What Our Wandering Thoughts Can Teach Us About Mental Health University of Arizona researchers analyzed idle thoughts for 10 minutes. What they learned may be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues such as depression. ...
Rats were trained to depress a lever and then release it when the sound reached a certain frequency. Credit: Illustration by Julia Kuhl The part of the brain that creates mental maps of one's environment plays a much broader role in...
In type 1 diabetes, autoreactive T-cells attack insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas (frame 1). Fiorina and colleagues showed that the network of genetic regulatory factors controlling production of a protein called PD-L1 is altered in blood stem cells...
Hypodermic needle (stock image). Credit: © Nicola De Mitri / Fotolia Results from the first phase 1 trial of an Ebola vaccine based on the current (2014) strain of the virus are today published in The Lancet. Until now, all tested...
Evidence Points to Animal Market, Not Lab, as Epicenter of Pandemic In a new paper published in Science, UArizona virus expert Michael Worobey connects the dots from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and shows that an origin other than...
The world remains "grossly underprepared" for outbreaks of infectious disease, which are likely to become more frequent in the coming decades, warn a team of international experts in The BMJ. They reviewed reports on the recent Ebola virus outbreak in...
Urban air pollution in the city of Beirut. Credit: © disq / Fotolia Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is a Commissioner and author of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health that has released a report detailing the...
New University of Nevada, Reno and The Open University research study used two new approaches to determine ranges of the best times of day for learning for college-age students. Credit: University of Nevada, Reno A new cognitive research study used two...
"You win some, you lose some." Using the word "you" suggests it could happen to anyone. Credit: © Jakub Jirsák / Fotolia Researchers say it may seem contradictory that a means of generalizing to people at large is used when reflecting...
This is Domenico Praticò, MD, Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Microbiology and the Center for Translational Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Credit: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. The Mediterranean diet,...
Image Credit: Flickr/zoriah A new study suggests that the 'neighborhood effect' of slums could help to alleviate some of their associated health problems. A team of academics led by Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick have conducted a review of international...