. This breakthrough drug offers new insights into early drug discovery and the future of neuropsychiatric treatment.

A human brain on blue background. 3D illustrationA human brain on blue background. 3D illustration


Neuropsychiatric treatment is on

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Mental Health and Brain Health

What Does Estrogen Do in the Brain? A Lot More Than You Might Think

What Does Estrogen Do in the Brain? A Lot More Than You Might Think
5 min read

Variable estrogen levels impact mood, says Dr. Maki, who co-authored the first guidelines to identify and treat depression in perimenopause. She says that “elevated depressive symptoms” (where you may feel depressed but don’t meet a clinical definition of depression) “reliably

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Mental Health and Brain Health

Perceptions about brain health among the United Arab Emirates population using the global brain survey: a cross-sectional study

Perceptions about brain health among the United Arab Emirates population using the global brain survey: a cross-sectional study
32 min read

Highlights

• Main findings – Physical health, sleep habits, substance use, and social environment are key factors influencing brain health perceptions in the UAE, with notable differences across age, gender, education, and healthcare experience.

• Added knowledge – Our study

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Mental Health and Brain Health

Health Matters: Experiencing Brain Fog? Here Are Some Exercises To Do

Health Matters: Experiencing Brain Fog? Here Are Some Exercises To Do
4 min read
Health Matters: Experiencing Brain Fog? Here Are Some Exercises To Do
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March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to raising awareness about brain injuries through education and advocacy—a typical brain symptom that people experience, when either processing grief or stress, is brain fog. According to Dr. Magdala

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Mental Health and Brain Health

HealthTech Connex nabs $3.7M loan for brain scanner expansion

HealthTech Connex nabs .7M loan for brain scanner expansion
3 min read

Funding is part of $18.3M in loans that the Pacifican federal development agency announced this week

Surrey’s HealthTech Connex, which sells $30,000 portable brain scanners that monitor brain waves, plans rapid expansion thanks to netting a $3.7 million loan from

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Mental Health and Brain Health

Physical activity tied to improved mental, brain health

Physical activity tied to improved mental, brain health
2 min read
Folks who regularly exercise have better mental and brain health, researchers will report in early April at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in San Diego and online. Adobe stock/HealthDay

Folks who regularly exercise have better mental and brain health, researchers will report in early April at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in San Diego and online. Adobe stock/HealthDay

Moving your body helps your brain, a

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