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What Helps the Brain Reach "Flow"?
Flow is a state of peak enjoyment that occurs when you are doing something that is difficult and you are highly skilled at. In an effort to see what the brain does during flow, researchers are looking at how people experience flow while playing a video game.
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Why Songbird Mating Relies on Dopamine
A study suggests that dopamine may play a key role in shaping what songs female songbirds enjoy, which may ultimately affect mating as females choose their mates based on the songs they prefer.
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Tracking Piscine Diversity in the Amazon, Without Catching Fish
A scientific expedition in the Javari River basin on the border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru has shown the use of environmental DNA sequencing to be feasible to investigate fish diversity in the Amazon.
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Re-Evaluating How Genetics Affect Risk for OCD
According to a study, both rare and commonly observed differences in the DNA letters strung along a person’s chromosomes can explain about a third of the risk for being diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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New Review Identifies Three Types of Alzheimer's Disease
A new review has challenged the idea that Alzheimer's disease is a monolithic condition, rather suggesting that patients can be easily divided into three groups depending on their presentation.
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Antibody Protection Against Harmful Gut Fungi May Be Disrupted in Crohn's Disease
According to a new study, antibody protection against harmful forms of fungi in the gut may be disrupted in some patients with Crohn’s disease.
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How the Brain Codes in Value Decisions
In 2019 University of California San Diego researchers discovered the area of the brain where “value decisions” are made. New research is now revealing details about how such dynamic information is processed.
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Vehicles an Underestimated Source of Urban Ammonia Air Pollution
Satellite data from before and during the spring 2020 lockdown in Los Angeles shows that vehicles, rather than agriculture, are the main source of urban airborne ammonia, which contributes to air pollution and harms human health.
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A Close Look at the Effect of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals on Gene Expression
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can lead to certain forms of cancer. But exactly how certain compounds interfere with hormone binding to the receptor is not always easy to decipher. Researchers have developed a new live-cell quantitative analysis of ER dynamics.
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New Method Gives Insights Into How Cells Are Changed by Disease
A new “image analysis pipeline” is giving scientists rapid new insight into how disease or injury have changed the body, down to the individual cell.
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