Protein alteration in the family of lamins causes several diseases, known as laminopathies, such as progeria or precocious aging. A study in which UB researchers have taken part states that alterations in the levels of one ...
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Addiction, or substance use disorder (SUD), is a complex neurological condition that includes drug-seeking behavior among other cognitive, emotional and behavioral features. Synaptic plasticity, or changes in the way neurons ...
Jan 26, 2021
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UCLA researchers have identified a potential diagnostic marker that could help predict how likely someone with cervical cancer is to respond to the standard treatment of chemotherapy and radiation.
Dec 11, 2020
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Anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are disabling psychiatric conditions, and major contributors to the global burden of nonfatal illness. The lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders in adults under ...
Dec 2, 2020
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Nucleus accumbens in the brain play a central role in the risk-reward circuit. Their operation is based chiefly on three essential neurotransmitters: dopamine, which promotes desire; serotonin, whose effects include satiety ...
Oct 29, 2020
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Drugs of abuse, like cocaine, are very addictive due in part to their cellular interaction, creating strong cellular memories in the brain that promote compulsive behaviors. Researchers have tried to understand the formation ...
Oct 15, 2020
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Researchers in Spain have identified a non-coding RNA molecule that helps lung cancer cells proliferate and avoid being killed by the body's immune cells. The study, which will be published August 27 in the Journal of Cell ...
Aug 27, 2020
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Food cravings are very familiar to most people. We may see or smell food and want to eat, or sometimes we suddenly feel like eating something delicious. These intense desires occur even when we're not hungry and can be very ...
Aug 18, 2020
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When couples argue, mediation by a third party improves the outcome of the confrontation. But that's not all: mediation is also linked to heightened activity in key regions of the brain belonging to the reward circuit—this ...
Jul 29, 2020
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In the first study to comprehensively track how different types of brain cells respond to the mutation that causes Huntington's disease (HD), MIT neuroscientists found that a significant cause of death for an especially afflicted ...
Jul 17, 2020
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