The term "doomscrolling" describes the act of endlessly scrolling through bad news on social media and reading every worrisome tidbit that pops up, a habit that unfortunately seems to have become common during the COVID-19 ...
Jun 11, 2021
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If there's a final frontier in understanding the human body, it's definitely not the pinky. It's the brain.
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Researchers have found an imbalance in the brain chemistry of young people addicted to smartphones and the internet, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America ...
Nov 30, 2017
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A new map of brain tissue in people with HIV shows atrophy in several areas including a primary neurocognitive control center where shrinkage and loss of function can be seen in scans before clinical symptoms appear.
Mar 28, 2019
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Fentanyl, a mu-opioid receptor agonist, is one of the most commonly used analgesics in hospitals, and may induce long-lasting behavioral and somatosensory impairment in rodents. However, whether the use of fentanyl is associated ...
Jun 14, 2022
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Birds do it. Bees do it. Even little kids picking strawberries do it.
Jun 6, 2011
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Researchers from the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Center of the University of Granada have analyzed the brain of aggressors against intimate partners through functional magnetic resonance imaging, making it one of only three ...
Apr 15, 2016
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Scientists from Oxford University and UCL have identified part of our brain that helps us learn to be good to other people. The discovery could help understanding of conditions like psychopathy where people's behaviour is ...
Aug 15, 2016
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Philosophers have long struggled to define human consciousness. Now, a team of researchers led by neurologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has pinpointed the regions of the brain that may play a role maintaining ...
Nov 4, 2016
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Many of the choices we make are informed by experiences we've had in the past. But occasionally we're better off abandoning those lessons and exploring a new situation unfettered by past experiences. Scientists at the Howard ...
Sep 25, 2014
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