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Japanese researchers find norepinephrine levels may be linked to gambling addiction
(Medical Xpress) -- Because addictions cause so much havoc in the lives of millions of people, researchers the world over are constantly looking for both their causes and ways to treat them. One such addiction, to gambling, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Study finds children better at converting implicit into explicit knowledge after sleep
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from Germany and Switzerland have found that children are able to do a better job of converting implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge after getting a night's sleep, than ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 25, 2013 |
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Researchers discover molecule that kills cavity causing mouth bacteria
(Medical Xpress) -- Yale researcher Jose Cordova and Erich Astudillo from the University of Chile (and Founder of Top Tech Innovations SpA) have after working together, discovered a new molecule that kills the bacteria Streptococcus Mu ...
Dentistry
Jul 10, 2012 |
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Optical Illusion experiment shows higher brain functions involved in pupil size control
(Medical Xpress) -- We all know that our pupils contract when our eyes are exposed to increases in the brightness of light. The reason is to both protect the delicate inner workings of our eyes and to help ...
Neuroscience
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Study shows people return smiles based on feelings of status and power
(Medical Xpress)—A study conducted to learn more about mimicry of facial features has found that people tend to mimic smiles directed at them by other people based on their own feelings of status and power. ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 17, 2012 |
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Blood test for human form of mad cow disease developed
(Medical Xpress) -- Mad cow disease is serious business in the U.K., the human form, known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob after Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob (CJD), who independently first described its existence ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Researchers say it's time to stop blaming cats for brain cancer in people
(Medical Xpress)—Two groups of researchers have published articles in the journal Biology Letters, suggesting that it's time we stop blaming cats for making people crazy or for a certain type of brain cancer ...
Cancer
Aug 23, 2012 |
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Research effort reveals differences in brain activity for two types of mental illness
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Australia have uncovered what they describe as differences in brain behavior for people diagnosed with either bipolar disorder (BP) or borderline personality disorder (BPD). ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2013 |
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Research study shows men find dancing women more attractive during most fertile time
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany have found that men viewing videos of silhouettes of dancing women were more likely to describe those who were ovulating at the time as more ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 17, 2012 |
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Researchers find link between peptide that switches during stress and depression
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers working out of the University of Washington have found that a certain peptide normally involved in helping the brain experience pleasure is caused to switch when subjected to ...
Neuroscience
Sep 20, 2012 |
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New kind of memory trick may help drug addicts recover
(Medical Xpress) -- Traditionally, treatment for drug addicts has centered around so-called extinction procedures designed to disassociate memories tied with taking drugs to help reduce the cravings that so often result in ...
Addiction
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Scientists in sleep-wake tests decode dreams
What's in a dream? For Yukiyasu Kamitani, the question is important. He has been testing how dreams relate to brain activity and what really is the function of dreaming, He leads a team of researchers at the ATR Computational ...
Neuroscience
Oct 29, 2012 |
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Milk consumption in adolescence may increase prostate cancer risk
(Medical Xpress) -- While people have been told for years about the importance of milk in a diet for children, a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology says that milk consumption in large quantities in ado ...
Cancer
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Researchers image most of vertebrae brain at single cell level (w/ video)
(Medical Xpress)—Misha Ahrens and Philipp Keller, researchers with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have succeeded in making a near real-time video of most of a zebrafish's brain showing individual neuron ...
Neuroscience
Mar 20, 2013 |
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Researchers find magnetic brain stimulation appears to make lying more difficult
(PhysOrg.com) -- People have been lying to one another likely for as long as they have been able to communicate, and for likely just as long, people have been trying to figure out a way to get the truth out of someone suspected ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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