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How Experiencing Traumatic Stress Leads to Aggression

May 19, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — Traumatic stress can cause aggression by strengthening two brain pathways involved in emotion, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. Targeting those pathways via deep...

COVID-19 and Role of Tissue Engineering

May 12, 2020
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New Rochelle, NY — Tissue engineering has a unique set of tools and technologies for developing preventive strategies, diagnostics, and treatments that can play an important role during the ongoing...

Sustainable Recovery of Nutrients from Urine

May 7, 2020
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New York, NY — Ammonia is a key component of fertilizer and vital in supporting plant growth and ultimately providing food for populations around the world. It is also a major pollutant that, after...

New Insights into How Genes Control Courtship and Aggression

April 30, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Fruit flies, like many animals, engage in a variety of courtship and fighting behaviours. Now, Salk scientists have uncovered the molecular mechanisms by which two sex-determining genes...

Study Indicates Artificial Intelligence Could Help Stem Tide of School Violence

April 29, 2020
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Cincinnati, OH — By leveraging the basics of artificial intelligence technology now used to predict risk for suicide or other mental health issues, researchers developed an AI system that analyzes...

Race and Income Shape COVID-19 Risk, Says Study

April 29, 2020
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Boston, MA — Underlying conditions that increase risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 are much more common among Black, Native American, and lower-income people in the United States. The...

COVID-19: Downside of Social Distancing

April 27, 2020
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Munich, Germany — When faced with danger, humans draw closer together. Social distancing thwarts this impulse. Professor Ophelia Deroy from Ludwigs-Maximilians Universitaet in Munich (LMU) and colleagues...

Key Brain Region for Controlling Binge Drinking has been Found

April 20, 2020
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Charleston, SC — A team of National Institutes of Health-funded researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina has found that deactivating a stress-signalling system in a brain area known...

Aha! + Aaaah: Creative Insight Triggers Neural Reward Signal

April 14, 2020
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Philadelphia, PA — Creativity is one of humanity’s most distinctive abilities and enduring mysteries. Innovative ideas and solutions have enabled our species to survive existential threats and...

Follow Your Gut

April 7, 2020
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Lisboa, Portugal — Food has something of a “magic hold” on us, as certain flavours and textures can pretty much dictate what we do. Just think about the spicy dish that keeps bringing you...

Removing Novel Coronavirus from Water Cycle

April 6, 2020
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Riverside, CA — Scientists know that coronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-19 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain infectious for days — or even longer — in sewage and...

What are You Looking At? ‘Virtual’ Communication in The Age of Social Distancing

March 30, 2020
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Boca Raton, FL — From health care to education to media, social distancing across the globe due to coronavirus (COVID-19) has created the need to conduct business “virtually” using Skype,...

Institute Invites Public to Join App-Based Detect Study, Leveraging Wearable Data to Potentially Flag Onset of Viral Illnesses

March 28, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — The Scripps Research Translational Institute has launched an app-based research program that will analyze participants’ wearable health data—including heart rates, sleep and activity...

Not a ‘Math Person’? You may be Better at Learning to Code than You Think

March 3, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Want to learn to code? Put down the math book. Practice those communication skills instead. New research from the University of Washington finds that a natural aptitude for learning...

Study Finds Empathy can be Detected in People Whose Brains are at Rest

February 20, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA researchers have found that it is possible to assess a person’s ability to feel empathy by studying their brain activity while they are resting rather than while they are...

New Imaging Technology Tracks Complex Social Behaviour

February 5, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at the University of California San Diego have a much clearer idea thanks to the evolution of an advanced imaging system designed to record ultra-precise brain activities...

Brain Networks Come ‘Online’ During Adolescence to Prepare Teenagers for Adult Life

January 30, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — New brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence, allowing teenagers to develop more complex adult social skills, but potentially putting them at increased risk of mental...

Study Challenges Assumptions About Social Interaction Difficulties in Autism

January 29, 2020
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Richardson, TX — Autism is characterized in part by an individual’s challenges communicating and interacting socially with others. These difficulties have typically been studied in isolation...

Hyperactive Immune System Gene Causes Schizophrenia-Like Changes in Mice

January 16, 2020
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Boston, MA — Excessive activity of an immune system gene previously linked to schizophrenia reproduces neural and behavioural aspects of the disease in mice, according to a new study publishing on...

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