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·October 2, 2021·6 min read

How Parents Feed Kids Is Linked to Emotional Eating

Overall, restrictive eating was the only feeding practice that linked parent and child emotional eating.

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·October 2, 2021·7 min read

The Neurobiology of Memes and Conspiracy Theories

The propensity to believe in conspiracy theories may be a result of genetic determination, cognitive capacity, and affective reactions. Researchers found the representation of memes acts as neural network attractor states in the brain, linking them with the formation of conspiracy theories.

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·October 2, 2021·4 min read

Study Finds Vital Link to Identify People at Risk of Aneurysms

People with asymmetrical brain arteries have a significantly higher risk of developing a cerebral aneurysm, a new study reports.

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·October 2, 2021·4 min read

Morality Demonstrated in Stories Can Alter Judgement for Early Adolescents

Reading about moral characteristics helps teens absorb those traits as building blocks for their own morality, a new study reports.

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·October 2, 2021·5 min read

New Treatment Combination Inhibits Glioblastoma Growth

A combination of approved and novel therapeutics improved survival rates and reduced both tumor volume and growth for those suffering from glioblastoma brain cancer.

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·October 1, 2021·6 min read

What Our Wandering Thoughts Can Teach Us About Mental Health

Ten minutes of idle thought can tell us a lot about the potential risk of depression, researchers say. Those who tend to ruminate and were more past or negatively focused in their idle thoughts had an increased risk of depression.

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·October 1, 2021·6 min read

Understanding Hearing Loss From Noise Damage Through Gene Expression Changes

Researchers have created an atlas representing changes in the levels of RNA made in different cell types in the ear following noise-induced hearing loss. They also discovered certain FDA-approved medications for diabetes and other disorders may protect against noise-related hearing loss.

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·October 1, 2021·4 min read

Getting Beyond Small Talk: People Enjoy Deep Conversations With Strangers

People overestimate feelings of awkwardness when talking to strangers and underestimate the enjoyment of deep, meaningful conversations with those we have just met.

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·October 1, 2021·4 min read

Fight or Flight, Unless Internal Clocks Are Disrupted

Daily release of glucocorticoids depends on coordination between the clock gene and activity rhythms of neurons within two parts of the hypothalamus.

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·October 1, 2021·5 min read

Early Accumulation of Tau in the Brain Predicts Memory Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease

PET study finds early accumulation of the tau protein in the brain is a better predictor of Alzheimer's associated memory decline than amyloid plaque accumulation or cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers.