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One of the most common byproducts of the burning of fossil fuels, phenanthrene, causes heart arrhythmias in mice, proving for the first time it is toxic to mammals.
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Chemotherapy is essential for many cancer patients, but some suffer from cognitive impairment throughout treatment. "Chemobrain" can consist of deficits in memory, attention, and executive function.
Oct 19, 2023
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Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from a vision condition called amblyopia, or lazy eye, with imbalanced vision in their two eyes. Unless this disabling condition is caught and treated at a young age, it's rare ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Tomás R. Guilarte has been exchanging emails with a mother whose child was exposed to lead. She's not the first parent he's heard from. And likely won't be the last. This is our legacy of lead.
Oct 16, 2023
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Because figuring out what is new and what is familiar in what we see is such a critically important ability for prioritizing our attention, neuroscientists have spent decades trying to figure out how our brains are typically ...
Sep 27, 2023
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Researchers have identified common and rare gene mutations that increase risk for schizophrenia. Yet it's unclear what biological mechanisms go awry in the brain to cause psychosis and other disabling symptoms, due in part ...
Sep 1, 2023
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Our behavior is controlled through neural circuits in the brain. Molecular disturbances can lead to stereotypical behavior, as seen in neuropsychiatric disorders such as obsessive-compulsive and autism spectrum disorders.
Aug 22, 2023
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Psychedelics are known for inducing altered states of consciousness in humans by fundamentally changing our normal pattern of sensory perception, thought and emotion. Research into the therapeutic potential of psychedelics ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Neurons are the cells that constitute neural circuits and use chemicals and electricity to receive and send messages that allow the body to do everything, including thinking, sensing, moving, and more. Neurons have a long ...
Jul 28, 2023
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An estimated 16 million people in the United States have alcohol use disorders (AUDs), according to the National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Now, Indiana University researchers have made a substantial ...
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