Neuroscience
The brain: How to optimize decision making?
UNIGE researchers demonstrate that our brains do not make decisions based on their inherent value but for what they offer above and beyond other possible propositions.
Sep 11, 2019
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News tagged with optimal strategies
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Hormone could slow Alzheimer's progression
Queen's University researcher Fernanda De Felice (Psychiatry), along with co-authors from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, have identified an exercise-linked hormone that could slow the progression of Alzheimer's ...
Jan 8, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Study supports germline testing for all metastatic breast cancer patients
Genetic testing for all metastatic breast cancer patients may be an optimal strategy for identifying additional patients with increased risk as well as response to targeted therapies, according to research published in JAMA ...
Sep 9, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How and when to end the COVID-19 lockdown: An optimization approach
Countries around the world are in a state of lockdown to help limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2. However, as the number of new daily confirmed cases begins to decrease, governments must decide how to release their populations ...
May 6, 2020
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Medications
Researchers study relationship between epilepsy drug and Alzheimer's disease
Researchers from an Indiana University School of Medicine-led consortium of Alzheimer's disease experts are studying how an anti-seizure drug used to treat epilepsy in children and adults could be repurposed as a potential ...
Nov 30, 2022
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Neuroscience
Study decodes surprising approach mice take in learning
Neuroscience discoveries ranging from the nature of memory to treatments for disease have depended on reading the minds of mice, so researchers need to truly understand what the rodents' behavior is telling them during experiments. ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Medications
Full-dose anticoagulation treatment prevented blood clots in COVID-19 patients
A clinical trial of patients with COVID-19 led by investigators at the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network (CCCTN) has found that full-dose anticoagulation lowers ...
Aug 29, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists predict the best strategy for lifting COVID-19 lockdown
As the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic wanes in Europe, many countries are relaxing their lockdown rules, but the advice for non-essential workers is to continue working from home if possible. The important question when ...
Jun 10, 2020
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Cardiology
Trial finds best strategy to select non-infarct–related artery lesions for intervention
Selection of non-infarct related artery (IRA) lesions for intervention using fractional flow reserve (FFR) is superior to routine angiography-based selection in patients with acute myocardial infarction and multivessel disease. ...
Aug 29, 2022
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Medical economics
Who should get vaccinated first where supplies are limited?
Nearly a year after many rich nations achieved widespread vaccination against COVID-19, many less affluent countries still face difficult choices about which groups of people should be the first to receive vaccines from a ...
Jun 15, 2022
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