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Breakthrough in treating premature babies

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adelaide researchers have made a world breakthrough in treating premature babies at risk of developmental disorders.





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Gene knockout may cheer up mice

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 6 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knocko ...


The upside of feeling down

The upside of feeling down

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 4

A chill wind chases you into the door of your local newsagent. Rain is drumming down outside. As you pay for your newspaper, you briefly notice a number of strange items on the checkout counter - a matchbox ...


Turn On, Tune In, Develop?

Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...


Back to (brain) basics

Back to (brain) basics

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In his own words, MIT neuroscientist Mark Bear admits he did not "wake up one day and say 'Hey, I'm going to cure autism.'" But, after decades of painstaking basic research on how the brain ...


Clinical tests begin on medication to correct Fragile X defect

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NIH-supported scientists at Seaside Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass., are beginning a clinical trial of a potential medication designed to correct a central neurochemical defect underlying Fragile X syndrome, the most common ...


Research explores the relationship between the mother-child bond and stress

Research explores the relationship between the mother-child bond and stress

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s the age-old psychological conundrum: nature versus nurture. Are children more, less or equally affected by their genetics and the environment in which they grow up? Professor of Psychology ...


Use of antipsychotic medications by children and adolescents associated with significant weight gain

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Many pediatric and adolescent patients who received second-generation antipsychotic medications experienced significant weight gain, along with varied adverse effects on cholesterol and triglyceride levels and other metabolic ...


Faulty 'wiring' in the brain triggers onset of schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King's College London has discovered abnormalities in the white matter of the brain that seem to be critical for the timing of schizophrenia. The study, led ...


Trembling hands and molecular handshakes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The heritable Fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome is a common neurodegenerative disease. It is assumed to result from a relative lack of the protein Pur-alpha. A new study by a German team under the leadership of Dr. Dierk Niessing ...


Pesticides exposure linked to suicidal thoughts

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study in China has found that people with higher levels of pesticide exposure are more likely to have suicidal thoughts. The study was carried out by Dr Robert Stewart from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College ...



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