Neuroscience
Calming overexcited neurons may protect the brain after stroke
A new study has prompted scientists to reconsider a once-popular yet controversial idea in stroke research.
Apr 21, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Race of people given Alzheimer's blood tests may affect interpretation of results
Three experimental blood tests used to identify people in early stages of Alzheimer's disease perform differently in Black individuals compared to white individuals, according to a new study from Washington University School ...
Apr 21, 2022
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Neuroscience
Poverty, crime linked to differences in newborns' brains
Poverty and crime can have devastating effects on a child's health. But a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that some environmental factors influence the structure ...
Apr 12, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 infection linked to higher risk of neuropathy
Adding to a growing body of evidence that, for many, problems related to COVID-19 linger longer than the initial infection, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that some people ...
Mar 25, 2022
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Neuroscience
New strategy reduces brain damage in Alzheimer's and related disorders in mice
Alzheimer's disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau. A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Health
In US, alcohol use disorder linked to 232 million missed workdays annually
Heavy alcohol use is associated with missing work, but the scope of that relationship has not been well understood. Now, based on survey data from more than 110,000 U.S. adults with full-time jobs, researchers at Washington ...
Mar 17, 2022
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Neuroscience
For accuracy, brain studies of complex behavior require thousands of people
As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to "see" what's going wrong inside the brains of people with mental illnesses ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Novel treatment makes pancreatic cancer susceptible to immunotherapy, mouse study shows
A new study—in mice—from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that blocking a major inflammatory pathway that is activated in pancreatic cancer makes the tumors sensitive to chemotherapy and ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Immunology
New way viruses trigger autoimmunity discovered
Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Type 1 diabetes are thought to arise when people with a genetic susceptibility to autoimmunity encounter something in the environment that triggers their immune systems ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Antibiotic doesn't prevent future wheezing in babies hospitalized with RSV
The antibiotic azithromycin has anti-inflammatory properties that can be beneficial in some chronic lung diseases, such as cystic fibrosis. With that in mind, researchers investigated its potential to prevent future recurrent ...
Feb 28, 2022
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