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Medical Xpress / 'Split-brain' study finds just a few fibers enable communication between the two hemispheres
Just a few fibers are enough for the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other. This was shown by a new international study led by Professor Dr. Michael Miller (University of California, Santa Barbara) and ...
Medical Xpress / Antidepressants improve core depressive symptoms early on, analysis finds
One of the most common antidepressants, sertraline, contributes to a modest improvement in core depression and anxiety symptoms, including low mood, within two weeks, finds a new analysis of a major clinical trial led by ...
Medical Xpress / An app, an Apple Watch and AI: A new way for researchers to study sleep health
An app that turns consumer Apple Watches into tools for highly sophisticated sleep stage monitoring was developed by a team of researchers led by professor Joyita Dutta at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The researchers ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers patent formula to block the transition from acute to chronic pain
Anyone who has experienced chronic pain knows how debilitating it can be. Just ask Daniele Piomelli, Ph.D., who has dealt with pain twice in his life: once after a minor surgery, and again with a bad bout of back pain that ...
Medical Xpress / Asymptomatic carriers drive E. coli spread in households, researchers find
Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have discovered that some people can carry large amounts of a multidrug-resistant strain of Escherichia coli sequence ...
Medical Xpress / Hundreds of animal studies on brain damage after stroke flagged for problematic images
A new study has identified over 240 scientific publications on animal models of hemorrhagic stroke that contain potentially problematic images, thereby raising concerns about the trustworthiness of the body of literature ...
Medical Xpress / Study links genetic variants to higher 'bad' cholesterol and heart attack risk
An international team led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientist has created a first-of-its-kind resource to identify those with a genetic risk for elevated "bad" cholesterol—a major contributor to heart ...
Medical Xpress / Babies' gut bacteria may influence future emotional health
A child's early gut microbiome may influence their risk of developing depression, anxiety or other internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, according to a new UCLA Health study. The effect appears to be related to the ...
Medical Xpress / Discovery of viral entry routes and decoy molecules could block yellow fever and encephalitis
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified central routes that two deadly viruses take to invade human cells and have designed decoy molecules that block the infections.
Medical Xpress / Investor pressure may be driving risky AI medical device launches
AI is transforming health care, but a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and Yale suggests we might be moving too fast to integrate the technology into clinical settings.
Medical Xpress / Virtual reality pool reveals feeling rewarded can help learn physical skills—even without actual rewards
People master new physical skills, such as sports, crafts or controlling a vehicle while driving, by blending lessons learned from both feedback on the amount of error they had in failures and the rewards of successes, even ...
Medical Xpress / The thymus hosts more 'cellular teachers' than we thought, study finds
A Czech scientist has contributed to understanding the function of the thymus—the training center of the immune system. T lymphocytes, key defensive cells, learn in the thymus not to mistake the body's own tissues for foreign ...
