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A brain that runs away from losses. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Brain runs away from loss: This is how the brain makes adventurous decisions to avoid losses

Weizmann Institute and Ichilov Institute study reveals, using electrodes deep in the brain, how loss avoidance mechanisms affect learning, memory, and anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders
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A new method for therapeutic intervention to prevent suicide in teenagers

Researchers have discovered biological and psychological characteristics that increase the risk of suicidal behavior among teenagers and have developed an application that helps with mental coping
The mechanism of the connection between depression and anxiety and the male sex hormone, testosterone, was discovered. Courtesy of Prof. Shira Knafo

The circle of influence of testosterone

The mechanism of the connection between depression and anxiety and the male sex hormone, testosterone, was discovered
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How morbid curiosity can lead people to conspiracy theories

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Morbid hypocrisy is not inherently bad, but an increased interest in learning about the dangers presented in conspiracy theories can reinforce beliefs that the world is a much more dangerous place than it actually is.
A war with iron swords Kibbutzim in the Gaza Strip Reim parking lot at the place where a mass party took place and about 260 young people were murdered Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO

How to deal with a routine of war and how to preserve the children's optimism?

The surprise and speed with which things happened, and the ignorance regarding the fate of many people, arouses tension and distress in all of us. Bar-Ilan University's mental support team offers several ways to help us deal with
An oligodendrocyte-type cell with many of its branches (in yellow) in a mouse brain section. Reacts to stress quite differently in males and females

Exposure to chronic stress activates different cells in the brains of females and males

From depression and anxiety to diabetes - health conditions resulting from chronic stress affect women and men differently. A new study in mice maps at the single-cell level molecular differences in the stress response in the brains of females
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A natural food supplement may act as an anti-anxiety agent

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists have shown that the herbal supplement reduces anxiety levels in mice without significant side effects
the amygdala. Photo: Prof. Roni Paz, Weizmann Institute

Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered neural activity patterns that characterize new conditioning learning

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Dr. Takashi Kawashima and Dr. Mio Nonke. Photo: Weizmann Institute Spokesperson

The fish will play before us

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In genetically modified mice, which lack the importin alpha-5 protein (right), the MeCP2 molecule (in red), which affects anxious behavior, remains outside the nucleus (in blue) of the nerve cells in the brain, and does not penetrate into it as in normal mice (left). Computer processing of an image that was taken using a confocal microscope. Weizmann Institute

There is no entry for anxiety

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Social contact and anxiety among people with autism

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Zebra fish. Photo: Marrabbio2, Wikimedia.

social switch

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Brain slice of a genetically modified mouse. Neurons that express the CRFR1 receptor appear in green, and neurons that express the neurotransmitter CRF appear in red. The image was taken with a fluorescence microscope. Source: from the article.

Law of conservation of pressure

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Israeli researchers have discovered a brain mechanism that is responsible for anxiety and hypersensitivity in people who do not sleep enough

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A molecule that may enable the diagnosis and development of advanced and effective drugs for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders

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From Nadav Harel's film "The Electric Mind"

About anxiety and lack of sensitivity

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Dr. Roni Paz and Jennifer Resnick. Discernment

The evolution of danger perception

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Alon Chen and his lab team. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Get out of the pressure

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