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During the Cold War, the Pentagon's Chemical Corps researched chemical compounds that could be used against enemy troops. The ...

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The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a region that regulates stress and emotion.

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Researchers in Japan have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. They ...