For decades, scientists have examined how regions of the brain communicate to understand autism. Researchers at University of Utah Health believe the symptoms of autism may result from sustained connections between regions ...
Nov 16, 2018
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Cancer hides in plain sight of the immune system. The body's natural tumor surveillance programs should be able to detect and attack rogue cancer cells when they arise, and yet when cancer thrives, it does so because these ...
Jun 29, 2017
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Calm body, calm mind, say the practitioners of mindfulness. A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that the idea that the body and mind are inextricably intertwined is ...
Apr 19, 2023
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You're driving on a busy road and you intend to switch lanes when you suddenly realize that there's a car in your blind spot. You have to put a stop to your lane change—and quickly.
Aug 26, 2015
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paying attention to one's current experience in a non-judgmental way—might help us to learn more about our own personalities, according to a new article published in the March 2013 issue of Perspectives on Psychological ...
Mar 14, 2013
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In the wake of suicides by Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, we as a nation are newly sobered by depression's threat to the public health. Depression is a common mood condition considered by the World Health Organization to ...
Jun 29, 2018
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You've probably never noticed, but the human eye includes an unavoidable blind spot. That's because the optic nerve that sends visual signals to the brain must pass through the retina, which creates a hole in that light-sensitive ...
Aug 31, 2015
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Experts estimate up to one third of people attending specialist memory clinics could have a condition that is commonly mistaken for early dementia.
Aug 17, 2020
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Humans treat 'inferred' visual objects generated by the brain as more reliable than external images from the real world, according to new research published in eLife.
May 16, 2017
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U.S. regulators have historically inspected baby formula plants at least once a year, but they did not inspect any of the three biggest manufacturers in 2020, according to federal records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Jun 13, 2022
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