New 2021 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines aim to optimise the healthcare experiences of these populations and ultimately improve their health outcomes and wellbeing. Children’s and young people’s views are too often missing from discussions about their care. This new guidance is particularly important because children and young people are […]
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 […]
Brain charts for the human lifespan
A new interactive open-source software tool for charting human brain growth trends and milestones from <0 to 100 years The project led by Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre and the Brain Mapping Unit, has developed an interactive open-source software tool for normative and clinical brain reference chart visualisation and estimation. […]
Psychedelic drugs: how the brains of informed users are different
There is a new generation of drug users out there who possess highly detailed pharmacological and technical knowledge about the drugs they take “Psychonauts” (meaning “navigator of the soul”) are enthusiastic and deliberate experimenters of hallucinogens, including psychedelic drugs, both synthetic and natural, for self-exploration, spiritual attainment or inducing an altered state of consciousness. […]
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