Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Highlights from the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

    Stress and motherhood, tandem MRIs, the memory benefits of resveratrol and more from the organization's meeting November 12-16 in Washington, D.C.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Busting blood clots with a nanoparticle

    An experimental technology that delivers medication directly to a dangerous blockage might augment heart attack treatment, a new study finds.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Highlights from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

    Vitamin D and heart disease, the effectiveness of external defibrillators, a shot to lower cholesterol, and more from the Orlando, Fla., meeting.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Magic trick reveals unconscious knowledge

    People know more than they think when it comes to visual information, study shows.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Exceptional memory linked to bulked-up parts of brain

    People with total recall of their life’s events have enlargement in a region also associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Childhood sex abuse tied to heart risk

    Women victimized as children or in adolescence have increased cardiac disease in adulthood, a study shows.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Sleep doesn’t help old folks remember

    Reduced quality of slumber with age erases memory benefits of snoozing.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Mirrors can alleviate arthritis

    Swapped-hand illusion produces drop in pain ratings, preliminary study shows.

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  9. Humans

    Future wars may be fought by synapses

    Neuroscientists consider defense applications of recent insights into how the brain works.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Hands off and on in schizophrenia

    A broken connection to one’s physical self may cause a rubber hand to seem like a real one.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Prompt liver transplant boosts survival in heavy drinkers

    Some patients with severe organ inflammation from alcohol use can benefit from the operation.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    First brain image of a dream created

    Feat opens the door to probing the stuff of nocturnal dramas.

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