Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What does recovery from COVID-19 look like?
Unless you or someone you know has been infected with the coronavirus, it may be hard to imagine what it's like to have COVID-19—and recover from it.
May 20, 2020
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Medical research
Brain stimulation improves motor skill learning at older age
Even though we don't think about it, every movement we make in our daily life essentially consists of a sequence of smaller actions in a specific order. The only time we realize this is when we have to learn a new motor skill, ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Neuroscience
Seeing and hearing: How they interplay in the brain
As it is common experience, our senses do not work in complete isolation from the others: sight helps listening (and this is maybe why it is difficult to understand people when they speak with their mask on) but can also ...
Dec 6, 2021
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Genetics
Twin study is first to reveal genetic risk factors for PTSD and migraine
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and migraine often co-occur, but researchers knew relatively little about how or why this happens. A new study in Frontiers in Neuroscience is the first to investigate if the conditions ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why does music bring back memories? What the science says
You're walking down a busy street on your way to work. You pass a busker playing a song you haven't heard in years. Now suddenly, instead of noticing all the goings on in the city around you, you're mentally reliving the ...
Mar 10, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Moving house related to behavioral difficulties in four-year-olds, study finds
Moving house is linked with increases in emotional and behavioral difficulties in four-year-olds, with the problems compounding each time a family moves, researchers have found.
Aug 13, 2019
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Neuroscience
People are more likely to see males when they see faces in everyday objects
Seeing faces in everyday objects is a common experience, but research from The University of Queensland has found people are more likely to see male faces when they see an image on the trunk of a tree or in burnt toast over ...
Jan 25, 2022
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Medications
For Alzheimer's patients, a controversial drug brings hope
At 53, Michele Hall was at the height of her legal career. She'd just sent her three kids to college. She had decades ahead with her husband Doug—after nearly 30 years of marriage, the couple looked forward to celebrating ...
Oct 14, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How our environment affects what we remember
It is a common experience that, when you share memories with a friend, you can recount some events in much more detail than others, while other times, you mix up memories. But why do our memories change? It is all about the ...
Mar 10, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Five things coronavirus can teach us about life and death
The COVID-19 pandemic and the wall-to-wall news coverage that has come with it has changed many of our lives seemingly overnight. In the UK, as in many countries, this news coverage includes a daily death toll. For the first ...
Apr 15, 2020
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