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While early evidence is beginning to suggest an increase of alcohol consumption during the pandemic, University of New Mexico and Mind Research Network researchers are in the midst of testing a combination of different mechanisms to treat alcohol use...

A group of doctors and scientists from The University of New Mexico and the Mind Research Network are testing a new technique in an effort to increase learning and memory in older adults with and without memory impairments. The Modern Energetic Methods...

A research study at The University of New Mexico and the Mind Research Network (MRN) is picking up right where it left off after the pandemic slowed recruitment efforts. The study that aims to identify neurocognitive and neurobehavioral mechanisms of...

Although U.S. veterans experience PTSD at rates of up to 30 percent, there are no objective measures to help identify individuals with PTSD. A currently funded grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of New Mexico is intended to...

New research from Regents’ Professor Katie Witkiewitz at The University of New Mexico Department of Psychology and Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions examines alcohol use disorder, the physical and economic toll it takes, and effective...

For decades, research has produced vast amounts of data on how the brain works – how we think, how we learn, what happens when the brain is injured – and it is moving toward diagnosing mental illnesses that affect millions, like depression or...

Vince Calhoun hopes to combat mental illnesses using fMRI scanners to map electrical currents via blood moving through the human brain.

For the next few years hundreds of young people will have their brains scanned at the Mind Research Network on the University of New Mexico’s north campus as researchers try to understand precisely how normal young brains rapidly develop the complex...

A new paper released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) examines long term effects of marijuana use on the brain. The results underscore the difficulty of classifying it as either helpful or damaging.

Sports related concussions are a major concern that has drawn national attention over the past several years. The University of New Mexico has engaged in a progressive research program examining concussions in their athletes...