A recent study links anxiety behavior in rats, as well as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans, to increased myelin—a substance that expedites communication between neurons—in areas of the brain ...
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A common stereotype is that growing up poor can stunt brain development due to adverse environmental conditions. But on a positive note, new UC Berkeley research suggests that children's brains can adapt in different ways ...
Dec 10, 2021
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If you can't stop saying or doing things that you later regret, here's a diagnostic test for you: UC Berkeley researchers have pioneered a way to better determine when acting on one's worst impulses verges on pathological.
Dec 6, 2021
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When you clicked to read this story, a band of cells across the top of your brain sent signals down your spine and out to your hand to tell the muscles in your index finger to press down with just the right amount of pressure ...
Oct 6, 2021
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Researchers at UC Berkeley successfully revived human heart tissue after it had been preserved in a subfreezing, supercooled state for one to three days.
Sep 27, 2021
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The experience of a fruit fly dying from cancer may seem worlds away from that of a human with a life-threatening tumor, yet University of California Berkeley researchers are finding commonalities between the two that could ...
Sep 16, 2021
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Three decades ago, child development researchers found that low-income children heard tens of millions fewer words in their homes than their more affluent peers by the time they reached kindergarten. This "word gap" was and ...
Jul 19, 2021
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A new paper in JAMA Network Open, written by Berkeley Public Health Professor of Community Health Sciences Barbara Laraia, Ph.D., MPH, RD, Anil Aswani, Ph.D., associate professor of industrial engineering and operations research ...
Jun 28, 2021
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Quick: Pick your three favorite fast-food restaurants.
May 12, 2021
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Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a tiny wireless implant that can provide real-time measurements of tissue oxygen levels deep underneath the skin. The device, which is smaller than the average ...
Apr 14, 2021
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