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Young survivors have social difficulties years after cancer diagnosis
March 20, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
Better sleep can make us feel like a million bucks
March 20, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research examines the impact of improving sleep quality and finds the effects comparable with a lottery win of a quarter of a million dollars.
Link between Vitamin D treatment and autism prevention
March 17, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
Giving vitamin D supplements to mice during pregnancy prevents autism traits in their offspring, researchers have discovered. The discovery provides further evidence of the crucial role vitamin D plays in brain development.
Researchers review progress of treating glutamate signalling in depression
March 17, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
Major depressive disorder (MDD) impacts 15 million Americans and is the leading cause of disability, yet current treatments possess limited efficacy. Ketamine, which has been repurposed as a rapidly acting antidepressant, has emerged as an experimental…
Human brain networks developing in adolescence related to evolutionary expansion
March 17, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new study reveals new patterns of coordinated development in the outer layer of the cerebrum of the human brain and describes how these structural patterns relate to functional networks.
Untreated sleep apnea in children can harm brain cells tied to cognition and mood
March 17, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
A study comparing children 7 to 11 years old with moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea to children the same age who slept normally found significant reductions of gray matter — brain cells crucial to most cognitive tasks — in several regions of…
Abnormal development of the brain in an intractable disease, thanatophoric dysplasia
March 17, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
Thanatophoric dysplasia (TD) is an intractable disease with abnormalities of bones and the brain. Because of experimental difficulties, its pathophysiology is largely unknown. In this study, by combining ferrets, whose brain is rather similar to that o…
Electroacupuncture releases stem cells to relieve pain, promote tissue repair, study finds
March 17, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
A new study demonstrates how electroacupuncture triggers a neurological mechanism that can help promote tissue repair and relieve injury-induced pain. The findings provide the most comprehensive picture yet of how electroacupuncture stimulates the brai…
A prescription for touch: Early experiences shape preterm babies’ brains
March 16, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
Newborn babies experience the world through touch. Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full-term — show that a baby’s earliest experiences of touch hav…
Eating fruits and vegetables may lower women’s stress risk
March 16, 2017 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research finds that eating five to servings of fruits and vegetables daily may lower women’s risk of stress by more than a fifth.
