News tagged with neuropsychiatric conditions


Children of older fathers perform less well in intelligence tests during infancy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Children of older fathers perform less well in a range of cognitive tests during infancy and early childhood, according to a study published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. In contrast, the study finds ...


Researchers iron out new role for serotonin

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have found a surprising link between brain iron levels and serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in neuropsychiatric conditions ranging from autism to major depression.





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Study shows how gene action may lead to diabetes prevention, cure

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

A gene commonly studied by cancer researchers has been linked to the metabolic inflammation that leads to diabetes.


Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)

Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays

Medicine & Health / Health

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(AP) -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.


TRMM Satellite sees Cyclone Cleo coming to a close

TRMM Satellite sees Cyclone Cleo coming to a close

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Rainfall in the once-known Cyclone Cleo has really diminished over the last 24 hours, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite has confirmed it. Cleo is fading and the Joint Typhoon Warning ...


'Volume dial' neurone may aid spinal disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scottish researchers have discovered a new class of neuron that may lead to new therapies for spinal injury.


City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

Physics / General Physics

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New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...


New discoveries could improve climate projections

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 14 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.


3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers

3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers

Technology / Semiconductors

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Not so long ago our computers had a single core which had to be boosted for performance - making each machine into a great central heating system. Beyond 85° C, however, electronic components become unstable. ...


New inherited eye disease discovered

New inherited eye disease discovered

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 15 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University of Iowa researchers have found the existence of a new, rare inherited retinal disease. Now the search is on to find the genetic cause, which investigators hope will increase understanding of more ...


Magnetic field measurements of the human heart at room temperature

Magnetic field measurements of the human heart at room temperature

Physics / General Physics

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A new optical sensor developed by the American National Institute of Standards and Technology was successfully tested by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) in the "magnetically best shielded ...


Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios

Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios

Physics / Quantum Physics

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 7

Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first ...



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