Health
US pedestrian deaths decline for first time since pandemic
For the first time since the pandemic, it got a little safer to cross America's streets in 2023, new statistics show.
Jun 25, 2024
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Medical research
Pharmacy researchers shed light on how the brain processes the sense of touch
How does one distinguish the smoothness of silk or the coarse texture of sandpaper? Individuals' sense of touch is complex, requiring circuits in the brain to process incoming information much like a computer. These circuits ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Neuroscience
'Movies' with color and music visualize brain activity data in beautiful detail
Complex neuroimaging data can be explored through translation into an audiovisual format—a video with accompanying musical soundtrack—to help interpret what happens in the brain when performing certain behaviors.
Feb 21, 2024
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Pediatrics
Researchers: Our children are victims of road violence—we need to talk about the deadly norms of car use
The deaths and injuries caused by car drivers are an everyday occurrence. This road violence has become normalized. We take it for granted as the price we have to pay to use our cars.
Nov 2, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Q&A: How does daylight saving time affect sleep and mental health?
On Sunday, Nov. 5, parts of the world, including most of the United States and Canada, will participate in the annual ritual of setting their clocks an hour back to mark the end of daylight saving time.
Oct 31, 2023
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Medical research
'Good autoantibodies' could help against long COVID
Sometimes in the laboratory there are unexpected results. "Previously it had been observed that autoantibodies are common in severe COVID patients, those who end up in intensive care," says Jonathan Muri, postdoctoral fellow ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19: Modeling the shift from elimination to mitigation in Aotearoa New Zealand
For the first eighteen months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Aotearoa New Zealand focused on an elimination strategy to stamp out transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). By late 2021, the country was dealing with a major outbreak ...
Feb 1, 2023
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Health
Should we really do away with daylight saving time?
On Sunday, Nov. 6, parts of the world, including most of the United States and Canada, will participate in the annual ritual of setting their clocks an hour back to mark the end of daylight saving time.
Nov 4, 2022
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Neuroscience
Putting the brakes on heroin relapse
Neuroscientists from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report in Science Advances that star-shaped brain cells known as astrocytes can "turn off" neurons involved in relapse to heroin. Drug-related cues in the ...
Oct 5, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Rhythm' or 'drift'—new tools can help better understand human attention
Accepted theories of how people's visual attention behaves in situations with lots of stimuli, such as crossing a busy street, may need to be rethought.
Aug 22, 2022
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