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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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / '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 / 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 / Traditional diagnostic decision support systems outperform generative AI for diagnosing disease
Medical professionals have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline diagnoses for decades, using what are called diagnostic decision support systems (DDSSs). Computer scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital ...
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 / HIV's hidden persistence: How small changes affect replication speed and reactivation
University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: Their research shows that small changes in the virus affect how quickly or slowly it replicates, and how ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers uncover novel immune mechanism that protects the intestine
A team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (The Institute) has made a landmark discovery that sheds light on how the immune system protects the gut during infection. By studying ...
Medical Xpress / Anti-malarial medicines can help reduce body weight, researchers discover
In recent years, overweight and obesity have become a serious global health problem, posing significant risk factors for various diseases. Longing for a civilized and healthy lifestyle, more and more people are starting to ...
