Neuroscience
How imperfect memory causes poor choices
Quick: Pick your three favorite fast-food restaurants.
May 12, 2021
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Neuroscience
How does the brain flexibly process complex information?
Human decision-making depends on the flexible processing of complex information, but how the brain may adapt processing to momentary task demands has remained unclear. In a new article published in the journal Nature Communications, ...
Apr 29, 2021
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Overweight & Obesity
AGA recommends intragastric balloons as an additional weight loss strategy for obese patients
Obesity is a global pandemic, affecting about 40% of adults in the United States. There is an enormous unmet need for an effective weight-loss solution. After a detailed review of available literature, the American Gastroenterological ...
Apr 6, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychedelic drugs: how the brains of informed users are different
There is a new generation of drug users out there who possess highly detailed pharmacological and technical knowledge about the drugs they take. "Psychonauts" (meaning "navigator of the soul") are enthusiastic and deliberate ...
Mar 24, 2021
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Neuroscience
Making decisions based on how we feel about memories, not accuracy
When we recall a memory, we retrieve specific details about it: where, when, with whom. But we often also experience a vivid feeling of remembering the event, sometimes almost reliving it. Memory researchers call these processes ...
Mar 10, 2021
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Health
Charity's pharma investments raise questions around transparency and accountability
The Wellcome Trust, one of the world's top funders of health research, stands to gain financially from the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions about transparency and accountability, reports The BMJ today.
Mar 3, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Perception critical to women's breast reconstruction decision making
When women undergo surgical treatment for breast cancer, they often also have reconstructive surgery but new QUT research reveals many women feel left out of the decision making.
Feb 18, 2021
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Neuroscience
How messenger substances influence individual decision-making
Studies indicate that different parts of the brain are responsible for different types of decisions. A research team led by Luca Franziska Kaiser and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jocham from the HHU working group "Biological Psychology ...
Feb 10, 2021
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Neuroscience
Watching decision-making in the brain
In the course of deciding whether to keep reading this article, you may change your mind several times. While your final choice will be obvious to an observer—you'll continue to scroll and read, or you'll click on another ...
Jan 25, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19: Online tool identifies patients at highest risk of deterioration
A new risk-stratification tool which can accurately predict the likelihood of deterioration in adults hospitalised with COVID-19 has been developed by researchers from the UK Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation Consortium ...
Jan 8, 2021
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