News tagged with electric shock
Social memory in Drosophila
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Positive social interactions exist within Drosophila: when in a group, Drosophila flies have better memory than when they are isolated. Thomas Preat's team at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie (CNRS, France) ...
Shocked by therapies: psychologists reject sexual reorientation
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2009 |
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US psychologists are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed.
Chinese teen dies at Internet addiction rehab camp
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- China is investigating the death of a teenager who was allegedly beaten to death in a camp designed to treat Internet addiction, state media said.
Proper placement of defibrillators key to effective use
Jul 28, 2009 |
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The appropriate placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) is critical to optimize their use in public places, according to two studies published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The price of pain and the value of suffering
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 22, 2009 |
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During these trying financial times, the cost of healthcare and how much we are willing to pay for it is at the top of our economic concerns. The financial value of pain has a wide ranging influence, affecting drug prices ...
Blocking protein may help ease painful nerve condition
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 15, 2009 |
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Scientists have identified the first gene that pulls the plug on ailing nerve cell branches from within the nerve cell, possibly helping to trigger the painful condition known as neuropathy.
