Psychology & Psychiatry
What do we mean by meaning? Science can help with that
Most of us want our lives to have meaning. But what do we mean by meaning? What is meaning?
Mar 15, 2019
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News tagged with information sciences
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New insights into eye damage in Alzheimer's disease patients
Cedars-Sinai investigators have produced the most extensive analysis to date of changes in the retina—a layer of tissue at the back of the eye where visual information originates—and how those retinal changes correspond ...
Mar 3, 2023
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Medical research
Brain regions vulnerable to disease may lack adequate energy from blood supply
Areas of the brain vulnerable to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease tend to have less-dense vascular networks—which supply the brain with energy via blood—than other areas of the brain, according to ...
Jul 8, 2022
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Neuroscience
Activating the 'mind's eye': Scientists teach blind to read, recognize objects with sounds (w/ Video)
Common wisdom has it that if the visual cortex in the brain is deprived of visual information in early infanthood, it may never develop properly its functional specialization, making sight restoration later in life almost ...
Nov 7, 2012
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Health
Why anti-vaccine beliefs and ideas spread so fast on the internet
There's been a recent increase globally in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. This can be seen in recent measles outbreaks in parts of the world where it was thought to have been eradicated.
Feb 13, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Trust in public health agencies during COVID-19 driven by beliefs that agencies led with science-based recommendations
In the first nationally representative survey of U.S. adults on reasons for trust in federal, state, and local public health agencies' information during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Ophthalmology
New deep-learning model helps the automated screening of common eye disorders
Automation in disease diagnosis is reliant on deep learning models that can accurately and efficiently identify measurements of tumors, tissue volume, or other sorts of abnormalities. Now, researchers from Tohoku University ...
Jun 24, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study: 'Hexaplex' vaccine aims to boost flu protection
Recombinant protein vaccines, like the Novavax vaccine used to fight COVID-19, offer several advantages over conventional vaccines. They're easy to produce precisely. They're safe and potentially more effective. And they ...
Feb 23, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New research sheds light on how we see family resemblance in faces
Whether comparing a man and a woman or a parent and a baby, we can still see when two people of different age or sex are genetically related. How do we know that people are part of a family? Findings from a new study published ...
Nov 21, 2011
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Health
Quantifying the live microbes on your plate
Many have hypothesized that bacteria and other "friendly" live microorganisms consumed through the diet can play an important role in health. Reduction in dietary microbe consumption has likely contributed to an "impoverished" ...
May 18, 2022
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