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Spirituality can have a positive impact when it comes to both general and serious illness, researchers say. Incorporating spirituality into health care for those who are spiritual could be beneficial when it comes to hea...

Inhibitory and excitatory networks in the brain's visual system develop through different processes, even if the organization of the networks is similar.

African penguins modify their calls to sound more similar to their partners and colony mates over time, showing a form of vocal learning known in only a few animals

In young children, poor nutrition coupled with living in a chaotic environment may be detrimental to cognitive and executive function.

While the overall memories of an experience are stored in the hippocampus, individual details are parsed and stored in the prefrontal cortex.

A study of the cerebral cortex discovered there is a robust response to sound during sleep that largely mirrored the brain's response during wakefulness. However, differences in brain waves that help the brain understand...

New abortion bans and restrictions could result in life-threatening consequences for women of childbearing age with epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and migraine due to restrictions placed on their ability to access life-sa...

Symptoms of depression preceded the onset of stroke in a number of patients, and depression symptoms worsened following the stroke.

Study reveals how reduced function of the rgs2 protein in the nucleus accumbens contributes to symptoms associated with depression. The findings may assist with the development of new therapeutics to help treat depressio...

Previous analyses within the nucleus accumbens showed that different genes were turned on or off in women, but not in men diagnosed with depression. These changes could have caused symptoms of depression, or alternativel...

A man's overzealous intake of vitamin D supplements ended poorly, requiring a hospital stay for over a week.

People with systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, who received a 'booster' dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine after full vaccination are roughly half as likely to have a subsequent 'breakthrough' COVID-19 infection, a new study ...

The team claims to have given a robot self-awareness of its location in physical space, but others are sceptical

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Researchers describe the biochemical pathway that results in the generation of oxidized mitochondrial DNA, how it is expelled by mitochondria and how it triggers the complex and destructive inflammatory response that fol...

New research brings into focus how prions might be formed and how they can result in different disease outcomes.

A new analysis describes how U.K. residents shifted the amount of time they spent on various activities over the course of the pandemic and whether they participated online or in-person.

Engineers have developed microparticles made of a biocompatible polymer that can deliver a payload at different time points and could be used to create 'self-boosting' vaccines.

Feedback investigates weird trolley problems, the Palaeolithic cannibal diet, fussy otters and microrobot dentistry

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) researchers and their collaborators at home and abroad have successfully demonstrated a new platform for guiding the compressed light waves in very thin van der ...

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