Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Foster Care Improves Brain Activity in Institutionalized Kids

The study, in the July/August 2009 issue of the journal Child Development, was carried out as part of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a longitudinal…

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Brain Regions for Social Cognition Develop by Age 6

In the last decade, a group of regions has been discovered in the human brain that are specifically used for social cognition. A new study in the July/August…

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Teen Girls’ Brain Scans Reveal Unique Emotion Circuit Activation

Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older, but not in boys. The study by Daniel Pine,…

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Alzheimer's risk: Would you want to know?

These findings help address a longstanding debate about whether learning such information might cause lasting psychological harm, at least among those with a…

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Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete: A Sturdier Building Solution

Conventional means of internal reinforcement for concrete member in buildings involve steel bars. Yet for structures that function in harsh environments like…

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Fluorescent Probes Enhance Monitoring of Chemotherapy Effectiveness

Apoptosis is a carefully orchestrated sequence of intracellular events that leads to the cell's death. “The cell takes itself apart in a finite series of…

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HIV Progression: Why Women Experience Faster Decline Than Men

One of the continuing mysteries of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is why women usually develop lower viral levels than men following acute HIV-1 infection but progress…

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Diet’s Role in Flame Retardant Exposure: PBDE Insights

PBDEs have been measured in dust, air and both animal- and plant-derived foods. Dust has been thought to be the foremost route of exposure to PBDEs, but the…

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Chemical Concentrations In Milk Persist During Lactation

This new finding also challenges the idea that early milk should be pumped and discarded as a means of reducing infant exposure to persistent organic…

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Citrus Flavonoid May Help Prevent Obesity, Study Reveals

The study, led by Murray Huff of the Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario looked at a flavonoid (plant-based bioactive molecule)…

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Curcumin May Lower Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women

Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that curcumin, a popular Indian spice derived from the turmeric root, could reduce the cancer risk for women…

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Cohabiting Before Engagement: Higher Divorce Risk Revealed

University of Denver (DU) researchers find that couples who live together before they are engaged have a higher chance of getting divorced than those who wait…

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IQ’s Role in Heart Disease Disparities by Socioeconomic Status

Authors of the study published in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal [1] today (Wednesday 15 July), analysed data from a group of…

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Mars Mineral Study Reveals Insights on Planetary Temperature

The study is published this week in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring and will be used to interpret the data from the soil temperature sensor of NASA's…

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Bird Populations Split: New Study on Speciation Insights

Speciation, the process by which different populations of the same species split into separate species, is central to evolution. But it's notoriously hard to…

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Finnish study identifies factors that increase death in stroke patients ages 15 to 49

Heavy drinking, being 45 to 49 years old, type 1 diabetes or having a preceding infection are associated with more than twice the risk of death in stroke…

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