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Study Links Antidepressant Use to Higher Relapse Rates

In a paper that is likely to ignite new controversy in the hotly debated field of depression and medication, evolutionary psychologist Paul Andrews concludes…

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Over half of Alzheimer's cases may be preventable, say researchers

Analyzing data from studies around the world involving hundreds of thousands of participants, Barnes concluded that worldwide, the biggest modifiable risk…

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Single TBI Linked to Long-Term Neurodegeneration Risks

Years after a single traumatic brain injury (TBI), survivors still show changes in their brains. In a new study, researchers from the Perelman School of…

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Penn Researchers Find Neural Signature of ‘Mental Time Travel’

The research was conducted by professor Michael Kahana of the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences and graduate student Jeremy R….

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Survey Predicts PTSD Risk With Just 8 Questions

“Depression and PTSD exert a significant, independent, and persistent effect on general health, work status, somatic symptoms, adjustment to illness, and…

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Trastuzumab Boosts Survival in HER2-Positive Cancer Patients

Based on these study results, lead researcher Adam Brufsky, M.D., Ph.D., said, “We clearly now know that these women should get trastuzumab and potentially…

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OHSU scientists discover new role for vitamin C in the eye — and the brain

Nerve cells in the eye require vitamin C in order to function properly — a surprising discovery that may mean vitamin C is required elsewhere in the brain for…

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Speed limit on babies' vision

The results show that while infants can perceive flicker or movement, they may not be able to identify the individual elements within a moving or changing…

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Dentists can identify people with undiagnosed diabetes, Columbia researchers show

The study sought to develop and evaluate an identification protocol for high blood sugar levels in dental patients and was supported by a research grant from…

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Premature Infants’ Brain Ultrasounds Linked to Future Psychiatric Risks

Researchers who followed a group of premature infants until age 16 found that those with neonatal ultrasound abnormalities were at increased risk for specific…

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Trastuzumab Boosts Survival in HER2-Positive Cancer Patients

“We’ve known that people who have had MS for a long time are at a greater risk of low bone density and broken bones, but we didn’t know whether this was…

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Low dose naltrexone (LDN): Harnessing the body's own chemistry to treat human ovarian cancer

When LDN is combined with chemotherapy, there is an additive inhibitory action on tumorigenesis. This discovery, reported in the July 2011 issue of…

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Indirubin — Component Of Chinese herbal remedy might block brain tumor's spread

The researchers discovered that the compound, indirubin, both blocks the migration of glioblastoma cells, preventing their spread to other areas of the brain,…

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WSU Study Reveals Spinal Cord Injury’s Impact on Self-Rated Health

In a study of self-rated health (SRH) published this month in the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, Cathy Lysack, Ph.D., deputy director of WSU's Institute of…

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New Approach to Combat Antiviral Resistance in Influenza

UC Irvine researchers have found a new approach to the creation of customized therapies for virulent flu strains that resist current antiviral drugs.Using…

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How Too Much Sitting Impacts Your Health

Lack of physical exercise is often implicated in many disease processes. However, sedentary behavior, or too much sitting, as distinct from too little…

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