The Inflammatory Hypothesis of Depression
The proposal that inflammation causes depression in some patients. The evidence is better than for the serotonin account it partly replaced, and the…
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The proposal that inflammation causes depression in some patients. The evidence is better than for the serotonin account it partly replaced, and the…
Giulio Tononi's proposal that consciousness is integrated information, quantifiable as a number called phi, and present wherever that number is above…
The proposal that the brain flushes waste through a network of fluid-filled channels, and that the flushing happens mainly during sleep. It was…
The proposal that gut microbes influence mood, behaviour and neurological disease, and that altering them could treat psychiatric and…
A Hungarian obstetrician worked out in 1847 that doctors were killing women in childbirth by carrying something on their hands from the dissection…
Assign people to treatments by chance, and the groups differ only by chance. It is a simple idea, it is the most reliable method medicine has for…
The Earth's magnetic field has flipped hundreds of times, north becoming south and back. The record of those reversals is frozen into the ocean…