University of California, Los Angeles researchers have discovered that chronic stress flips brain activity between two amygdala-striatal pathways, disrupting flexible decision-making and promoting ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Those who treat patients with Alzheimer’s say that the tests need only a bit ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease moved closer to reality this week after new findings were announced at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on ...

The test, which is not yet widely available, is being developed so that it can eventually be used at the point-of-care.

For example, with personalised medicine, instead of using generic reference ranges for blood tests, we’d look at your unique baseline and compare your results against this. This could be ...