Psychology & Psychiatry
Five common thinking traps and how to avoid them
Have you ever fallen into a thinking trap?
Aug 31, 2021
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News tagged with traps
Health
High air pollution exposure in one-year-olds linked to structural brain changes at age 12
A new study suggests that significant early childhood exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is associated with structural changes in the brain at the age of 12.
Jan 24, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Trapping female mosquitoes helps curb chikungunya virus
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently developed an Autocidal Gravid Ovitrap (AGP trap) that attracts and captures female mosquitos looking for a site to lay eggs. Now, researchers writing in PLOS ...
Jul 25, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Capturing mosquito waste could speed up virus detection
Public health officials could soon be able to detect viruses in mosquitoes in the wild much more quickly and easily—thanks to the insect equivalent of a urine test.
Apr 4, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sink traps are surprising source of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in ICU
During a nationwide outbreak of healthcare-associated infections of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, an Israeli hospital traced repeated infections of patients in its intensive care unit (ICU) to an unexpected source—sink ...
Oct 5, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
New inflammatory biomarker predicts elevated thrombosis risk in cancer patients
Cancer patients are known to have an increased risk of thrombosis. As part of the CATS study, MedUni Vienna researchers have now investigated a correlation between an activated immune system in cancer patients and their risk ...
Sep 26, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Researcher patents 'roach motel' for cancer
The University of Texas at Arlington has successfully patented in Europe an implantable medical device that attracts and kills circulating cancer cells that was invented by a faculty member. This cancer trap can be used for ...
May 14, 2018
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Neuroscience
Study shines a light to understand the body's balance system
Finding out what's happening in the brains of people with balance disorders, such as vertigo, might be one step closer following new research on the vestibular system, which controls balance and movement.
Oct 5, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Key protein in prostate cancer energy production identified
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have demonstrated how a protein called TRAP1 - an important regulator of energy production in healthy and cancerous cells - is an important driver of prostate cancer and appears to be a ...
Nov 9, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mosquito trap company surprised by demand amid Zika outbreak
The German manufacturer of traps widely used to monitor mosquitoes that carry Zika says the "enormous demand" due to the virus outbreak caught the company off-guard.
May 27, 2016
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