by Jolanta Burke, The Conversation “Tell me about your mother.” Credit: Syda Productions/Shutterstock For over a century, psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers focused people’s attention on the past. And so when Mary struggles to maintain romantic relationships, she blames her past boyfriends for it. When Chris battles with addiction, he digs into his memories from childhood...
Richard Mark Kirkner June 16, 2022 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Erratic sleep patterns over years or even decades, along with a patient’s age and history of depression, may be harbingers of cognitive impairment later in life, an analysis of decades of data from a large sleep study has found. “What we were a little surprised to find in...
by Roger Johansson and Mikael Johansson, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Humans have a fascinating ability to recreate events in the mind’s eye, in exquisite detail. Over 50 years ago, Donald Hebb and Ulrich Neisser, the forefathers of cognitive psychology, theorized that eye movements are vital for our ability to do this. They pointed out we move our...
Jane Ridley Jun 15, 2022, 11:54 AM Other parents assumed Barnaby was much older than 2 and asked his mom why he still used a baby bottle. Courtesy of Erica Brownsell Barnaby Brownsell developed a “sizable” penis and pubic hair at the age of 2. Doctors told his family this was caused by prolonged exposure to his...
by Flinders University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fewer than 3% of people with mental health conditions living in Australian residential aged care facilities accessed government-subsidized mental health services, a new analysis from Flinders University and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) has found, with calls for organizational and policy changes to improve...
Sponsored Content by TOFWERK Jun 21 2022 Reviewed by Emily Magee Exhaled breath analysis is a potential method for pharmacokinetic investigations aimed at understanding the transformations, distribution and destiny of exogenous compounds in the human body. Image Credit: TOFWERK The measurement of volatile and semi-volatile organic molecules in breath allows non-invasive and real-time monitoring of metabolic processes,...
On its surface, the subreddit for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a den of tongue-in-cheek humor; its logo reimagines the classic Reddit alien gripping its gut in discomfort, scatological memes abound, and the most active members sit “on the porcelain throne.” Beyond the joking veneer, however, the online community shares stories of how the disorder has tinged almost every...
by University of California – San Diego Credit: Nano Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01328 A new combination therapy to combat cancer could one day consist of a plant virus and an antibody that activates the immune system’s “natural killer” cells, shows a study by researchers at the University of California San Diego. In mouse models of colon cancer,...
by Evangeline Mantzioris, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Most of you will have noticed hosting a dinner party is harder than it used to be. One friend is gluten-free, another is dairy-free, one can’t eat onion and two more are vegetarian. Are food intolerances increasing? Or do we just hear more about them now? What are food...
by Flinders University Optimization of the VAIA method. A) Nitrocellulose membranes dotted with target antigens are concentrically placed in a VFD reactor housing a quartz tube (20 mm OD, 17.5 mm ID, 18.5 cm in length). The VFD reactor tube is tilted at 45° and rotated at 1500 rpm throughout the assay steps. At this speed the shear stress is...
