Stress. Life’s trauma, physical or non-physical, can cause a flight-or-fight, or a freeze, stress response. Most experience it. Some are crippled by it. So how can stress, the body’s responses to what life throws at us, be assessed? Researchers thi…
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Potential new method to assess stress
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Reducing prejudice through brain stimulation
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People show less prejudice after receiving low intensity electrical stimulation administered to the frontal part of the brain. These researchers were the first to investigate whether the application of a non-invasive, painless brain stimulation techniq…
How chickenpox virus can cause a stroke in an HIV patient
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Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox in children and shingles in older adults. The virus typically remains dormant in patients with healthy immune systems, but can reactivate if the immune system is compromised. Patients infected with human immunod…
Young people are aware of the risks of cyberbullying but perceive others as being more at risk than themselves. Young women are more vulnerable to this perception than young men.
How can hip-hop help the mentally ill?
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In Lancet Psychiatry, the co-founders of a new initiative to address mental health issues through rap music analyze psychiatric themes in the lyrics of rapper Kendrick Lamar.
Your brain on drugs: Functional differences in brain communication in cocaine users
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The brain function of people addicted to cocaine is different from that of people who are not addicted and often linked to highly impulsive behavior, according to a new scientific study.
Condom use higher in young HIV-positive women with gender-equal views, study finds
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A study of more than 500 HIV-positive adults from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa finds women with greater perceptions of gender equality are more likely to use condoms.
Breast cancer in young women — unique goals for treatment and research
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Breast cancer that occurs in young women is likely to be more aggressive and to require more intensive types of therapy with increased risk of long-term treatment-related toxicities.
Long-term galactic cosmic ray exposure leads to dementia-like cognitive impairments
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What happens to an astronaut’s brain during a mission to Mars? Nothing good. It’s besieged by destructive particles that can forever impair cognition, according to a radiation oncology study. Exposure to highly energetic charged particles — much like …
Gambling is all an illusion
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Pathological gamblers “see” patterns in things that are actually quite random and not really there, to such a degree that they are quite willing to impulsively bet good money on such illusory…
