Summary: Decriminalizing cannabis or using tightly controlled legal frameworks does not increase use. However, the fully commercialized, for-profit legal markets seen in the US and Canada drive increased health risks,…
Category: Life
Andrés F. Ramírez-Mejía | The commonness of rarity: why there are so many rare species – Functional Ecologists
In this week’s blog post, we’re discovering how common it is to be rare! Through his paper: “Functional divergence drives the prevalence of low-abundance species in bat assemblages”, author Andrés…
A textbook assumption about early land vertebrates may be wrong
New fossil evidence is overturning a long-held assumption about how vertebrates first transitioned from water to land. The hatchlings of three different animals related to the earliest land-goers show that…
Brain Inflammation Linked to Chronic Depression and Anxiety
Summary: A global meta-analysis of over 4,700 survivors has revealed that psychiatric and behavioral complications, such as depression, anxiety, and emotional instability, are widespread following encephalitis (brain inflammation). Researchers found…
TBI and Common Neurological Conditions Accelerate One Another
Summary: A study of 55,204 older veterans demonstrates a dangerous bi-directional risk loop between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and neurological diseases.The research found that older adults who sustained a TBI…
Probiotics Show Promise as Add-On Treatment for Depression
Summary: Adding probiotic therapy to standard care can provide modest but meaningful relief for older adults suffering from moderate depression. The study monitored 58 participants aged 60 and older over…
A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading
WASHINGTON — Microbiologists are used to looking at gross pictures and hearing scary statistics. So when a moderator of a session on emerging fungal infections at the ASM Microbe meeting…
How real is the Cyclops in ‘The Odyssey’?
The iconic one-eyed monster coming to movie screens in July in The Odyssey might have more in common with tiny water critters than with humans.
