From the Northwestern University press release via EurekAlert!: Simply ejecting your rear from the couch means your hand will spend less time digging into a bag of chocolate chip cookies. That is the simple but…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: Exposure to solvents at work may be associated with reduced thinking skills later in life for those who have less than a high school education,…
From the Yale University press release by Bill Hathaway via HealthCanal: Women who are depressed during pregnancy are not at higher risk of giving birth prematurely than non-depressed women — but those who take antidepressants…
From the University of Montreal press release by Marie Lambert-Chan: People who practice mindfulness meditation learn to accept their feelings, emotions, and states of mind without judging or resisting them. They simply live in the…
From the Max Planck Florida Institute press release: Despite a long-held scientific belief that much of the wiring of the brain is fixed by the time of adolescence, a new study shows that changes in…
From the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) press release via AlphaGalileo: Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg have discovered exactly how cells called microglia detect the site of brain injury – a finding that paves the way…
From the NYU press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers have identified a protein necessary to maintain behavioral flexibility, which allows us to modify our behaviors to adjust to circumstances that are similar, but not identical, to…
From the Albert Einstein College of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: “It’s in their genes” is a common refrain from scientists when asked about factors that allow centenarians to reach age 100 and beyond. Up…
From the University of Hawai’i at Manoa press release via HealthCanal: Even after weight loss, obese people may not be able to escape from the painful stigma of obesity, a new study led by a…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release via MedicalXpress: Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered a protein that appears to play an important regulatory role in deciding whether stem cells differentiate into the cells that make…