Health and Medicine
This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.
Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.
Long-term memory and lack of mental images
Bonn researchers find connection between autobiographical memory and aphantasia. When people lack visual imagination, this is known as aphantasia. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn…
Artificial intelligence recognizes patterns in behaviour
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University Hospital Bonn and the University of Bonn have created an open-source platform known as A-SOiD that can learn and predict user-defined behaviors, just…
False alarm of the immune system during muscle disease Image
New findings on the link between myotonic dystrophy 2 and autoimmune diseases. Researchers at the University Hospitals of Dresden and Bonn of the DFG Transregio 237 and from the Cluster…
New inhalable in lung cancer research
… is a big step forward. Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates in the world. Cytokines, which are small…
On the trail of nerve ageing
MHH junior researcher investigates the influence of the immune system on age-related disorders of sensory neurones. The peripheral nervous system includes sensory and motor nerve cells that run through our…
Brain waves are part of memory
Neuroscientists from Bonn, New York, and Freiburg discover interactions between so-called “ripples” and nerve cells during human memory processes. Spatial navigation and spatial memory play a central role in our…