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Share on PinterestA new study looks at antioxidants and how they influence response to psychosis treatments.The time that it takes for somebody to respond to treatment for psychosis is a key indicator of their long-term outcome. Psychosis can be a symptom of a number of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and schizoaffective, bipolar, and major depressive…

Share on PinterestA new synapse atlas may provide further insight into the developing brain.The findings, which feature in the journal Science, provide a visual demonstration of the development of synapses across the brain’s life. Synapses connect brain cells, or neurons, in the brain.Although the types of cells in the brain are also present in other…

Home News (Image: © Shutterstock) The HIV virus can take refuge in the brain even when treated with antiretroviral therapies, only to later infect other organs in the body if that treatment is stopped, a new study in mice and human tissue suggests.Untreated HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, cripples the immune system and leaves…

By Michael Le Page A hazel dormouseAndy Harmer / Alamy Two groups of researchers have independently discovered a “brain switch” that makes starving mice enter a hibernation-like state called torpor to save energy. They hope it may be possible to induce similar states in people. “Suspended animation could transform medicine and open the door to…

By Clare Wilson Memories form in the hippocampus, and we can see the resulting brain waves reflected in people’s behaviour SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images How do we make a memory? An idea gaining ground is that forming memories and recalling them involves brainwaves cycling several times a second in our hippocampi, two small curved…