Feeling overwhelmed, anxious and agitated are among the symptoms associated with high levels of cognitive stress. Conversely, loss of cognitive engagement might also prevent individuals from following their goals. A low level ...
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Heatwaves have a huge impact on our physical and mental health. Doctors usually dread them, as emergency rooms quickly fill up with patients suffering from dehydration, delirium and fainting. Recent studies suggest at least ...
Jul 12, 2022
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Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) come under attack by their immune system, producing 'autoantibodies' that inflict damage throughout the body. Antibodies normally target foreign proteins, but SLE autoantibodies ...
Mar 13, 2013
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Visual feedback is just as important as a sense of body position when it comes to the involuntary reflexes that activate muscle movement, says a new study in the open-access journal eLife.
Mar 31, 2020
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In some forms of epilepsy, the function of certain "brake cells" in the brain is presumed to be disrupted. This may be one of the reasons why the electrical malfunction is able to spread from the point of origin across large ...
Oct 1, 2019
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"Closing the loop" has become one of the jargony cliches of the business world. But in the world of cancer immunotherapy, closing the loop could be an innovation that unlocks powerful therapies for hard-to-treat brain cancers ...
Nov 29, 2022
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The World Health Organization has estimated that 1.5 billion people live on less than $1 a day. One of the mechanisms through which poverty perpetuates itself may be psychological: Being poor seems to create greater levels ...
May 27, 2014
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Published in Nature Communications, an international collaboration between researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies investigated how highly organized patterns of neural activity ...
May 21, 2024
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New research from a team based at the University of Waterloo suggests that the time of day and a patient's sex may alter the effectiveness of certain blood pressure medications.
Apr 19, 2023
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People with Type 1 diabetes—including U of A graduate student Jonathan Garfinkel—are using free instructions from the internet to build an artificial pancreas.
May 28, 2020
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