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Do You Hear This Silent GIF?
A silent GIF depicting electrical pylons playing skip-rope is inducing auditory hallucinations in some people.
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Marijuana May Not be a Plausible Alternative to Opioid Drugs in Pain Treatment
Patients believe using marijuana helps them with their symptoms, but the study’s results could indicate the opposite is true for those in addiction treatment.
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MRS Identifies Chemical Imbalance in Brains of Smartphone Addicted Youngsters
Scientists have used magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which measures the brain’s chemical composition, to identify an imbalance in the brain chemistry of young people addicted to smartphones and the internet.
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Being Married Reduces Your Risk of Developing Dementia
Pooled analysis of the data showed that compared with those who were married, lifelong singletons were 42 per cent more likely to develop dementia, after taking account of age and sex.
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Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis Between Humans and Non-Human Primate Brains Reveals What Makes us Human
A large-scale study performed histological and transcriptomic analysis on human and non-human primate brains to compare differences.
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Mindfulness Meditation has been Linked with Reduced Stress While Waiting for Potentially Bad News.
In a study of Law students awaiting their Bar exam results, researchers found participants who were naturally more mindful or who practiced mindfulness managed their expectations more effectively by bracing for the worst later in the waiting period and perceived themselves as coping better.
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New Microscope Set to be a Game Changer in Optogenetics Studies
New microscope has more than 100 times larger field of view for studying brain activity.
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NIH Study of WWII Evacuees Suggests Mental Illness May be Passed to Offspring
Mental illness associated with early childhood adversity may be passed from generation to generation, according to a study of adults whose parents evacuated Finland as children during World War II.
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Structure of Primary Optogenetic Tool Revealed
Researchers have determined the 3-D structure of channelrhodopsin 2, a membrane protein widely used in optogenetics to control nerve cells with light.This will allow meaningful mutations to be introduced into the protein to adjust its properties to the requirements of a specific experiment.
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Synpromics Announces Collaboration with UCL to Develop Revolutionary Gene Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
Synpromics Ltd is pleased to announce a new collaboration with UCL to generate a range of synthetic gene promoters for the central nervous system (CNS), to develop a gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease.
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