Neuroscience
Study probes 'covert consciousness'
Ricardo Iriart last saw his wife conscious four years ago. Every day since, he has visited Ángeles, often spending hours talking to her in hopes that she could hear him.
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Childhood trauma may lead to more difficult births
Women who have been exposed to multiple traumatic experiences during childhood have more difficult births than others. They are much more likely to need emergency cesarean sections, suffer major hemorrhages or pre-eclampsia, ...
Dec 1, 2025
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Health
FDA tells consumers to toss 19 cookware items that may contain lead
A growing list of pots and pans is now considered unsafe, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging folks to check their kitchens and get rid of them right away.
Dec 1, 2025
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Inflammatory disorders
Hormone-disrupting chemicals from plastics shown to promote a chronic inflammatory skin condition
A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide evidence that hormone-disrupting ...
Dec 1, 2025
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HIV & AIDS
A molecule opens a breach in HIV, providing access to its reservoirs
An international team led by two Université de Montréal researchers has unveiled how a molecule capable of opening the "shell" of HIV improves the elimination of infected cells.
Dec 1, 2025
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Genetics
Switching risk and protective alleles improves Alzheimer's-disease-like signatures and disruptions in mice
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive degradation of brain cells, as well as an associated decline in memory and other mental functions. Earlier research found that different ...
Medical research
Singing mice speak volumes: Brain mechanisms behind song production explored in new research
All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston's singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 miles north, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) neuroscientists study these ...
Dec 1, 2025
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
For those living with dementia, new study suggests shingles vaccine could slow the disease
An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. In a new study led by Stanford Medicine, researchers analyzing the health records of Welsh ...
Dec 2, 2025
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Oncology & Cancer
Exercise slows tumor growth in mice by shifting glucose uptake to muscles
It's well known that exercise is good for health and helps to prevent serious diseases, like cancer and heart disease, along with simply making people feel better overall. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Early childhood patterns of picky eating can ripple through development for some
At the University of Oslo, psychologists and collaborators following Norwegian families identified a sizable group of children whose eating patterns centered on avoidant and restrictive intake and whose difficulties stretched ...
Oncology & Cancer
Overlooked hormone may be deadly driver of postmenopausal breast cancer in women with obesity
A new analysis of research into the most common type of breast cancer has zeroed in on an overlooked hormone that may be responsible for the increased risk of breast cancer death in postmenopausal women with obesity. It also ...
Dec 2, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Childhood instability accelerates women's sexual strategies, study suggests
California State University, Sacramento, researchers traced how disordered childhood social worlds in women connected to faster life history traits and greater mating effort, with those traits explaining 22.2% of the association ...
Medications
Pain med side effects may be masquerading as heart failure
Clinicians may fail to recognize common side effects of drugs like gabapentin—which are frequently prescribed for nerve pain—leading them to prescribe unnecessary medications that cause yet more side effects. This phenomenon, ...
Dec 2, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain researchers draw cellular blueprint for how we think and feel
A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and behavior.
Dec 2, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Chronic cannabis use, vomiting and compulsive bathing—symptoms of a hidden syndrome
Researchers at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois Chicago have found that cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a vomiting condition tied to chronic cannabis use, rose sharply in US emergency ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
'Brainquake' phenomenon links psychotic states to chaotic information flow
Some psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BP), can prompt the emergence of so-called psychotic states, mental states characterized by distorted thinking patterns, altered perceptions and ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Does mental illness have a silver lining? New paper says yes
An estimated one in five U.S. adults live with mental illnesses, conditions that are almost universally characterized by their negative consequences. But there are also positive attributes associated with psychological disorders— ...
Dec 3, 2025
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Health
Airplane and hospital air is cleaner than you might think
When it comes to the air in public places, germophobes can breathe a bit easier. According to a new Northwestern University study, the ambient air on airplanes and in hospitals mostly contains harmless microbes typically ...
Dec 3, 2025
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Genetics
Hidden cellular layers revealed in brain's memory center
Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have identified a previously unknown pattern of organization in one of the brain's most important ...
Dec 3, 2025
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Medications
Pegcetacoplan—the 'closest thing to a cure' for rare, severe kidney disease
A rare and life-threatening kidney disease in children finally has an effective therapy, thanks in large part to pioneering research and clinical leadership from University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children's Hospital.
Dec 3, 2025
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Health
Telling women they have dense breasts as part of mammography screening may have unintended effects
Recommendations introduced in Australia and being considered in the UK to tell women if they have dense breasts as part of their screening results may have unintended effects and increase demand on health services, finds ...
Dec 3, 2025
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Genetics
Comprehensive map reveals neuronal dendrites in the mouse brain in greater detail
Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other cells (i.e., dendrites) is a long-standing objective of neuroscience research. Ultimately, this ...
Oncology & Cancer
Antibody halts triple-negative breast cancer in preclinical models
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant forms of breast cancer. It grows quickly, spreads early and lacks the hormone receptors that make other breast cancers treatable with ...
Dec 4, 2025
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Oncology & Cancer
Modified herpes virus helps destroy glioblastoma in preclinical models
Researchers at Mass General Brigham have modified a herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) that stimulates the immune system to attack glioblastoma cells. A single dose of the modified virus increased T-cell, natural killer cell, and ...
Dec 4, 2025
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Neuroscience
Brain enzyme that drives nicotine addiction and smoking dependence identified
Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that reinforce repeated use and make quitting extremely difficult. For decades, scientists have focused ...
Dec 4, 2025
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Neuroscience
Single enzyme failure found to drive neuron loss in dementia
Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a mechanism that protects nerve cells from premature cell death, known as ferroptosis. The study provides ...
Dec 4, 2025
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Oncology & Cancer
Machine learning reveals how disordered protein regions contribute to cancer-causing condensates
Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities. Such abilities can include the formation of biomolecular condensates, "droplets" of concentrated proteins, DNA or RNA.
Dec 4, 2025
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Cardiology
Planned birth at term reduces pre-eclampsia in those at high risk, clinical trial finds
Planned birth at term reduces the incidence of preeclampsia in women at high risk of the condition, without increasing emergency Cesarean or neonatal unit admission, according to new trial results.
Dec 4, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Volcanic eruptions may have brought Black Death to Europe
Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most devastating pandemic in human history—to the shores of medieval Europe, new research has revealed.
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Oncology & Cancer
Structure of protein reveals how breast cancer cells survive in hostile conditions
UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps explain how these tumors resist environmental stress and thrive in acidic, low-oxygen environments ...
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dengue vaccine gains first major approval
The world's first single-dose vaccine to prevent dengue fever has been approved for licensure in one of the largest countries affected by the disease, following 16 years of research contributions by scientists at the University ...
17 hours ago
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Early Parkinson's predictor found in daily step count
Oxford's Big Data Institute and Nuffield Department of Population Health report that daily step counts may help identify who will later be diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, with lower activity patterns acting as an early ...
Neuroscience
Tricking the brain to make exercise feel easier
Why do some people find a short jog exhausting, while others seem to run effortlessly? Of course, part of the answer lies in training and muscle strength. But the brain also plays a role, particularly in how we perceive effort.
17 hours ago
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Neuroscience
People's sniffing behaviors predict what they are smelling, study shows
Humans and other animals actively sense their surrounding environment. This entails the deliberate adjustment of motor behavior involved in sensory sampling (i.e., movements of the eyes, ears and hands) in line with the stimulus ...
Neuroscience
Dance effective in fighting against cognitive decline in Parkinson's, study finds
A new study led by researchers at York University shows that dance can be beneficial in halting the cognitive decline associated with Parkinson's disease and, for some participants, they even showed signs of improvement. ...
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