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Medical Xpress / Cross-cultural analysis challenges Western-dominated understanding of autism communication
Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to conform to neurotypical ...
Medical Xpress / Assessing smartphone apps for stress relief: Mindfulness and problem-solving therapy may be more effective
The levels of stress experienced by people living in many countries worldwide, particularly by those inhabiting urban areas, have risen exponentially over the past decades. This has led to the development of numerous technological ...
Medical Xpress / Electroconvulsive therapy's 'hard reset' effect: Brain wave discovery challenges long-held assumption
During his third-year psychiatry clerkship as a medical student, Zach Rosenthal, MD, Ph.D., was part of a team providing care to a young man with schizophrenia and severe catatonia.
Medical Xpress / Sustained in the brain: How lasting emotions arise from brief stimuli, in humans and mice
We don't always understand our emotions, but we couldn't lead normal lives without them. They steer us through life, guiding the decisions we make and the actions we take. But if they're inappropriate or stick around for ...
Medical Xpress / New findings reveal how the heart is organized from the earliest stages of embryonic development
A study published today in the journal Developmental Cell uncovers new insights into how the heart forms during the earliest stages of embryonic development.
Medical Xpress / Food as friend, not foe—study maps cellular network that enables safe food consumption through oral tolerance
If we have an allergy to peanuts, strawberries or dairy, we are quick to blame our immune systems. But when we enjoy a diverse diet without any adverse reaction, we generally don't realize that this is also the immune system's ...
Medical Xpress / 'Master control switch' protein that heightens neurodegenerative disease offers new treatment target
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have identified a protein that appears to act as a master control switch for reactive gliosis, a prominent feature of many neurodegenerative diseases that is thought to contribute ...
Medical Xpress / Caregiver intuition may spot child health crises before some early warning systems
A new study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health suggests that parental or caregiver intuition may outperform some traditional early warning systems in identifying children at risk of deterioration.
Medical Xpress / Understanding how Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease hides in neurons for decades
In April 2025, three people in Oregon developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, fatal neurological condition that is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease. It impacts one or two ...
Medical Xpress / Electronic face tattoo can gauge mental strain
Researchers gave participants face tattoos that can track when their brain is working too hard. Published in the journal Device, the study introduces a non-permanent wireless forehead e-tattoo that decodes brainwaves to measure ...
Medical Xpress / Bladder cancer treatment reprograms bone marrow to boost immune system's cancer-fighting ability
More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat early-stage bladder cancer.
Medical Xpress / Mapping the 'brain in the gut' may provide clues to gastrointestinal disorders
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified three types of nerve cells connected to the intestinal villi, suggesting that previously unknown neural networks regulate fluid balance in the gut.
