News tagged with physiological mechanisms
Under a cloud -- darkness linked to 'brain drain' in depressed people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 28, 2009 |
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A lack of sunlight is associated with reduced cognitive function among depressed people. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health used weather data from NASA satellites to measure sunlig ...
Key to potential new treatment for allergy-induced asthma identified
May 18, 2009 |
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In research that could lead to new asthma drugs, scientists at Yale School of Medicine, Hydra Biosciences of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of California, San Francisco have discovered that a protein may be ...
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Brain compensatory mechanisms enhance the recovery from spinal cord injury
Nov 15, 2007 |
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A research team led by Tadashi Isa, a professor at the Japanese National Institute for Physiological Sciences, NIPS (SEIRIKEN), and Dr. Yukio Nishimura (University of Washington, Seattle), have found that brain compensatory ...
Brain activity exposes those who break promises
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. The ...
When leaves fall, more is occurring than a change of weather
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Sep 22, 2008 |
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A falling leaf often catches a poet's eye, but scientists also wonder about the phenomenon that causes leaves to fall, or abscission in plants. Abscission is the physiological process plants use to separate ...
Generation of a severe memory-deficit mutant mouse by exclusively eliminating the kinase activity of CaMKIIalpha
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 19, 2009 |
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A Japanese research group, led by Dr. Yoko Yamagata of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, has successfully generated a novel kinase-dead mutant mouse of the CaMKIIalpha gene that completely and exclusively ...
Witnessing violence affects kids' health
Apr 21, 2009 |
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School-aged children who witness violence in urban communities show symptoms of post-traumatic stress. They also suffer physiological effects with a disruption to their normal cortisol production pattern during the day, which ...
Daily alcohol use causes changes in sexual behavior, new study reveals
Jan 02, 2008 |
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A team of researchers at Penn Sate has used an animal model to reveal, for the first time, a physiological basis for the effect of alcohol on male sexual behavior, including increased sexual arousal and decreased ...
Symptoms of depression associated with increase in abdominal fat
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Older adults with symptoms of depression appear more likely to gain abdominal fat, but not overall fat, over a five-year period, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
New animal study may explain why alcohol consumption increases breast cancer risk
Apr 29, 2007 |
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For the first time, scientists have used a laboratory mouse model to mimic the development of human alcohol-induced breast cancer.
Strong link between obesity and depression
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Doctors should pay more attention to the link between common mental illness and obesity in patients because the two health problems are closely linked, according to researchers at the University of Adelaide.
Immaturity of the brain may cause schizophrenia
Sep 10, 2008 |
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The underdevelopment of a specific region in the brain may lead to schizophrenia in individuals. According to research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Molecular Brain, dentate gyrus, which is locate ...
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