Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers find a fine timeline between delusion and reality
The line between reality and delusion may be just a matter of time, a new Yale study suggests.
Oct 12, 2017
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Sleep disorders
Cost-effective imaging can determine patients' OSA risk and severity
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) affects approximately 34% of men and 17% of women within the adult population. Although sex, aging, and obesity are the main factors associated with OSA, research has shown that larger ...
Sep 12, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research dispels popular claims linking power poses to powers of persuasion
Strike a pose like Wonder Woman or Spider-Man – and the powers of persuasion are yours!
Sep 5, 2017
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Neuroscience
Magnetic stimulation of the brain improved awareness of subject's own cognitive abilities
Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki have succeeded for the first time ever in affecting metacognition of a tactile working memory task by combining neural pathway imaging and magnetic stimulation ...
Aug 29, 2017
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Immunology
Researchers identify biomarkers associated with chronic fatigue syndrome severity
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have linked chronic fatigue syndrome to variations in 17 immune-system signaling proteins, or cytokines, whose concentrations in the blood correlate with the disease's ...
Jul 31, 2017
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Neuroscience
Deep sleep maintains the learning efficiency of the brain
For the first time, researchers of the University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have demonstrated the causal context of why deep sleep is important to the learning efficiency of the human brain. ...
May 22, 2017
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Neuroscience
How the brain reacts to sleep deprivation
In a new study, scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich together with partners from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have investigated the molecular changes with which the human brain reacts to exceptionally long wake ...
Apr 5, 2017
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Neuroscience
Getting a leg up: Hand task training transfers motor knowledge to feet
The human brain's cerebellum controls the body's ability to tightly and accurately coordinate and time movements as fine as picking up a pin and as muscular as running a foot race. Now, Johns Hopkins researchers have added ...
Mar 30, 2017
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Neuroscience
Statistics method shows networks differ in epileptic brains
A novel statistical approach to analyzing patients with epilepsy has revealed details about their brains' internal networks. The findings may lead to better understanding and treatment of the disease, according to Rice University ...
Mar 6, 2017
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Surgery
Unipolar radiofrequency device safe, effective for face tightening
(HealthDay)—For subjects with facial laxity, a novel fractional unipolar radiofrequency (RF) device is safe and efficacious for facial tightening, according to a study published online Feb. 13 in the Journal of Cosmetic ...
Feb 17, 2017
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