Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of "pacemaker"—has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an open-label trial.
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed an experimental method to induce a strong physiological response linked to psychological pressure by making participants aim for a streak of success in a task.
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Children have 20 milk teeth, 10 in each jaw. This set of teeth is important for chewing and speaking, and helps to keep space open for the subsequent set of 32 permanent teeth. Milk teeth begin to develop in the womb around ...
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Nearly half of U.S. adults (47%) are worried they won't be able to afford necessary health care in the coming year, the highest level of concern recorded since West Health and Gallup began tracking in 2021. The share of Americans ...
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The first new malaria treatment in decades holds promise against rising drug resistance after Swiss drugmaker Novartis announced it was as effective at treating the disease as established treatments.
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Australia has made major progress in curbing drunk driving. Decades of random breath testing, enforcement and powerful social media campaigns have cut alcohol-related road deaths significantly.
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Researchers led by St Michael's Hospital in Toronto report that ketogenic diets are associated with modest reductions in depressive symptoms in adults, while evidence for anxiety remains uncertain.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University at Buffalo investigators report that diabetes fatalism is associated with lower mental health-related quality of life over 12 months in African American adults with poorly ...
Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations, false beliefs about oneself or the world (i.e., delusions), and other disruptions in thought, emotion and perception. Recent genetic studies ...
A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain. The study, recently published in Neuron, shows that distinct perceptual ...
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