Indian man awakes on funeral pyre

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An Indian man awoke on a funeral pyre moments before it was to be set on fire after a doctor skipped a postmortem, medical officials said…

New insights into sleep uncover mechanisms with broad implications for boosting brainpower

Credit: AI-generated image While it’s well known that sleep enhances cognitive performance, the underlying neural mechanisms, particularly those related to nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, remain largely unexplored. A new…

Younger patients more affected by neurologic manifestations of long COVID

Younger and middle-aged patients seem to be disproportionately affected by neurologic manifestations of postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection (Neuro-PASC), according to a study published online…

Cardiology collaboration advances machine learning predictions for AFib after stroke

Visualization of an individual data sample as a P-QRS-T wave progression viewed from 12 leads. Credit: Heart Rhythm (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.07.061 Researchers at Penn State are using machine learning and…

Racial and geographic health disparities in the US have increased over the last two decades, research shows

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Life expectancy in the U.S. varies by more than 20 years depending on an individual’s race and ethnicity and where they live. These widespread and persistent…

Dental expert discusses what to know about your temporomandibular joint

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In recognition of National Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Awareness Month, Dr. Seema Kurup, associate professor and division chair of Oral Medicine and Orofacial Pain at the UConn…

Presence of white spots on MRI brain scans linked to genetic risk of dementia in older adults

Association between white matter hyperintensities and cortical thickness. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53689-1 They show up as bright white spots when you get a brain MRI: lesions called white…

Major genetic defect linked to female infertility identified

Manhattan plots for female infertility. Credit: The American Journal of Human Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.10.018 Up to 15% of all couples suffer from infertility at some point in their lives.…

Social connections change our microbiomes, study of isolated villages suggests

The researchers mapped the social networks and collected microbiome data of residents of 18 remote villages in Honduras. Credit: Human Nature Lab at Yale Friends tend to share common interests,…

Large-scale genetic study identifies 14 genes linked to neuroticism

Study overview. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-02045-w Neuroticism is a key personality trait described by well-established psychological theories, associated with a tendency towards emotional instability and negative emotions.…