Study finds some women may be at higher risk of death from COVID-19 More men than women are dying from COVID-19. Many studies suggest that hormones may give women the upper hand. But not all women seem equally protected. Why? Feb 17, 2021 0 6
Study analyzes the risk genetic factors shared between ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders People with attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) combined with disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) share about the 80% of genetic variants associated with aggressive and antisocial behaviors. Feb 17, 2021 0 17
Long COVID: A public health expert's campaign to understand the disease On March 20 2020, while the UK was anticipating its first national lockdown to control the coronavirus pandemic, I started feeling unwell with what felt like a COVID-19 infection. Feb 17, 2021 0 37
Deep learning may help doctors choose better lung cancer treatments Doctors and healthcare workers may one day use a machine learning model, called deep learning, to guide their treatment decisions for lung cancer patients, according to a team of Penn State Great Valley researchers. Feb 17, 2021 0 70
The epidemic in the pandemic Opioid overdose deaths have quietly accelerated in the past year, a fact overshadowed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. According to the CDC, more than 81,000 people died of a drug overdose in the 12 months ending in May ... Feb 17, 2021 0 4
Proprioception, our imperceptible sixth sense Vision. Hearing. Smell. Taste. Touch. Proprioception. Proprioception? Few people are familiar with this sense, although its pioneer studies in the 19th century were by some of the giants of neuroscience: Claude Bernard who ... Feb 17, 2021 0 29
Volunteers in video game study self-report positive well-being A team of researchers at the University of Oxford working with two video game makers has found that volunteers who play video games self-report a positive feeling of wellbeing. In their paper published in the journal Royal ... Feb 17, 2021 report 1 95
Burnout, alcohol, PTSD: Health workers are suffering A Yale School of Public Health survey of thousands of health workers suggests worrying rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder amid a worsening pandemic. And in their new paper, the researchers now have the ... Feb 17, 2021 0 3
EU hails deals to get more vaccine shots, tackle variants The European Union announced Wednesday that it has agreed to buy a further 300 million doses of Moderna's vaccine against COVID-19 and was injecting almost a quarter of a billion euros (almost $300 million) into efforts to ... Feb 17, 2021 0 5
Noninvasive brain stimulation rescues cocaine-induced inflexibility in rats A major impediment to treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) is a loss of behavioral flexibility, whereby one's judgment is impaired such that their actions continuously result in negative consequences. Such decisions ... Feb 17, 2021 0 5
