Neuroscience
A high-sugar diet decreases ability to sense sweetness in rats
For many people, a high-sugar diet has become almost accidental.
Oct 13, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
More than half of COVID patients suffer long COVID symptoms, suggests study
Various long-term effects have been found to occur after infection by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and the reality of these lingering symptoms remains unknown. These unknown factors continue to contribute to a general ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Neuroscience
New evidence for a human magnetic sense that lets your brain detect the Earth's magnetic field
Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles and birds navigate through the world.
Mar 19, 2019
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Ophthalmology
New stem cell approach for blindness successful in mice (w/ video)
(Medical Xpress)—Blind mice can see again, after Oxford University researchers transplanted developing cells into their eyes and found they could re-form the entire light-sensitive layer of the retina.
Jan 8, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Inflammation caused by COVID-19, rather than the virus itself, may lead to loss of smell
Anosmia, the loss of smell, is a frequent and often long-term symptom associated with COVID-19 that can severely burden a person's quality of life, making it extremely difficult to taste foods, detect airborne hazards in ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
You can wash away your troubles, with soap
"Wash away my troubles, wash away my pain," goes the song. Is there such a thing as soap and water for the psyche? Yes: Metaphor is that powerful, say Spike W.S. Lee and Norbert Schwarz of the University of Michigan in a ...
Oct 5, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research explores common visual error of 'boundary extension'
(Medical Xpress) -- Helene Intraub, professor of psychology at the University of Delaware, and then-undergraduate researcher Mike Richardson first published their paper on the phenomenon of "boundary extension" in 1989, describing ...
Mar 9, 2012
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Medical research
Researchers restore injured man's sense of touch using brain-computer interface technology
While we might often take our sense of touch for granted, for researchers developing technologies to restore limb function in people paralyzed due to spinal cord injury or disease, re-establishing the sense of touch is an ...
Apr 23, 2020
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Medications
Prednisolone does not improve sense of smell after COVID-19
In a study executed by University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, it has been demonstrated that prednisolone does not improve a patient's sense of smell after COVID-19. In addition, in most patients—irrespective of prednisolone ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Neuroscience
Study uncovers mechanism behind loss of smell in Parkinson's patients
Parkinson's disease is an illness well known for its motor symptoms—tremor, stiffness, and slowness of movement. In a new paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience and featured on its cover, researchers at Yale School ...
Apr 21, 2023
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