Researchers have identified dysfunctions in two specific brain systems in people who have psychosis – systems that help us filter attention to important internal and external information and predict or anticipate rewards.
The new study led by a team from Stanford University helps us understand how the symptoms occur, which could lead to better treatments and interventions for psychosis and the other mental health conditions that it's linked to.
Psychosis involves disconnections from reality, like hallucinations and delusions. It can occur on its own but is also a part of conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which scientists are still trying to figure out fully.
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It starts when they're young.
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
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Empathy is the sensing of another's emotions and ability to imagine how they are feeling, a quality that seems in pretty short supply in large parts of today's world.
The good news is, we might be able to spread empathy and compassion through social interaction. That's the conclusion of a new study from an international team of researchers which conducted four separate experiments designed to measure shifts in empathy based on the actions of more than 50 volunteers.
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Synapse - Interactive fiction game where you play as a curious ai bot shuffling around a decaying cryogenics facility, set far in the future with glimpses into the past. My first twine work I actually finished, choose to do your work or to find out more about yourself and this strange decrepit facility.
TW; for depictions of medical horror, existentialism, body horror
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