Credit: CC0 Public Domain For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person’s full set of DNA they study to a template that relies mostly on genetic material from one…
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Both metabolically healthy and unhealthy forms of obesity found to increase risk of obesity-related cancers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research to be presented at this coming week’s European Congress on Obesity in Dublin, Ireland (May 17–20) and published in the Journal of the National…
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…
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…
