Monthly Archives: Marzo 2019
Supportive parents shapes emotional health of youth
Young adults who were raised by parents who were supportive of them expressing emotions tend to be more emotionally healthy and report lower levels...
Sleep and sleep disturbances affect brain performance, aging and various brain disorders
Why do animals sleep?
Why do humans "waste" a third time of their lives sleeping?
Throughout evolution, sleep has remained universal and essential to...
A fungus commonly found in human hair follicles might play a role in Crohn’s...
A fungus commonly found in human hair follicles also resides in the gut, where it may worsen intestinal disorders such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease...
A daily intake of nutritional supplements won’t help stave off the onset of depression
A daily intake of nutritional supplements won't help stave off the onset of depression, a new study has revealed.
Instead, regular lifestyle coaching to help...
Study reports on the health benefits of periodic cycles of fasting-mimicking diet for people...
What if a special diet could reduce inflammation and repair your gut?
USC researchers provided evidence that a low-calorie "fasting-mimicking" diet has the potential to...
Solved the mystery how celastrol sensitizes brains to leptin, curbing hunger and obesity
Celastrol's potent anti-obesity effects were widely reported in 2015.
Derived from the roots of the thunder god vine, the drug curbed food intake in...
Chronic kidney disease : researchers have reversed the deadliest effects
By loading a chelation drug into a nano-sized homing device, researchers at Clemson University have reversed in an animal model the deadliest effects of...
HIV is curable : stem cell transplants from donors carrying a genetic mutation
For just the second time ever a HIV patient is in sustained remission from the virus in what was hailed by experts Tuesday...
Mouth ulcers affect up to 25 per cent of young adults and children
A large breakthrough has been made in the genetic understanding of mouth ulcers which could provide potential for a new drug to prevent or...
In autoimmune diseases the immune system goes into overdrive
In autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis or lupus, the immune system goes into overdrive in response to people's own DNA being released from damaged...
Radiation immediately following surgery in children with ependymoma can nearly triple survival
Radiation immediately following surgery in children with ependymoma, the third most common pediatric brain tumor, can nearly triple survival.
The results are part of...
New therapeutic approach for patients with pancreatic cancer
Even among cancers, pancreatic cancer is an especially sinister form of disease.
The one-year survival rate is extremely low, and treatment progress has lagged...
Autoimmune disease : Researchers have developed a new approach
Autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, arise when the body's immune cells attack itself.
Current treatments eliminate these misfunctioning immune cells,...
Understanding mental illness : Researchers have determined how a crucial kind of neuron forms...
As a brain grows, the neurons within it establish themselves, forming lasting connections with their neighbors.
They're creating the vast cell networks that ensure...
Scientists have uncovered how we comprehend the words and other sounds we hear
Scientists have uncovered a new "division of labor" between our brain's two hemispheres in how we comprehend the words and other sounds we hear...
