"Oh my God, he's bored," said Simone Haller, Ph.D., who jokingly recalled seeing a colleague's neutral facial expression during a recent presentation. The situation was a unique moment for Haller, who studies bias and emotional ...
Aug 15, 2023
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University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers are taking the foot off the brake in their quest to improve opioid therapy while decreasing its side effects.
May 15, 2023
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Cambridge scientists have shown how the brain's ability to clear out toxic proteins is impaired in Huntington's disease and other forms of dementia—and how, in a study in mice, a repurposed HIV drug was able to restore ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Between the time you read the Wi-Fi password off the café's menu board and the time you can get back to your laptop to enter it, you have to hold it in mind. If you've ever wondered how your brain does that, you are asking ...
Dec 29, 2022
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When you think about the future, do you expect good or bad things to happen?
Dec 20, 2022
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What does having a particular artist on repeat tell us about how to—or how not to—navigate our romantic lives, friendships and family ties? Whether it's Adele or The Weeknd on your go-to playlist, the lyrics can say a ...
Nov 11, 2022
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Failure may be an inevitable part of life, but that doesn't make it any less painful when it does happen. It can be be particularly hard facing setbacks in your 20s and 30s, since this is the first time many of us are experiencing ...
Nov 10, 2022
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UW Medicine researchers have found that algorithms are as good as trained human evaluators at identifying red-flag language in text messages from people with serious mental illness. This opens a promising area of study that ...
Oct 11, 2022
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The bacterial toxin botulinum toxin (BTX)—colloquially known as Botox—is probably known to most people as a remedy for wrinkles. But botulinum toxin can do even more: if it is injected into the forehead, for example, ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Therapeutically inhibiting a metabolic regulator in monocytes unexpectedly increased inflammatory signaling, according to a study published in the journal Communications Biology.
Sep 16, 2022
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