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Advertisement for a Clinical Psychologist

The MRC Unit on Anxiety & Stress Disorders has a vacancy for a Clinical Psychologist to be based at University […]

It’s all about Strengthened Connections Between Neurons, NIH-funded Study Confirms

Using a flash of light, scientists have inactivated and then reactivated a memory in genetically engineered rats.

Leaps Orders of Magnitude Beyond Existing Tools – NIH Study

Scientists have bioengineered, in neurons cultured from rats, an enhancement to a cutting edge technology that provides instant control over […]

One of a Kind: The Neurobiology of Individuality

What processes in the brain are reponsible for individuality?

Desperate search for answers to schizophrenia puzzle

Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.

187 Hours of overtime?

187 Hours of overtime: It’s illegal, abusive.

The mental health benefits of regular physical activity, and its role in preventing future depressive illness

There is a large body of literature which examines the mental health benefits of physical activity.

Booster Pills The Quick Fix?

Stellenbosch doctors warn against the addiction and dependence which can develop from taking Ritalin.

Oscar’s ‘part-time’ assessment

Who punished him twice?

Post-traumatic stress disorder can be treated, but it never goes away, a veteran writes

An Army veteran of the Iraq conflict, writing Sunday in The New York Times, provides a harrowing description of the […]

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