Continued extensive advertising that targets children and families, as well as lower prices of sweetened children's fruit drinks, influence purchasing behaviors of U.S. households with young children, according to a new study ...
Oct 27, 2021
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Baby brains are hungry for language. New parents are urged to talk to their babies to help their minds develop properly. Now, a group of UConn researchers have shown that "talking" doesn't just mean speech—sign language ...
Oct 26, 2021
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The proposed reauthorization of the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, also known as CAPTA—the foundational child abuse prevention legislation in the United States—has the potential to drastically and positively ...
Oct 25, 2021
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People with type 2 diabetes experience stigma because of both their diabetes and their weight, according to a new study published in Clinical Diabetes by researchers at the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. Moreover, ...
Oct 21, 2021
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Breathing difficulties mark a rare form of autism. Now, UConn researchers have traced the symptom to a specific set of brain cells—and possibly found a way to help sufferers.
Oct 13, 2021
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Research scientists and physicians at UConn Health, in collaboration with researchers at the Mayo Clinic, have just had an article documenting new work published in Nature Aging, a prestigious journal dedicated to aging research ...
Oct 12, 2021
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Glioblastoma multiformes is a potentially devastating brain tumor. Now, a collaboration between UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is discovering what makes them so adaptable and dangerous and sometimes able to ...
Oct 7, 2021
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Any pain you experience is all in your head—really. When we feel pain in response to a stimulus, whether stubbing a toe, burning a finger, or something more severe, the feeling of pain is the result of a complex signaling ...
Oct 4, 2021
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Mutations in a protein known to cause Parkinson's Disease derange transportation in and out of brain cells, reports a team of UConn Health researchers in the 27 July issue of Science Signaling. The toxic traffic jams that ...
Sep 15, 2021
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Electroconvulsive therapy reduces deaths by suicide among older adults with depression in the months immediately following hospitalization, researchers report in the 10 September issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. ...
Sep 10, 2021
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