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Medical Xpress / Social media likes may have a bigger influence on people with depression
One of the first things many people do after posting on social media is check how many likes they have and who has liked their content. This habit can be an instant mood booster when a post is popular.
Dialog / A natural compound steps into the estrogen arena
Uterine fibroids and endometriosis are two of the most common gynecologic diseases, affecting 15% to 80% of women of childbearing age. Existing treatments—hormonal drugs and selective estrogen receptor modulators—have side ...
Medical Xpress / Young blood stem cells rejuvenate aging immune systems in old mice
By freezing your own healthy blood stem cells in your 20s, thawing them and undergoing a stem cell transplant in your 40s or 50s, it might be possible to rejuvenate your blood-forming and immune systems. Science fiction? ...
Medical Xpress / How the brain's chemical messengers control consciousness and sleep
Scientists at Newcastle University's Neural Circuits Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the Blue Brain Project (EPFL, Switzerland) and leading institutions in Spain, have published a study that advances understanding ...
Medical Xpress / Regenerating tissues may rebuild order by amplifying tiny cell differences
FMI researchers and their collaborators have shown how regenerating intestinal tissue turns small initial differences between cells into stable patterns. The findings reveal a general principle for how tissues rebuild order ...
Medical Xpress / Dialing back stiffness may protect muscles in myotonic dystrophy
For decades, researchers studying myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) have focused on the disease's underlying genetic cause: a mutation that produces a toxic form of RNA, disrupting the normal processing of thousands of genetic ...
Medical Xpress / Microglia mechanism reveals why brain's stroke repair window closes
Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability worldwide and often results in impairments in movement, speech and cognition. While rehabilitation helps patients regain some lost functions, the brain's natural ...
Medical Xpress / The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
The development of the human brain is one of the most complex biological processes. During the first years of life, enormous changes take place in the brain that help optimize its functioning. In the first year alone, the ...
Medical Xpress / New method separates brain signals to show how complex actions are organized
A new Northwestern Medicine study has introduced a novel machine learning method for analyzing how the brain organizes complex behaviors, offering fresh evidence that neural activity is built from reusable "building blocks." ...
Medical Xpress / Brains of teens with autism 'tune in' less to unfamiliar voices, study finds
Like other teenagers, teens on the autism spectrum are itching to exercise their social muscles. They hope for new friends, fun with people who share their interests, maybe even a romantic relationship.
Medical Xpress / Advanced climate models used to estimate temperature-related suicide patterns by 2050
A large international team, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, wanted to know whether and how climate change might increase the number of temperature-related suicides around the world. Previous studies have ...
Medical Xpress / Is using screens to calm a child bad? It depends.
In "Llama Llama Mad at Mama," a popular children's book from 2007, a little Llama Llama goes to the grocery store with his mama and becomes overwhelmed by all the sounds, sights, smells and shopping decisions happening around ...
