Health
A new dental flosser enables at-home stress monitoring
Over time, stress and anxiety can build to a point where life's challenges become overwhelming and cause physical effects.
May 14, 2025
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Neuroscience
Reversible method breaks brain circuits with molecular precision
Scientists have developed a powerful new method for selectively and reversibly breaking connections between brain cells—a leap forward that could transform how we study brain processes and, one day, how we treat neurological ...
May 14, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Sex-specific brain changes reveal how early stress builds resilience in female mice
Early life stress (ELS) can have surprising benefits for female mice, leading to improved emotional regulation and cognitive function. A new study identifies a critical protein, FKBP51, as playing a key role in this adaptive ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Female children may face greater emotional and immune challenges from prenatal stress, study finds
A new study led by Prof. Hermona Soreq and Shani Vaknine Treidel from the Edmond and Lily Safra Center of Brain Science, uncovers how stress experienced during pregnancy can affect newborns at the molecular level—with significant ...
Apr 22, 2025
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Neuroscience
Brain imaging study reveals synaptic mechanisms of learning
How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo adaptations to accommodate ...
Apr 17, 2025
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Flexible hydrogel could improve drug delivery for post-traumatic osteoarthritis treatment
Post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) is a condition that affects joints after an injury. Current treatments focus on relieving symptoms, but do not prevent or stop the progression of the condition. Although emerging therapies ...
Mar 31, 2025
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Neuroscience
PET imaging confirms direct involvement of dopamine in cognitive flexibility
For the first time, scientists have confirmed a neurobiochemical link between dopamine and cognitive flexibility, according to new research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. PET imaging shows ...
Mar 28, 2025
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Neuroscience
New research looks at how axons connect as brains grow
How a person's brain grows and makes connections can determine intelligence as well as susceptibility to disorders such as epilepsy and mental illness. However, a lot of questions remain about how the process works, especially ...
Mar 18, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds unique brain changes linked to witnessing trauma
For years, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been studied primarily in people who experience trauma firsthand. But what about those who witness it—military veterans, first responders, health care workers, or bystanders ...
Mar 18, 2025
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Neuroscience
Research reveals how childhood adversity shapes the brain and behavior
Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review of research in this ...
Mar 17, 2025
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