In a small, exploratory study, levels of certain types of microbes in babies' guts were shown to be associated with performance in tests of early cognitive development. Sebastian Hunter of the University of British Columbia, ...
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The United States saw a record 25,487 kidney transplants in 2021, according to the latest annual data report from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Five years ...
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In prehistoric societies, humans tended to learn from members of our ingroup or from more prestigious individuals, as this information was more likely to be reliable and result in group success. However, with the advent of ...
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Long gone are the days when your doctor called with basic test results. The internet changed medical communication, putting patients in control of reading their labs and numbers inside electronic patient portals. Many would ...
Aug 3, 2023
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Health, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".
Jul 21, 2023
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A new research paper titled "Cognitive rescue in aging through prior training in rats" has been published in Aging.
Jul 19, 2023
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The capability to reflect on their own mental state and that of others continues to develop throughout adolescence, with mentalizing scores varying by gender and personality traits, according to a new study published this ...
Jun 21, 2023
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In a recent experiment published in JAMA, physician-researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) tested one well-known publicly available chatbot's ability to make accurate diagnoses in challenging medical ...
Jun 15, 2023
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Are our senses there to provide us with the most complete representation of the world, or do they serve our survival? For a long time, the former was the dominant view in neuroscience. "Was" is the operative word here. In ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have created a "semantic brain decoder" to guess someone's thoughts based on brain activity.
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