Articles about 'Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI)'

Study on effects of anti-obesity drug on the brain paves way for more effective treatments.

The most common type of antidepressants, serotonin enhancers, alters peoples moral judgement and leads to a reduction in aggressive behaviour, a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found.

Professor Paul Fletcher believes that exploring how the brain makes predictions about the world will help us to understand mental illness.

Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from Cambridge and Pittsburgh have found.

Whether someone will become the next Richard Branson, Steve Jobs or Henry Ford may be down to whether they make risky decisions, scientists at the University of Cambridge have concluded.