Exercising and Psychoeducation Bettering the Mental Heath of Adolescence

Adolescents with mood disorders including depression can have a difficult time trying to deal with their mood disorder, but a new study can help. Exercising and psychoeducation a few times, a week could have promising effects to better the mood of the adolescent. Psychoeducation consists of group games, poetry reading, and singing. When the only…

Orexin gene transfer into the amygdala suppresses both spontaneous and emotion-induced cataplexy in orexin-knockout mice

Around 1 in 2000 people suffer from the sleep disorder narcolepsy. The word comes from narco, meaning numbness, and lepsy, meaning seizures. It is a life-long disorder characterized by daytime sleepiness, sleep paralysis and fragmentation, vivid hallucinations during sleep transition, and cataplexy, which is the sudden loss of muscle tone while conscious often triggered by…

The Effect of Infant Tears on Activity in the Female Brain

For the first months of life, crying is the main method of communication for an infant. Crying is used to alert caregivers when an infant is in need or in danger. The cry expressed by an infant is quite different from that of an adult, with infant cries being loud and abrasive, while adults usually…