From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via Newswise: Chronic pain sufferers who learn to dwell less on their ailments may sleep better and experience less day-to-day pain, according to results of research conducted on…
From the UC Davis Health System press release: New research from UC Davis and Washington State University shows that PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, launch a cellular chain of events that leads to an overabundance of…
From the McGill University press release: We rely on our senses in all aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, many people suffer from some kind of impaired sensory function. In Canada alone, 600,000 people are visually…
From the Baylor University press release via EurekAlert!: The ability to navigate using spatial cues was impaired in mice whose brains were minus a channel that delivers potassium — a finding that may have implications…
From the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business press release: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is typically used by medical professionals to visualize the internal structures of the human body. By using MRI to study the…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: Advertisers and public health officials may be able to access hidden wisdom in the brain to more effectively sell their products and promote health and safety, UCLA neuroscientists…
From the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee press release: Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger’s Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study by…
From the Gladstone Institutes press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have unraveled a process by which depletion of a specific protein in the brain contributes to the memory problems associated with Alzheimer’s…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: In a study published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, led by Mr. Sven Sandin, of the…
From the University of British Columbia press release via HealthCanal: A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers. The study, which will appear in…