Public Release: 15-Aug-2018 Urgent need to examine systemic causes of declining health in the US BMJ The ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States is a key contributor to the most recent declines in life expectancy, suggests a study published… Read More ›
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Research suggests association between gut bacteria and emotion
Public Release: 29-Jun-2017 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences IMAGE: This is Dr. Kirsten Tillisch, associate professor, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases at UCLA. Credit: UCLA Health FINDINGS Researchers have identified gut microbiota… Read More ›
TSRI anti-heroin vaccine found effective in non-human primates
Public Release: 6-Jun-2017 Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA – June 6, 2017 – A vaccine developed at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to block the “high” of heroin has proven effective in non-human primates. This is the… Read More ›
Disrupted fat breakdown in the brain makes mice dumb
Public Release: 19-May-2017 Study led by the University of Bonn elucidated a previously unknown possible cause of dementia University of Bonn IMAGE: Healthy control nerve cells with intact ‘garbage bags’ (red). Credit: © AG van Echten-Deckert/Uni Bonn A study… Read More ›
Study: ‘Moral enhancement’ technologies are neither feasible nor wise
Public Release: 16-May-2017 North Carolina State University A recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) finds that “moral enhancement technologies” — which are discussed as ways of improving human behavior –… Read More ›
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) damages memory and coordination, exercise can help recover
Public Release: 26-Apr-2017 Resistance exercises recover motor and memory impairment caused by flavor enhancer The Physiological Society A study in rats, published in Experimental Physiology, showed that resistance exercise recovers memory and motor impairment caused by the flavour enhancer monosodium… Read More ›
Gut bacteria tell the brain what animals should eat
Public Release: 25-Apr-2017 PLOS IMAGE: Gut bacteria tell the brain what animals should eat. Credit: Gil Costa Neuroscientists have, for the first time, shown that gut bacteria “speak” to the brain to control food choices in animals. In… Read More ›
Environmental ‘memories’ passed on for 14 generations
Public Release: 20-Apr-2017 CRG scientists have discovered that the impact of environmental change can be passed on in the genes of tiny nematode worms for at least 14 generations — the most that has ever been seen in animals… Read More ›
Low-dose penicillin in early life induces long-term behavioral changes
Public Release: 4-Apr-2017 McMaster University Hamilton, Ont. (April 4, 2017) – In a landmark study, researchers at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and McMaster University have found that providing clinical (low) doses of penicillin to pregnant mice and their offspring… Read More ›
Three brain chemicals affect how we handle uncertainty
Public Release: 15-Nov-2016 PLOS IMAGE: Brain chemicals and their role in how we deal with uncertainty. Credit: Edvard Munch and Roland Roberts New research has revealed how three important brain signaling chemicals affect the way that we handle uncertainty…. Read More ›
