A study by the University of Birmingham has shown that children who have experienced child abuse or neglect are four times more likely to develop serious mental illness such as psychoses, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Sep 27, 2019
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A simple tweak to the sleeping patterns of 'night owls' - people with extreme late sleeping and waking habits—could lead to significant improvements in sleep/wake timings, improved performance in the mornings, better eating ...
Jun 10, 2019
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Research led by the University of Birmingham has found re-purposing already existing drugs or combining therapies could be used to treat patients who have difficult to treat autoimmune diseases.
Jun 17, 2019
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Patients waiting for elective surgery should get COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the general population—potentially helping to avoid thousands of post-operative deaths linked to the virus, according to a new study funded by ...
Mar 25, 2021
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Scientists at the University of Birmingham are calling for changes to healthcare policy following research which has shown for the first time the scale of the impact of a condition associated with benign tumors that can lead ...
Jan 4, 2022
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Neuroscientists at the University of Birmingham have proved how different parts of the human brain work together to create and retrieve episodic memory.
Oct 10, 2019
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The body's immune system can be re-wired to prevent it from recognizing its own proteins which, when attacked by the body, can cause autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, a significant new study by UK scientists has ...
Jun 9, 2020
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Patients with an abnormal heart rhythm that can leave them at a higher risk of suffering from stroke still need treatment even after their heart rhythm seems to have returned to normal, say researchers at the University of ...
May 10, 2018
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Scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered a protein that could hold the key to novel gene therapies for skin problems including psoriasis—a common, chronic skin disease that affects over 100 million people ...
Dec 20, 2018
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Some memories containing inaccurate information can be beneficial to dementia sufferers because it enables them to retain key information researchers say.
Mar 7, 2018
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