The touch of another person may increase levels of the "feel-good" hormone oxytocin. But the context really matters. The situation impacts oxytocin levels not only in the moment, but also later, as is shown by researchers ...
May 9, 2023
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Talking on a mobile for 30 minutes or more per week is linked with a 12% increased risk of high blood pressure compared with less than 30 minutes, according to research published today in European Heart Journal—Digital ...
May 4, 2023
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University of Alberta researchers have identified a neurochemical marker related to the loss of motor function and communication breakdown between the primary motor cortex—the part of the brain that controls our muscles—and ...
May 4, 2023
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US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly on Wednesday announced its experimental Alzheimer's drug significantly slowed cognitive and functional decline, results hailed as "remarkable" by experts despite some patients experiencing ...
May 3, 2023
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For many decades, neuroscientists believed there was a "critical period" in which the brain could learn to make sense of visual input, and that this window closed around the age of 6 or 7.
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Doug Millay, Ph.D., a scientist with the Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology at Cincinnati Children's has dedicated his career to revealing the most fundamental mechanisms of skeletal muscle development. He has been ...
Apr 28, 2023
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Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Princeton University have discovered a novel genetic disorder associated with neurodevelopmental differences. The discovery identified the disorder in 21 families ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have unraveled the processes that give astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell in the brain, their special bushy shape, which is fundamental for brain function. They report in the ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Approximately 40% of persons with diabetes develop chronic kidney disease, leading to successive deterioration and even the complete loss of kidney function. Until now, it has not been possible to predict whether and at what ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Usher syndrome, a rare inherited genetic disease, is a leading cause of combined deafness and blindness with type 2A (USH2A) being the most common form. USH2A, caused by mutations in the USH2A gene, can include hearing loss ...
Apr 17, 2023
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