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Early life experience modifies gene vital to normal brain function

Early life stress, such as an extreme lack of parental affection, has lasting effects on a gene important to normal brain processes and also tied to mental disorders, according to a new animal study in the Sept. 29 issue ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medication may provide some benefit for older adults with anxiety disorder

Preliminary research suggests that use of the drug escitalopram provided some improvement in symptoms for older adults with generalized anxiety disorder, although the overall benefits were diminished because of nonadherence ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Expectant brains help predict anxiety treatment success

A network of emotion-regulating brain regions implicated in the pathological worry that can grip patients with anxiety disorders may also be useful for predicting the benefits of treatment.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Seasonal changes may influence the efficacy of vaccination against diabetes

The development of a medicine for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, based on autoantigen GAD65, received a setback following crucial clinical phase 3 trials that failed to show significant effects. One possible explanation ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study finds exercise reduces anxiety symptoms in women

Approximately 3 percent of the U.S. population suffers from excessive, uncontrollable worry that reduces their health and quality of life. The condition, known as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, is difficult to overcome and ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Massive DNA search uncovers new mutations driving blood cancer

The most comprehensive search to date of DNA abnormalities in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has unearthed several new altered genes that drive this common blood cancer, a finding that could potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing cancer in three dimensions

One of the hallmarks of cancer cells is that certain regions of their DNA tend to get duplicated many times, while others are deleted. Often those genetic alterations help the cells become more malignant — ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Worrying can impact interpersonal relationships, study finds

Most people worry from time to time. A new research study, led by a Case Western Reserve University faculty member in psychology, also shows that worrying can be so intrusive and obsessive that it interferes in the person's ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Repairing our inner clock with a two-inch fish

Circadian rhythms — the natural cycle that dictates our biological processes over a 24-hour day — does more than tell us when to sleep or wake. Disruptions in the cycle are also associated with depression, problems ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Natural-born consumers

What do fast-food restaurants have in common? Why are women more likely to become compulsive shoppers and men more likely to become addicted to pornography? Why do men's testosterone levels rise when they ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Online TV is a format just waiting to click

Kiefer Sutherland, the star of "24," and John Hurt, the eminent British thespian, recently joined forces, playing opposite each other in "The Confession," a sort of short feature about a hit man and a priest. I say "sort ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diabetes vaccine stumbles at second hurdle

An experimental vaccine to prevent progression of Type 1 diabetes failed at the second step of the three-phase trial process, doctors said on Monday in a study reported online by The Lancet.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Promising results of Phase I diabetes trial announced

Promising results of the Phase I clinical trial of the generic drug BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guerin) to treat advanced type I diabetes were announced today at the American Diabetes Association scientific sessions in San Diego. ...

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created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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