Giving “targeted” social support to people in need activates regions of the brain involved in parental care, according to a new study. And that may help researchers understand the positive health effects of social ties. The study was published in August 2018 in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, the journal of the American Psychosomatic… Continue reading “Parental” Regions of Brain Activated by Helping Others
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Researchers Discover Alzheimer’s “Subtypes”
Alzheimer’s disease, long thought to be a single disease, really consists of three distinct subtypes, according to a UCLA study. The discovery could eventually lead to new treatments for the debilitating neurological disorder. Additionally, the study found that one of the three variations, the cortical subtype, appears to be fundamentally a different condition than… Continue reading Researchers Discover Alzheimer’s “Subtypes”