An ambitious new research project, Spectrum 10K, launches today and will recruit 10,000 autistic individuals, as well as their relatives, living in the UK. Spectrum 10K is led by researchers at the world-leading Autism Research Centre (ARC), the University of Cambridge, together with the Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) […]
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Consciousness: how the brain chemical ‘dopamine’ plays a key role
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, shows that conscious brain activity seems to be linked to the brain’s “pleasure chemical”, dopamine. The fact that the neural mechanisms that underpin consciousness disorders are difficult to characterise makes these conditions hard to diagnose and treat. Brain-imaging has established that a […]