PTSD is a common and debilitating mental disorder that occurs after a traumatic event.
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A large new study from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium provides the first molecular genetic evidence that genetic influences play a role...
Professor Chad Jensen and grad student Kara Duraccio published research showing what helped heavy teens succeed in their weight loss goals.
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Most heavy teens' attempts to lose weight don't work, but a new study...
There is little awareness of the chemical components of cigarette smoke amongst US adults, even though many of them report having looked for relevant information. In a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, researchers from...
The report found strong evidence that drinking the equivalent of a small glass of wine or beer a day (about 10 grams alcohol content) increases pre-menopausal breast cancer risk by 5 percent and post-menopausal breast cancer risk by 9...
This map shows the 'degree centrality' of all the streets in central London. This reflects how many other streets are connected to each street, with blue representing simple streets with few connecting streets and red representing complex streets with...
Flightless Galapagos cormorant opening its tiny wings.(Stock image)
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The flightless cormorant is one of a diverse array of animals that live on the Galapagos Islands, which piqued Charles Darwin's scientific curiosity in the 1830s. He hypothesized...
East Asians and Westerners view handshakes differently, new research finds.
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Westerners view handshaking more positively than do East Asians, researchers report in a new study. Western men also rate handshakes initiated by men and women differently,...
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...
An MIT study of the neural circuits that underlie memory process reveals, for the first time, that memories are formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and the long-term storage location in the brain’s cortex. This image shows memory engram cells...
What impact may legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon have on teen marijuana use? Recent results from an Oregon Research Institute (ORI) study indicate that the influence of legalization on youth may depend on whether they were already using...
The prevalence of prescription opioids increased from 0.9 percent during 1995-1999 to 5.2 percent during 2010-2015 in male drivers, and from 1.4 percent to 7.3 percent in female drivers. (Stock image)
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The percentage of fatally injured...
