Psychology & Psychiatry
Mechanism linking anxiety to testosterone discovered by scientists
A study has unveiled a significant link between anxiety disorders and a brain receptor known as TACR3, as well as testosterone.
Jan 22, 2024
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News tagged with clinical evidence
Neuroscience
Neuroscientists find that animals replay incidentally encoded episodic memories
Indiana University neuroscientists have found the first evidence that rodents can call upon their episodic memory—the ability to recall seemingly unimportant streams of events from the past—and use incidentally encoded ...
Jan 12, 2024
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Diabetes
Interventions that reduce inflammation may reduce incidence of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease
Canadian scientists have established for the first time a new mechanism and role for LDL in the development of type 2 diabetes, beyond its traditional role in the development of cardiovascular disease in humans.
Nov 13, 2023
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Medications
Metformin could promote healthy aging based on genetics
A research team from the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), provides genetic evidence that metformin might promote healthy aging using a cohort study of more than 300,000 ...
Jul 21, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
High body temperature increases resistance to pathogenic viral infections, new study finds
Clinical evidence suggests that elderly individuals are at a higher risk of contracting viral infections. Quite notably, the older people also have lower mean body temperatures. However, the effects of increased body temperature ...
Jul 20, 2023
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Genetics
New study reveals shared genetic markers underlying substance use disorders
By combing through genomic data of over 1 million people, scientists have identified genes commonly inherited across addiction disorders, regardless of the substance being used. This dataset—one of the largest of its kind—may ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds protein in blood believed to be linked to depression
The process of aging is often related to the onset of neurological symptoms such as cognitive decline, memory loss or mood disorders such as depression. Previous studies have shown that the growth factor GDF11, a protein ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dearth of high quality monkeypox guidelines may be hampering care globally
A dearth of high quality, up to date clinical guidance on monkeypox may be hampering effective and safe treatment of the infection around the world, concludes a review of what's available to guide patient care and published ...
Aug 16, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers develop new computational tool to interpret clinical significance of cancer mutations
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a new tool to help researchers interpret the clinical significance of somatic mutations in cancer. The tool, known as CancerVar, incorporates machine ...
May 6, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Nontoxic drug delivery system could lead to effective therapies for currently untreatable cancers
A non-toxic, bacteria-based system developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can detect when it is inside a cancer cell and then release its payload of therapeutic drugs directly into the cell. The work, published ...
Oct 21, 2021
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