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·May 30, 2017·5 min read

Prenatal Stress Predisposes Female Mice to Binge Eat

Stressed mother mice are more likely to produce offspring with binge eating habits later in life, a new study reports.

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·May 30, 2017·3 min read

Brain Opioids Help Us To Relate To Others

Study reveals how the brain's opioid system modulates response to others in pain.

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·May 30, 2017·3 min read

Your Sex Life is Only as Old as You Feel

According to researchers, the closer you feel to your chronological age, the less likely you are to be satisfied with your love life.

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·May 29, 2017·5 min read

Mother’s Stress Affects Baby Through Amniotic Fluid

Study reveals corticotropin-releasing hormone can rise in amniotic fluid when the mother is stressed over long periods of time while pregnant.

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·May 27, 2017·5 min read

Losing Sleep Over Climate Change

The worry over climate change may not be the main reason you're losing sleep. The rising temperatures associated with global warming are making it harder for people to get a good night's rest, a new study reports.

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·May 27, 2017·4 min read

Probiotics May Help Improve Symptoms of Depression

According to researchers, probiotics can help relieve symptoms of depression, as well as be beneficial in helping to treat IBS.

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·May 26, 2017·2 min read

Optic Probes Shed Light on Binge Eating

Optogenetically activating neurons in an area of the brain not previously associated with feeding can produce binge eating behavior, researchers report.

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·May 26, 2017·12 min read

Century Old Drug Could Help Treat Autism Symptoms

According to researchers, a century old drug originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness shows promise for treating symptoms of autism.

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·May 26, 2017·5 min read

Being Cruel To Be Kind: Making People Feel Bad May Be a Strategy For Helping Them

According to researchers, people may try to invoke negative emotions in others for altruistic reasons, not simply for their own benefit.

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·May 26, 2017·5 min read

Monkey Say: Marmosets Learn to Call the Same Way Human Babies Learn to Babble

Just as a baby's babbles begin to sound more like recognizable human speech if they receive frequent vocal feedback from adults, the same kind of interaction speeds up speech acquisition in marmosets, a new study reveals.