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·May 13, 2020·4 min read

Coronavirus infection in children – it may not start with a cough

Gastrointestinal symptoms, coupled with a fever or history of exposure to COVID-19, could indicate coronavirus infection in children.

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·April 29, 2020·4 min read

COVID-19 study shows that men have over double the death rate of women

Males who contract COVID-19 have 2.5 times the death rate of women. Being males is a significant risk factor for worse disease severity, regardless of age. Researchers found a similar trend in data from the 2003 SARS outbreak. The study speculates the reason why males are more prone to negative outcomes of coronavirus is due to levels of ACE2, which is significantly higher in males than females.

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·April 10, 2020·5 min read

Video games improve the visual attention of expert players

If you're playing video games to help kill time during social distancing, you might be improving your visual attention abilities. Researchers found experienced gamers have faster information processing abilities and can allocate more cognitive power to individual visual stimuli. Playing video games can cause long-term changes in the brain and lead to improvements in temporal visual selective attention.

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·March 18, 2020·4 min read

Mirror, mirror, on the wall: People rate own bodies as more attractive when viewed from third-person perspective

Virtual reality study reveals we perceive ourselves as more attractive when we view ourselves from a third-person perspective.

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·March 4, 2020·4 min read

Mother nose best: Child body odor provides olfactory clues to developmental stages

Olfaction plays a role in signaling key dynamic changes in the mother-child relationship.

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·February 26, 2020·4 min read

Connectedness to nature makes children happier

Connectedness to nature makes children happier due to their tendency to perform sustainable and pro-ecological behaviors.

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·February 21, 2020·5 min read

Ethnobotanical medicine is effective against the bacterium causing Lyme disease

Ethnobotanical plant extracts, including Ghanaian quinine and Japanese knotweed, show strong activity against B.burgdorferi, outperforming current antibiotics for the treatment of Lyme disease.

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·February 8, 2020·4 min read

Seeing blue after the little blue pill: Visual disturbances in Viagra users

Study highlights the risk of persistent visual side effects in men who take the highest recommended dose of viagra. Some of the visual disturbances include color vision impairments, blurred vision, and problems with light sensitivity.

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·February 2, 2020·4 min read

High-tempo music may make exercise easier and more beneficial

High-tempo music may increase the benefits of exercise and reduce perceived effort, particularly if listened to during endurance training.

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·January 24, 2020·4 min read

What goes up may actually be down

Virtual reality study reveals people plan movements and anticipate the force of gravity by "seeing it" through visual cues rather than "feeling it."

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·January 17, 2020·4 min read

New dog, old tricks? Stray dogs can understand human cues

Stray, untrained dogs respond to gestures given by humans. The findings suggest that dog/human understanding may transcend learning.

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·December 31, 2019·7 min read

Justified and unjustified movie violence evokes different brain responses

Scenes of justified and unjustified violence in movies activate different areas of the adolescent brain. Unjustified violence activates the lateral orbital frontal cortex, while scenes where violence appears justified, activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

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Frontiers

Coronavirus infection in children – it may not start with a cough

COVID-19 study shows that men have over double the death rate of women

Video games improve the visual attention of expert players

Mirror, mirror, on the wall: People rate own bodies as more attractive when viewed from third-person perspective

Mother nose best: Child body odor provides olfactory clues to developmental stages

Connectedness to nature makes children happier

Ethnobotanical medicine is effective against the bacterium causing Lyme disease

Seeing blue after the little blue pill: Visual disturbances in Viagra users

High-tempo music may make exercise easier and more beneficial

What goes up may actually be down

New dog, old tricks? Stray dogs can understand human cues

Justified and unjustified movie violence evokes different brain responses

Mapping the Short-Term Plasticity of Working Memory

Closing Your Eyes Could Muffle Your Hearing

Mapping Gene Activity in the Living Human Brain

Brain’s Clogged Pipes: A Surprising New Link to Hallucinations

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