Autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS) are disorders of the immune system associated in this case with demyelination of the central nervous system (CNS). The term demyelination des...
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Layer 6b, the deepest layer of the mammalian brain's cortex, has recently been the focus of numerous neuroscience studies. Despite the interesting findings gathered in recent years, the role of t...
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Over the course of their lives, humans build subjective internal models outlining the associations between specific environmental stimuli and rewards that could be gained from interacting with th...
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Over the past decades, numerous studies have investigated the neural and cognitive processes underpinning intergroup conflict, as this could help to explain what fuels belligerent behavior, polit...
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The internet has given rise to new forms of deceit and misinformation, including phishing attacks, romance scams and fake news. While many psychological studies have investigated the factors that...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-exploring-factors-people-ability-online.html
Autoimmune diseases are among the most puzzling because turncoat constituents of the body wage a constant state of war. Sometimes the underlying cause of an autoimmune condition is so obscure—h...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-infamous-inflammasome-rogue-protein-complex.html
Triple negative breast cancer is the most aggressive subtype of the disease and is notorious for a poor prognosis, but scientists are working on a breakthrough method of converting these treatmen...
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Neuroscientists have been trying for decades to understand how the brains of humans and other animals develop throughout the lifespan. While their work has gathered much insight into brain matura...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-prefrontal-cortex-circuitry-adolescence-enables.html
The social behaviors of humans and animals often unfold over two distinct phases, namely a motivational and an action phase. The first of these phases entails instinctual and reward-seeking menta...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-insights-neural-mechanisms-involved-aggressive.html
Previous neuroscience studies suggest that transient increases in brain dopamine are critical signals for learning about reward, and the motivation to obtain more rewards. Researchers at Universi...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-dopamine-fluctuations-distinct-brain-subregions.html
In their everyday lives, humans often weigh the value of different options and decide how to act based on this mental evaluation. This process, known as value-based decision-making, has been the ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-unveils-role-neural-substrate-lateral.html
Service dogs, originally trained to assist physically disabled individuals with guidance, physical tasks, and medical alerts, have more recently begun to provide psychiatric assistance to individ...
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In findings that are nothing short of surprising, scientists have demonstrated that the liver is the site where the immune system unleashes its assault on pneumococcal bacteria following vaccinat...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-vaccination-thwart-pneumococcal-infection-animal.html
Although immunologists have developed a deep reservoir of knowledge illuminating how antibodies respond to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, little is known about the elusive cells that produce inf...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-elusive-immune-cells-hidden-niches.html
Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly advanced systems and devices for measuring brain activity in both research and medical settings. A concept that has been...
Researchers from MIT have developed a 3D-printable tissue adhesive that demonstrates superior tissue adhesion, rapid sealing capabilities across various surgical scenarios and a unique blood-repe...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-3d-printable-tissue-adhesive-standard.html
The somatosensory cortex is a brain region known to play a role in the detection of tactile information, changes in temperature, and pain sensations. Some recent studies found that this crucial b...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-exploring-somatosensory-cortex-contributes-encoding.html
Surveys and statistics suggest that mental illnesses are becoming increasingly widespread, as the number of people worldwide accessing mental health services has increased in recent years. Unders...
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Past psychology studies have found that on average, older adults tend to view the world in a more positive light than younger adults. People in their 30s to 50s, in fact, often display a negativi...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-hints-early-shift-positive-attitude.html
What telltale features—many inaudible to the human ear—separate one kind of cough from another? Scientists are on the verge of finding out with a new machine learning tool aimed at identifyin...
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Sleep is known to play a key role in facilitating various physiological processes, while also contributing to the healthy functioning of the brain. Lack of sleep and poor sleep quality have been ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-microglia-modulation-norepinephrine-transmission.html
Fasting, the voluntary abstention from eating and sometimes drinking for a set time, has become increasingly widespread, as some studies have found that it could boost the immune system and help ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-neural-mechanism-underlie-fasting-immune.html
In their daily lives, humans can encounter many situations that can put them at a varying degree of risk, or in other words, situations in which their choices can increase or decrease the possibi...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-hypnotizability-behavior.html
Humans commonly evaluate the beauty of other humans, as well as objects, places, natural landscapes, and even animals. The innate human tendency to make aesthetic judgments has been the topic of ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-exploring-link-aesthetic-judgments-screen.html
In mammals, the perception of visual stimuli is supported by the coordinated activity of thousands of neurons in different brain regions. The images perceived by the eyes are represented in the b...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-logic-underlying-recurrent-primary-visual.html
Mice are among the animal species most employed in neuroscience studies, as they are mammals (i.e., their brain is in some ways similar to the human brain) and their genetics or behaviors can be ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-miniature-vr-goggles-mice-advance.html
The activity of neurons in the mammalian brain has been found to be linked with various physiological processes, including the flow of blood that provides them with the energy required to functio...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-unveils-synaptic-transmission-mechanism-neurovascular.html
Human decision-making has been the focus of a wide range of research studies. Collectively, these research efforts could help to understand better how people make different types of everyday choi...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-cognitive-brain-regions-compressed-goal.html
Adverse early experiences, such as parental neglect, abuse, the death of a loved one, or other traumatic events, are known to influence how humans will behave as adults. For instance, studies hav...
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Medical investigators are theorizing that a combination of two treatments that activate myeloid cells may effectively treat a recalcitrant form of pancreatic cancer that thwarts conventional immu...
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