Archive: 14/06/2017

It's common for children to report hearing voices, researchers say

Although the way we view and support people with mental health difficulties has improved over the years, experiences such as hearing voices and seeing visions are often still associated with "severe and enduring mental illness". ...

Jun 14, 2017

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Opinion: The social barriers to an active society are being ignored

Warmer weather and longer days can herald feelings of renewed energy and a sense of new beginnings. This year the seasonal change in Britain was pre-empted by a series of official nudges encouraging people to put extra spring ...

Jun 14, 2017

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Rules of the neural roads: Traffic control in your synapses

While the mechanism of transmission of information at the contact point between two neurons—the famous synapse—has been thoroughly studied, the transportation of this information within the terminal end of the neuron, ...

Jun 14, 2017

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Radiation levels in food predicted

Food in Japan will be contaminated by low-level radioactivity for decades following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, but not at a level which poses a serious risk to human health, according to new research.

Jun 14, 2017

Study finds way to predict treatment effectiveness for adults with autism

A collaboration between the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas and the George Washington University created a protocol to predict individual treatment effectiveness for adults on the autism spectrum. ...

Jun 14, 2017

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Diabetes drug trial needs to widen participants to understand full impact of drugs

More work needs to be done to examine the real world effects of the commonly prescribed diabetes drug empagliflozin, new research in the journal Diabetes Therapy finds.

Jun 14, 2017

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Research highlights risk of Lyme disease

You don't have to be deep in the backwoods to be at high risk for Lyme disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects that about 300,000 people are infected with Lyme disease each year, yet only 30,000 incidences ...

Jun 14, 2017

Are left-handed people more gifted than others? Our study suggests it may hold true for maths

The belief that there is a link between talent and left-handedness has a long history. Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed. So were Mark Twain, Mozart, Marie Curie, Nicola Tesla and Aristotle. It's no different today – former ...

Jun 14, 2017

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Why the South still has such high HIV rates

Increased funding, targeted prevention efforts and better treatment have helped to slow down the HIV epidemic in the United States. The number of new HIV-positive cases has decreased significantly, according to the Centers ...

Jun 14, 2017

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Disappointing outcome of bitopertin treatment for negative symptoms in schizophrenia

Two new phase III clinical trials investigating the efficacy and safety of bitopertin, a glycine uptake inhibitor considered to be a promising new add-on therapy for treating negative symptoms in schizophrenia, failed to ...

Jun 14, 2017

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