Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder, study reveals

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain’s key language processing…

Newly discovered genetic mutation protects against Parkinson’s disease and offers hope for new therapies

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A previously unidentified genetic mutation in a small protein provides significant protection against Parkinson’s disease and offers a new direction for exploring potential treatments, according to…

Age-related alterations in the oscillatory dynamics serving verbal working memory processing

Effect of age on alpha and beta oscillations during the encoding, maintenance, and retrieval phases. Credit: 2023 Springer et al. A new research paper was published on the cover of…

New protein risk score shows strong clinical utility for predicting death from heart failure

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new protein risk score developed to predict the risk of death for persons with heart failure (HF) has demonstrated good calibration and may help clinicians…

Understanding the downstream procedures and complications associated with lung cancer screening

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study of more than 9,000 persons screened for lung cancer found that rates of downstream procedures and complications associated with screening are substantially higher in…

Biological agent trials for psoriasis rarely include patient images

Few randomized controlled trials involving biological agents for psoriasis treatment include patient images, according to a review published online on Nov. 15 in the Journal of Dermatological Treatment. Sam Polesie,…

Women with osteoporosis want to know their fracture risk

Most women with osteoporosis want to know their fracture risk, but only half have received this information from health care providers, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in…

Receipt of novel hormonal therapy for advanced prostate cancer varies with race

For Medicare beneficiaries with advanced prostate cancer (PCa), receipt of novel hormonal therapy (NHT) agents varies with race, according to a study published online Dec. 1 in JAMA Network Open.…

Beans beneficial for patients with history of colorectal neoplasia

Adding a cup of beans to the usual diet enhances the gut microbiome and regulates host markers associated with metabolic obesity and colorectal cancer, according to a study published in…

Healthy twins born to woman who was pregnant in each of her two uteruses

When Kelsey Hatcher’s twins share their birth story someday, their tale will truly be one in a million. Hatcher, who gave birth at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB),…