Monthly Archives: Ottobre 2019
A new video game fosters more social initiation for those with ASD
Narcís Parés, a member of the Cognitive Media Technologies research group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at UPF, is working...
Only 50% of those with eating disorders seek help
A School of Public Health professor has been extensively researching eating disorders in the United States and has found trends that warrant increased screening...
New research suggests that patients with sepsis have a better chance of survival when...
New research led by Virginia Commonwealth University and published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that patients with sepsis...
Anti-cancer drugs can be repurposed for the treatment of infections caused by a wide...
No matter the pathogen - virus, bacterium or fungus - many "pick a specific type of lock" on the surface of cells, which allows...
Chronic sleep problems : Sleeping medications can help to reduce depression and suicidality
Insomnia is a driver of suicide, and particularly people with severe insomnia may safely benefit from taking a sedative to help address their sleep...
CBD blocks the psychiatric side-effects of THC
Researchers at Western University have shown for the first time the molecular mechanisms at work that cause cannabidiol, or CBD, to block the psychiatric...
How can we understand spoken language so quickly?
Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how we’re able to understand spoken language so rapidly, and it involves a huge and complex...
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease : researchers founds link with the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases enzyme
Treatments have been hard to pinpoint for a rare neurological disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), in part because so many variations of the condition exist....
Legal purchasers of handguns with a prior DUI conviction have a greater risk of...
Legal purchasers of handguns with a prior DUI conviction have a greater risk of a future arrest for a violent offense — including murder,...
Better quality of sleep is strongly associated with better academic performance in college
Two MIT professors have found a strong relationship between students’ grades and how much sleep they’re getting.
What time students go to bed and...
