Workout or nap? Either can help your sleepless brain, study finds
A short workout or a nap can help protect memory after a sleepless night, a McGill University-led study has found.
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Dual beta rhythms could guide more precise Parkinson's brain stimulation
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center studying Parkinson's disease have discovered a previously unrecognized sequence of abnormal activity across multiple regions of the brain, providing a new level of understanding ...
Aug 24, 2026
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How patients write portal messages may affect whether doctors respond
Portal messages have become a routine way for patients to communicate with their health care teams. But a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that how patients write those messages ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Metalheads can endure pain longer thanks to the festival experience
True to the motto "Faster, harder, louder," some 80,000 metal fans celebrate their music and bands at Wacken Open Air every year. Lydia Schneider and Tom Fritz from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Can you slow the aging process? Study reveals which interventions might help
When Raghav Sehgal arrived at Yale as a graduate student several years ago, he wanted to explore the use of powerful computer science tools in cancer research. With an engineering background and a computational biology startup ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline
As people age, many cognitive functions tend to decline. Brain-scanning studies have revealed corresponding changes in the function of a brain network involved in many of these cognitive functions, including working memory ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Doctors and scientists race to understand a rising form of heart failure
Approximately 3 million people in the United States are living with a condition called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF. The number of people with this form of heart failure, which is more common in ...
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A gut microbial health index as a composite biomarker for evaluating overall health
Each person has a unique gut microbial population, with variation shaped by diet, lifestyle and disease. We are seeing a rapid rise in metabolic disorders, obesity and inflammatory diseases that cannot be explained by our ...
Oxalate in spinach and almonds may worsen gut inflammation in IBD
Spinach, almonds and sweet potatoes are celebrated as some of the healthiest foods on the planet. But for the millions of Americans living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a new study from the UNC School of Medicine ...
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Atlantic climate variability enables the prediction of leishmaniasis outbreaks in North Africa
Climate variability in the Atlantic Ocean can help predict cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreaks in North Africa several months in advance. This is the finding of a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), ...
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