Neuroscience
Brain plasticity promotes worsening of epileptic seizures
Epileptic seizures worsen via the same mechanism by which practice makes perfect, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.
May 4, 2022
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News tagged with molecular changes
Psychology & Psychiatry
Neuronal mechanism that controls anxiety-like behavior and energy expenditure
Stress responses including physiological and behavioral changes facilitate threat avoidance. Long-term stress affects normal brain function and induces both anxiety and glucose or lipid metabolism disorders, leading to the ...
Mar 23, 2022
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Neuroscience
Researchers study how gene expression changes in the brain in Alzheimer's disease
Although Alzheimer's disease is one of the most studied pathologies due to its high prevalence, the molecular changes that cause astrocytes, a type of brain cell, to become reactive astrocytes, manifesting a very pronounced ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes can be predicted with epigenetic changes
Children who develop type 1 diabetes show epigenetic changes in the cells of their immune system already before the antibodies of the disease are detected in their blood. The findings of two new studies offer new opportunities ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why some people find it harder to be happy
The self-help industry is booming, fuelled by research on positive psychology—the scientific study of what makes people flourish. At the same time, the rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm continue to soar worldwide. ...
Dec 7, 2021
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Immunology
Study shows how digital and molecular data can be integrated and used to improve health
Analyzing molecular characteristics and their variation during lifestyle changes, by combining digital tools, classical laboratory tests and new biomolecular measurements, could enable individualized prevention of disease. ...
Dec 2, 2021
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Medical research
Study unravels mysteries of the aging Down syndrome brain
In the first study of its kind, researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys have uncovered molecular changes within the aging brains of individuals with Down syndrome that could help explain their cognitive challenges, including ...
Nov 15, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain gene expression patterns altered by chronic opioid use
The epidemic of opioid abuse affects millions of people worldwide, but researchers know surprisingly little about the molecular changes caused by opioids in the human brain. A new study, which appears in Biological Psychiatry, ...
Aug 13, 2021
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Cardiology
MicroRNAs may contribute to atherogenesis in a cell-type-dependent manner
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have uncovered potential mechanisms by which microRNAs (miRNA) drive atherogenesis in a cell-type-specific manner. Published in the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Genomic study points to new treatment approaches for advanced small-cell lung cancer
A new study of advanced small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC—James) ...
Apr 26, 2021
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