News tagged with predisposition

Childhood trauma leaves mark on DNA of some victims

Abused children are at high risk of anxiety and mood disorders, as traumatic experience induces lasting changes to their gene regulation. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have ...

Neuroscience created Dec 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover tactic to delay age-related disorders

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have shown that eliminating cells that accumulate with age could prevent or delay the onset of age-related disorders and disabilities. The study, performed in mouse models, provides the first evidence ...

Medical research created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Western diet changes gut bacteria and triggers colitis in those at risk

Certain saturated fats that are common in the modern Western diet can initiate a chain of events leading to complex immune disorders such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) in people with a genetic predisposition, according ...

Medical research created Jun 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mouse research links adolescent stress and severe adult mental illness

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence—a critical time for brain development—and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause ...

Neuroscience created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Epilepsy sends differentiated neurons on the run

(Medical Xpress)—The smooth operation of the brain requires a certain robustness to fluctuations in its home within the body. At the same time, its extraordinary power derives from an activity structure ...

Neuroscience created Mar 29, 2013 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Many researchers taking a different view of pedophilia

As a young boy, Paul Christiano loved the world of girls - the way they danced, how their spindly bodies tumbled in gymnastics. In adolescence, as other boys ogled classmates, he was troubled to find himself fantasizing about ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 21, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

High court throws out human gene patents

(AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers.

Genetics created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Treatment for painful curved penis shows promise

(HealthDay)—Some diseases are especially tough to discuss. When Tony Lee realized that his penis was curving whenever he had an erection—making it painful and difficult for him to have sex—he had no ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 08, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Discovery of insulin switches in pancreas could lead to new diabetes drugs

Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how a hormone turns on a series of molecular switches inside the pancreas that increases production of insulin.

Medical research created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genetic defect disturbs salt handling and pushes up blood pressure levels

(Medical Xpress) -- Hypertension is an endemic condition with far-reaching consequences. For instance, high blood pressure is the main cause of heart attacks and strokes. Other organs are also damaged by the ...

Genetics created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Team discovers new strategy to effectively treat, prevent osteoarthritis

Think new discoveries are the bee's knees? This one is even better—this research out of Rhode Island Hospital is the mice's knees. Researchers have found that adding lubricin, a protein that our bodies naturally produce, ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physical activity reduces the effect of the 'obesity gene'

The genetic predisposition to obesity due to the 'fat mass and obesity associated' (FTO) gene can be substantially reduced by living a physically active lifestyle according to new research by a large international collaboration, ...

Health created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Compensation in the brain could lead to new treatment

New evidence indicates that Parkinson's disease is preceded by a period during which healthy regions of the brain take over the functions of damaged ones. Neurologist Bart van Nuenen performed a unique study involving people ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study finds link between flu virus and diabetes onset

Researchers in Italy have discovered that the flu virus could contribute to the onset of diabetes. This finding could help scientists uncover a way to prevent some forms of this condition. The study was funded ...

Diabetes created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Young adults drink more in the company of a heavy drinker

Young adults drink more alcohol if they are in the company of peers who drink heavily. NWO researcher Helle Larsen has scientifically confirmed this link for the first time by observing young adults in a research lab converted ...

Health created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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