Windows to the soul: Pupils reveal ‘aphantasia’ – the absence of visual imagination
The study, led by researchers from UNSW Sydney and published in eLife, found that the pupils of people with aphantasia did not respond when asked to imagine...
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When severe infection causes long-term mood disorders: A promising avenue to prevent mental illness following a transient infection
The brain is able to detect and regulate localized or systemic inflammation by using two communication pathways. The first, humoral, makes use of specific brain...
Unexpected protein could play role in common brain disorder
Scientists have known for years that amyloid fibrils — fibrous, ropelike structures formed by closely linked protein molecules — are present in the brains of...
Program to match mental health patients to psychotherapists’ strengths funded for large-scale implementation
A University of Massachusetts Amherst psychologist has received a $4.6 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to implement a program that matches mental...
Deforestation of Indigenous lands could prevent Brazil from achieving climate change mitigation targets
Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon are under constant pressure, and deforestation of these areas has accelerated in recent years. Some of them, such as...
Bioengineers visualize fat storage in fruit flies
For the first time, researchers have visually monitored, in high resolution, the timing and location of fat storage within the intact cells of fruit flies....
Mental illness associated with increased death from cardiovascular disease
Compared to the general population, people with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, have higher levels of cardiovascular-related mortality, and that association has become stronger over...
UTA team aims to establish health, safety measures for construction field workers
Sharareh “Sherri” Kermanshachi, associate professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, has received a $200,000 federal grant to lead an investigation...
Portable, point-of-care COVID-19 test discerns alpha variant from earlier strains
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A point-of-care COVID-19 test developed by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now detect and differentiate the alpha variant of...
A ‘greener’ alternative for red-colored smoke
The red smoke of a flare on a roadway warns motorists to be cautious, but the anthraquinone dyes currently used to produce this smoke are...
Jupiter’s moon has splendid dunes
Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like “Dune.” Now,...
COVID-19 pneumonia increases dementia risk
A new study from the from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and MU Health Care shows patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia have a...
Bone growth protein might help more newborns survive severe lung disorders
When babies are born with alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACDMPV), their skin starts to turn blue from the under-oxygenated blood in...
Almost ready for prime time: deep UV photodetectors head to real-world testing
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 – Numerous devices and detectors sense and catalog deep ultraviolet frequencies that the Earth's ozone layer otherwise absorbs. Most solar-blind space-borne...
Twisting Oreos shows creme filling sticks to one side
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 – Imagine the perfect way to eat an Oreo. Perhaps you twist the top layer, separating the cookie into two parts,...
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