Binge eating linked to habit circuitry in the brain

Types of eating behavior and binge eating frequency. Relationship between Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire a) Restrained (ρ=-0.11, p=0.55), b) Emotional (ρ=0.32, p=0.063), and c) Externally Driven Eating (ρ=0.44, p=0.0092) with…

Restoring control to a particular brain region may help to prevent return to use of opioids

Pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex labeled with a retrograde virus tagged with mCherry. Credit: Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Jacqueline McGinty. A team of neuroscientists at the Medical…

Steroids linked to long-lasting heart disease risk and worse quality of life

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Anabolic steroids not only can cause serious side effects during use, such as heart failure and depression, but can continue being harmful years after stopping, according…

Prowess, persistence yield first-anywhere heart procedure

Dr. James McCabe displays a clothespin-like MitraClip like the one he detached and removed via catheter from John Steenmeyer’s heart.  Credit: UW Medicine photo Cardiologists at the UW Medicine Heart…

Where do psychedelics users find trusted information?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Against the backdrop of some 50 years of legal prohibitions, interest and activity surrounding psychedelics has been surging in recent decades. From new clinical research into…

Research pinpoints the time of year and hour when people have the strongest suicidal thoughts

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research has identified the month when people have the strongest suicidal thoughts, and that these thoughts occur a few months before the peak of suicide…

Is that the right call?

Credit: CC0/Unsplash The COVID-19 emergency is over. After three years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the virus “no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.”…

Experiment shows thoughts influence tactile perception

Two needles or just one? How we perceive it depends on the distance between the two needles. Credit: Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum If we sincerely believe that our index finger is five times…

Gynecologic surgery increases risk of cardiovascular disease

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study showed that hysterectomy alone, hysterectomy with oophorectomy, and tubal ligation were all associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The findings…

How studying cell movement during embryonic development may offer new insights into cancer metastasis

Under the microscope, MSK scientists studied how cells in a mouse embryo (green) move out and break away from their original tissue by contracting their surfaces (red). Studying this process,…