Psychology & Psychiatry
Testing during studying improves memory and inference
Research has shown that testing enhances memory. However, less is known on whether testing can improve a person's ability to make inferences.
Feb 18, 2020
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Medical research
Researchers recreating live-animal markets in the lab can see how pathogens jump species
Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now known as 2019-nCoV that's currently spreading across the globe as a human respiratory pathogen. Early reports indicate that the source ...
Feb 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers trace coronavirus outbreak in China to snakes
Emerging viral infections—from bird flu to Ebola to Zika infections—pose major threats to global public health, and understanding their origins can help investigators design defensive strategies against future outbreaks. ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
China's recent history of deadly epidemics
China has been the origin of several major viral epidemics over recent decades, with the current outbreak of a new deadly coronavirus emerging in the central city of Wuhan.
Jan 22, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Explainer: The virus behind China's pneumonia outbreak
Since late last year, people in the central Chinese city of Wuhan have been infected with a viral pneumonia whose cause was unknown. The outbreak raised the specter of another SARS epidemic, which killed hundreds in 2002 ...
Jan 9, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Germany reports landmark case of West Nile virus
Authorities are reporting the first known human case of West Nile virus transmitted by mosquitoes in Germany, a development apparently hastened by climate change.
Sep 27, 2019
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Neuroscience
Scientists identify brain region that enables young songbirds to change their tune
In a scientific first, Columbia scientists have demonstrated how the brains of young songbirds become tuned to the songs they learn while growing up.
Aug 12, 2019
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Neuroscience
Biologist leads pioneering study on stress
A biologist at Louisiana State University conducted a pioneering research study that could help us to better understand the role of dopamine in stress resilience in humans through analyzing wild songbirds. This study could ...
Jul 20, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Spanish flu may have lingered two years before 1918 outbreak and vaccine could have treated it
The most severe pandemic in recent history, killing some 50 million people worldwide, the Spanish influenza, may have emerged up to two years earlier than previously believed. And, according to a new and influential study, ...
May 24, 2019
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Health
CDC: Salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard poultry
(HealthDay)—Backyard flocks of live poultry have been linked with Salmonella outbreaks that have sickened 52 people in 21 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
May 20, 2019
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