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·February 18, 2021·5 min read

Irregular Sleep Schedules Connected to Bad Moods and Depression

Irregular sleep patterns and inconsistent sleep-wake times increase the risk of bad moods and developing depression.

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·February 16, 2021·4 min read

Diagnosis Bias of Borderline Personality Disorder High Among LGB Community

The prevalence of borderline personality disorder diagnosis was almost double in sexual minorities compared to heterosexuals. Researchers propose the higher numbers could be a result of the bias against sexual minorities of those diagnosing the disorder.

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·January 8, 2021·8 min read

More Than Half of People Using Cannabis for Pain Experience Multiple Withdrawal Symptoms

People who use cannabis as a form of pain management report sleeplessness, nausea, and changes in mood or behavior when they go a significant time without using the drug.

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·October 15, 2020·5 min read

How the Nervous System Mutes or Boosts Sensory Information to Make Behavioral Decisions

Researchers have identified a novel neural network in fruit flies that converts external stimuli of varying intensity into decisions about whether to act.

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·August 2, 2020·5 min read

New Approach to Improve Radiation Therapy Resistance in Glioblastoma

Glioblastoma brain cancer cells that are more resistant to radiation therapy have higher levels of purines. Reducing the level of purines made the cancer cells more sensitive to radiation.

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·July 31, 2020·3 min read

‘Talkative’ Brain Regions Create Self-Control Challenges for Teens With Obesity

Obesity risk in teens appears to be associated with stronger connectivity within and between regions of the brain implicated in determining the salience of stimuli. This may have implications for reward processing. Researchers report executive control efforts in the brain decrease when salience and reward-processing regions are engaged in teens with obesity.

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·July 27, 2020·5 min read

Ultra-Low Power Brain Implants Find Meaningful Signal in Grey Matter Noise

Researchers reduced the power requirements of neural interfaces while improving their accuracy by tuning into a subset of brain waves.

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·June 16, 2020·4 min read

How does our brain trigger different sighs?

Researchers have identified a brain circuit that regulates all types of sighing but activates sighs for different reasons using input signals from different parts of the brain.

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·April 25, 2020·2 min read

Higher levels of destructive white blood cells associated with more severe COVID-19

Patients with severe COVID-19 infections have higher blood levels of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), which produce NETosis, an inflammatory type of neutrophil cell death. Researchers believe the NETs may be relevant to numerous aspects of novel coronavirus as thrombosis and inflammation are hallmarks of the severe infection.

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·April 22, 2020·3 min read

Spinal cord injury increases risk for mental health disorders

People who experience a spinal cord injury have an increased risk of developing a mental health disorder, a new study reports. Those with SCI had higher instances of anxiety, depression, and psychological multimorbidity than those who had not experienced a debilitating injury.

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·April 13, 2020·2 min read

Mandated TB vaccination predicts flattened curves for COVID-19 spread

Researchers report that if the US had adopted mandatory BCG vaccines against tuberculosis decades ago, we may not have reached death rates in triple digits for coronavirus. Countries that have a current policy mandating BCG vaccinations have significantly slower growth of both COVID-19 cases and deaths compared to countries with no mandates for the TB vaccination.

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·April 8, 2020·3 min read

Could a smartwatch identify an infection before you start spreading it?

A medical wrist device detected disrupted sleep patterns 24 hours before participants started shedding the flu virus. While the initial study was focused on influenza, researchers speculate the device could be sufficient at spotting the beginning of other infections, including COVID-19. While it should not be considered a full diagnostic device, the wristband data will be useful to guide when people should self isolate as a precaution.

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Irregular Sleep Schedules Connected to Bad Moods and Depression

Diagnosis Bias of Borderline Personality Disorder High Among LGB Community

More Than Half of People Using Cannabis for Pain Experience Multiple Withdrawal Symptoms

How the Nervous System Mutes or Boosts Sensory Information to Make Behavioral Decisions

New Approach to Improve Radiation Therapy Resistance in Glioblastoma

‘Talkative’ Brain Regions Create Self-Control Challenges for Teens With Obesity

Ultra-Low Power Brain Implants Find Meaningful Signal in Grey Matter Noise

How does our brain trigger different sighs?

Higher levels of destructive white blood cells associated with more severe COVID-19

Spinal cord injury increases risk for mental health disorders

Mandated TB vaccination predicts flattened curves for COVID-19 spread

Could a smartwatch identify an infection before you start spreading it?

Non-Drug Breakthrough for Postpartum Depression

Cancer Drug Halts Fragile Brain Bleeds

Astrocyte Subtypes Drive Synapse Formation and Memory

Restoring Brain Growth in Angelman Syndrome

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