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Medical Xpress / Taking a fresh look at definition of autism

A wider public conversation has arisen over whether it's time for a shift in how we think about categories of autism, amid rising interest in the disorder across the country.

19 hours ago in Autism spectrum disorders
Medical Xpress / Discrimination damages the body—and makes victims age faster

Has being discriminated against as an LGBTQ+ person been so bad, the stress so heavy, that the victim can literally feel it in their bones? Well, it turns out that's exactly what happens: discrimination damages the body and ...

19 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Digital medical device developed for jaw pain and TMD self-management

Jaw pain shouldn't be a mystery, yet for one in 15 people living with Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD), care can be fragmented, confusing, and at times outdated.

18 hours ago in Dentistry
Tech Xplore / Multi-kilogram-scale biomass processing facility transforms agricultural biomass waste into fiber and textiles

UC Riverside chemical engineering researchers have completed construction of a multi-kilogram-scale biomass processing facility that transforms forestry and agricultural biomass waste into pulp that can be made into many ...

21 hours ago in Engineering
Phys.org / Why reading for pleasure matters

It's no secret New Zealand is facing a literacy crisis. Education Minister Erica Stanford has voiced serious concerns about the reading and writing abilities of our tamariki, noting many are not meeting expected benchmarks ...

20 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / New model fails to explain near-death experiences, scientists say

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people's brushes with death, top University of Virginia ...

19 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / Chatbot-driven sexual abuse: Is the Grok case just the tip of the iceberg?

Dr. Federica Fedorczyk, early career research fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI, works on AI regulation and ethics with a focus on the intersection between AI and the criminal justice system. In this article, she explores ...

20 hours ago in Business
Tech Xplore / First-ever dataset to improve English-to-Malayalam machine translation fills critical gap for low-resource languages

The world's first dataset aimed at improving the quality of English-to-Malayalam machine translation—a long-overlooked language spoken by more than 38 million people in India—has been developed by researchers at the University ...

20 hours ago in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / New framework helps AI systems recover from mistakes and find optimal solutions

If you use consumer AI systems, you have likely experienced something like AI "brain fog": You are well into a conversation when suddenly the AI seems to lose track of the different ideas you have been talking about and how ...

21 hours ago in Computer Sciences
Medical Xpress / Chat-based crisis response planning shows promise for preventing teen suicide

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among adolescents, yet many teens do not receive timely mental health care.

19 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / What's the difference between a sprained ankle and a twisted ankle?

After the summer break, you're ready to get back into exercise. You put on your shoes, pop on your headphones and head out the door on your first run of the new year.

Medical Xpress / Blood test predicts which patients with lung cancer will benefit from newly approved immunotherapy drug

A team led by investigators at the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute has discovered that a particular marker on tumor cells circulating in the blood indicates whether a patient with lung cancer will experience a lasting ...

19 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer