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Medical Xpress / Autism, stimming and touch: Exploring differences in brain processing of active vs. passive touch
Tapping a pen, shaking a leg, twirling hair—we have all been in a classroom, meeting, or a public place where we find ourselves or someone else engaging in repetitive behavior—a type of self-stimulatory movement also ...
Medical Xpress / Dermatologists show promising results using combination therapy for vitiligo patients
The combination of a targeted oral medication with light therapy may enhance repigmentation for patients living with nonsegmental vitiligo, a team of researchers led by Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, Ph.D., Waldman Professor and ...
Medical Xpress / Neuroscience of dance: How the brain synchronizes movements in pairs
Dancing fluidly with another involves social coordination. This skill entails aligning movements with others while also processing dynamic sensory information, like sounds and visuals.
Medical Xpress / A mysterious pathogen: Oropouche virus more common in Latin America than previously thought
Like the dengue and Zika viruses, Oropouche virus causes a febrile illness. There are recent indications that infections during pregnancy can cause damage to unborn babies. Researchers at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin ...
Medical Xpress / Scalable technique for single-cell sequencing enhances drug screening research
A study by scientists at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) introduces a more cost-effective, scalable single-cell sequencing technique for co-sequencing RNA and DNA. The tool, called DEFND-seq (DNA and ...
Medical Xpress / Analysis finds steep increase of self-harm among California girls, multiracial youth
The number of California teens who have been treated for self-harm has ballooned in recent years, with an especially concerning increase among multiracial girls, according to new research from the University of California, ...
Medical Xpress / Yoga is as effective as strengthening exercises for knee osteoarthritis pain relief, study finds
Exercise therapy is suggested as a first-line treatment to improve joint pain and loss of function caused by osteoarthritis (OA), a musculoskeletal disorder that affects more than 595 million people worldwide. Yoga and strengthening ...
Medical Xpress / Acute and chronic stress have markedly different impacts on neural repair in a depression-linked brain region
Researchers at Zhejiang University found that acute stress increases natural repair mechanisms in the brain, while chronic stress suppresses them. Autophagy was most affected in the lateral habenula, a brain region linked ...
Medical Xpress / New strategy may enable cancer monitoring from blood tests alone
A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a ...
Medical Xpress / Neuron groups in mice spinal cord found responsible for encoding different types of pain
Humans and other animal species can experience many types of pain throughout the course of their lives, varying in intensity, unpleasantness and origin. Several past neuroscience studies have explored the neural underpinnings ...
Medical Xpress / Puberty triggers brain rewiring in genetic condition tied to autism, mouse study suggests
Changes in brain connectivity before and after puberty may explain why some children with a rare genetic disorder have a higher risk of developing autism or schizophrenia, according to a UCLA Health study.
Medical Xpress / Sex differences in carotid artery plaques and stroke symptoms revealed in new study
A new study published in Nature Cardiovascular Research found that while carotid artery narrowing can lead to stroke in both men and women, the symptoms and plaque characteristics often differ between the sexes. Even though ...