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Medical Xpress / Wearable trackers can detect depression relapse weeks before it returns, study finds

Could a smart watch act as an early-warning system for depression relapse? New research from McMaster University suggests that disruptions in a person's sleep and daily activity routine, as detected through a simple wrist-worn ...

9 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / A single oncolytic virus injection may help T cells infiltrate glioblastoma

A team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has shown that a single injection of an oncolytic virus—a genetically modified virus that selectively infects and destroys cancer cells—can ...

9 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Mice with miniature goggles reveal how different visual experiences give rise to different neural wiring

Visual experience triggers the formation of a web of neural connections in different brain areas in order to make sense of the world—and in particular, of feedback connections, which send information from higher-level visual ...

9 hours ago in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Experimental drug may protect the brain against depression and cognitive impairment caused by whole brain radiotherapy

Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) saves lives by treating cancer that has spread to the brain, but it also causes long-standing brain damage. Many patients who go through radiation treatment later develop memory problems, thinking ...

2 hours ago in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Fragile X study uncovers brainwave biomarker bridging humans and mice

Numerous potential treatments for neurological conditions, including autism spectrum disorders, have worked well in lab mice but then disappointed in humans. What would help is a noninvasive, objective readout of treatment ...

10 hours ago in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Keeping your mind active throughout life associated with lower Alzheimer's risk

Engaging in a variety of intellectually stimulating activities throughout life, such as reading, writing and learning a language, is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and slower cognitive decline, according ...

Medical Xpress / Tiny worm offers clues to combat chemotherapy neurotoxicity

Chemotherapy remains one of the most powerful tools in the fight against cancer, yet it often comes with significant long-term side effects that can dramatically affect patients' quality of life. Among the most debilitating ...

10 hours ago in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Key gene behind drug resistance in small cell lung cancer identified

A research team has discovered a crucial mechanism that underlies chemotherapy resistance and metastasis in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Their study shows that the silencing of the RASA4 gene through epigenetic mechanisms ...

10 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / A new roadmap spotlights aging as key to advancing research in Parkinson's disease

Even though aging is the largest risk factor for Parkinson's disease, the majority of research aimed at taming the incurable neurodegenerative motor disease has largely left aging out of the mix. A group of researchers from ...

Medical Xpress / Genes within uterine gland cells shed light on potential causes of infertility

Even in the best-case scenario, when fertility clinics transfer chromosomally normal embryos into a would-be mother's uterus, the procedure only leads to a live birth half of the time. Some embryo transfers result in a pregnancy, ...

3 hours ago in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Medical Xpress / Aggressive brain tumors build protective 'sugar shield' to survive extreme stress

For the first time, researchers have identified a previously unrecognized metabolic defense mechanism in aggressive brain tumors: a sugar-rich shield that surrounds tumor cells and protects them against a particularly destructive ...

11 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Studies test whether gene-editing can fix high cholesterol. For now, take your medicine

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.

6 hours ago in Cardiology