Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
* The delusions and other psychotic symptoms experienced by people with schizophrenia may be caused by a faulty brain ‘switch’ that blurs their ability to distinguish inner thoughts from objective reality, scientists said. In a study published in the journal Neuron, researchers found the severity of symptoms such as hearing voices and delusions was due to a disconnection between two key regions of the brain - the insula and the lateral frontal cortex.
* In a new study of former athletes with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), researchers have found the disease tends to show up in one of two ways: early, with depression and behavioral changes, or later, with memory loss. Researchers talked to the relatives of 36 people who had the brain condition identified on an autopsy and found all but three had shown symptom patterns that followed one of those two trajectories.
