Experience sculpts brain circuitry to build resiliency to stress
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Rats develop 'illusion of control' It's long been known that experiencing control over a stressor immunizes a rat from developing a depression-like syndrome when it later encounters stressors that it can't control. Now, scienti ...
Africa's least-known carnivore in Tanzania
Dec 21, 2006 |
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[B]Mongoose is one more rare find in the mountains of Southern Tanzania[/B] The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that a camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now rec ...
Prediction markets accurately forecast influenza activity
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Influenza experts have borrowed a page from economists, creating a futures market for influenza activity that predicted outbreaks two to four weeks in advance. The influenza prediction market is presented in the Jan. 15 issue ...
European office withdraws Nexium patent
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 21, 2006 |
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The European Patent Office, answering a generic drug maker's challenge, withdrew a patent on Britain-based AstraZeneca PLC's heartburn treatment, Nexium.
Physicians enlisted in efforts to keep demented drivers off the road
Dec 21, 2006 |
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The surge of baby boomers now entering their 60s means more drivers on the road who may be impaired by dementia or other cognitive impairments linked to aging. Researchers at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) ...
Feinstein Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Lab join forces, seek manic depression genes
Dec 21, 2006 |
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Psychiatry and genetics researchers tackle the genetics of early-onset bipolar disorder in children and adolescents Psychiatric researchers from The Zucker Hillside Hospital campus of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Re ...
Cyberspace may overcome ethical constraints in experiments
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 21, 2006 |
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By repeating the Stanley Milgram's classic experiment from the 1960s on obedience to authority – that found people would administer apparently lethal electrical shocks to a stranger at the behest of an authority figure – ...
Purification and dilution reduce risk of fish being injured by hormone-disrupting compounds
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In a dissertation at the Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM), Stockholm University, Maria Pettersson has examined whether purified wastewater from municipal purification plants and cellulose factories in Sweden ...
Structure of iron regulatory protein-RNA complex solved
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The surprising structure and properties of a protein responsible for regulating the transport, storage and use of iron -- as it binds its target RNA -- are described by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago ...
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