Common depression assessment tools differ widely in the symptoms they ask about. How do they differ and what does this mean for depression research? By…
15 Depression Assessment Tools and Their Differences
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Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease has very specific etiology that can typically only be confirmed postmortem. Are there ways to identify it in the dynamical features of brain…
Zapping Away Maladies of the Mind with tDCS
Using electricity to try and zap away maladies of the brain is a thousand years old but how far we have really come? Known as…
Consistency of Resting-State EEG Results in Mental Health Studies
Spectral properties of resting state EEG have been pursued as potential correlates of mental health status but poor consistency and small sample sizes plague the…
Lab Talk in 2018: From Analytical Methods to Mental Health
From unsolved problems and new research directions in Neuroscience to analytical methods in EEG and biomarkers and diagnosis of mental health disorders, we provide a…
EEG Frequency Bands Across Mental Health Disorders
Spectral changes in the EEG are common across multiple mental health disorders calling for caution in interpreting studies of individual disorders in isolation. According to…
The Adolescent Brain
The adolescent brain undergoes profound changes in both structure and function that are visible in the MRI, DTI and EEG. Here’s a look at some…
The Rat Size Brain in the Gut
There are more neurons in the human gut than in an entire mouse or rat brain possibly communicating information from and to the kilograms of…
Diagnosing Childhood ADHD
The diagnosis of ADHD in children is fraught with ambiguity and bias with the consequence of poor epidemiological understanding and treatment decisions. More quantitative assessment…
Lunatic Asylums of the 1800s
The way society handles the deviant variants and dispositions of the mind has a brutal history with some remarkable and exceptional examples that can teach…
