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Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin ...


Are the effects of pornography negligible?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 10 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

A Université de Montréal researcher, funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, has launched a new study to examine the effects of pornography on men. "We ...


Study shows that adults have dreamlike thoughts during sleepwalking and sleep terrors episodes

Medicine & Health / Health

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A study in the Dec.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that short, unpleasant, dreamlike mental activity occurs during sleepwalking and sleep terrors episodes, suggesting that people with these sleep disorders may be acting ...


Study shows dream-enacting behavior is common in healthy young adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A study in the Dec.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that dream-enacting behaviors are common in healthy young adults, and the prevalence of specific behaviors differs between men and women.


Loneliness can be contagious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.


Silver lining effect study, 'I have some good news and some bad news'

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Communicating "I have some good news and some bad news" is better than combining messages into a single, bleak result when small gains and large losses occur together, according to a study in the current issue of Management Sc ...


Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric

Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (27) | comments 58

Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people's beliefs, according to new study published in the ...


Now you see it, now you know you see it

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

There is a tiny period of time between the registration of a visual stimulus by the unconscious mind and our conscious recognition of it ― between the time we see an apple and the time we recognize it as an apple. Our ...


Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings

Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings

Medicine & Health / Research

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- When asked to inhibit their response to a "cocaine-cues" video, active cocaine abusers were, on average, able to suppress activity in brain regions linked to drug craving, according to a new ...



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