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Children with autism show distinct brain features related to motor impairment
White matter in the brains of children with autism found to be distinct from the white matter in children with developmental coordination disorder...
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Positive sounds during REM sleep may help nightmares
Nightmare disorder is characterized as having such dreams so frequently that they cause “significant distress or impairment.
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Fentanyl vaccine a potential ‘game changer’ for opioid crisis
In studies in male and female mice, the vaccine generated significant and long-lasting levels of anti-fentanyl antibodies that were highly...
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Extreme temperature shifts tied to increase in hate speech
The minimum number of hate tweets appears to occur when temperatures are between 15° and 18° C (59° to 65° F).
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Medical school culinary medicine programs grow despite limited funding
As part of Dr. Marvasti’s program, students learn cooking fundamentals through chef demonstrations and hands-on practice – to teach students how...
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Electrolyte disturbances a harbinger of eating disorders?
Electrolyte abnormalities were seen well ahead – more than a year – of the time when patients were diagnosed with eating disorders.
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U.S. dementia rate drops as education, women’s employment rises
Investigators speculated that the decline in dementia prevalence reflects larger socioeconomic changes in the United States.
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Meditation equal to first-line medication for anxiety
“The medication worked great, like it always does, but the meditation also worked great; we saw about a 30% drop in symptoms for both groups.”
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Imaging IDs brain activity related to dissociative symptoms
Severe dissociative disorders “remain at best underappreciated and, at worst, frequently go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed,” said Dr. Lauren Lebois...
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ED visits for kids with suicidal thoughts increasing: Study
Last year, the CDC announced that suicide is the second leading cause of death among 10- to 19-year-olds.
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Nutrition for cognition: A missed opportunity in U.S. seniors?
Those who didn’t use the SNAP program experienced 2 more years of cognitive aging compared with program users.