Neuroscience
Show your fingers to a neuroscientist
By comparing your index and ring fingers, a neuroscientist can tell if you are likely to be anxious, or if you are likely to be a good athlete.
Oct 12, 2016
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News tagged with ring
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Wearable sensor may signal you're developing COVID-19—even if your symptoms are subtle
A smart ring that generates continuous temperature data may foreshadow COVID-19, even in cases when infection is not suspected. The device, which may be a better illness indicator than a thermometer, could lead to earlier ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers discover biomarkers of ALS in teeth
Mount Sinai scientists have identified biological markers present in childhood that relate to the degenerative and often fatal neurological disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, ...
May 21, 2020
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Neuroscience
Finger length clue to motor neuron disease
(Medical Xpress) -- People with the commonest form of motor neuron disease (MND) called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are more likely to have relatively long ring fingers, reveals research from the Institute of Psychiatry ...
May 11, 2011
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Medical research
Teeth serve as 'archive of life,' new research finds
Teeth constitute a permanent and faithful biological archive of the entirety of the individual's life, from tooth formation to death, a team of researchers has found. Its work provides new evidence of the impact that events, ...
Mar 25, 2020
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Other
2D:4D ratio is not related to sex-determined finger size differences in men and women: study
The ratios between the lengths of the second and fourth fingers, known as the 2D:4D ratio, are different in males and females, which is often explained by levels of androgens and oestrogens. However, an alternative theory ...
Jul 8, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Verbal aggression: You may have picked it up in the womb, says new study
(Medical Xpress)—Research on the communication trait of verbal aggressiveness, which includes behavior like name calling, ridicule, insults, racial epithets and threats, has tended to focus on its social causes.
Jan 7, 2013
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Medications
Cancer therapy using on-site synthesis of anticancer drugs
An international research group at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) has successfully treated cancer in mice using metal catalysts that assemble anticancer drugs together inside the body. Published in the scientific ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Hands in people with diabetes more often affected by trigger finger
Locked fingers, known as trigger finger, are more common among people with diabetes than in the general population. A study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that the risk of being affected increases in the case of high ...
Oct 19, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
S.Africa to roll out vaginal rings to fight HIV scourge
A "revolutionary" vaginal ring to prevent HIV is soon to be rolled out in South Africa—which has the largest epidemic of the virus in the world, a global financing partnership said on Friday.
Sep 29, 2023
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