If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left your children confused and frightened, there are several ways to help them feel more secure, a psychologist says. First and foremost: Talk to your kids, and be honest, said Christopher Lynch, director of Pediatric Behavioral Medicine for Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, N.J. Kids can often tell when parents...
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Estimated amplitude of a neural electric field at each electrode over an 800 millisecond time frame. Credit: Dimitris Pinotsis. A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons. As the brain...
by Osaka University Anti-RGMa antibody treatment ameliorates NMO pathophysiology. Credit: Takahide Itokazu Autoimmune diseases are the molecular equivalent of “friendly fire”: The body attacks itself instead of harmful invaders. Now, researchers from Japan have found that interrupting the complex interplay between different immune cell types can help prevent the damage that this friendly fire causes...
by Georgia Institute of Technology Bilal Haider and his tiny window. Credit: Jerry Grillo Bilal Haider is studying how multiple areas of the brain work together for visual perception. This could help researchers understand if neural activity “traffic jams” underlie all kinds of visual impairments: from running a red light when visual attention is elsewhere,...
by RCSI Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research carried out by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has revealed new information about how blood clots are formed during wound healing. The research, published tomorrow in Science Advances, examines the behavior of platelets at a wound site, specifically their ability to sense where within a blood clot they are and...
by Cindy Krischer Goodman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Now that COVID-19 surges have subsided in South Florida, patients are arriving at local clinics with neglected medical conditions that have advanced into dangerous stages. For Floridians lacking insurance or easy access to care, forgoing doctor follow-ups and preventative screenings has had particularly harsh...
by McMaster University Lead author Sebastian Himbert (left) and professor Maikel Rheinstadter (right), who supervised the paper, in their lab at McMaster University. Credit: Matthew Clarke/McMaster University Physicists, chemists and immunologists at McMaster University have teamed up to modify red blood cells to transport viral agents which can safely trigger the immune system to protect...
by Texas Biomedical Research Institute Researchers compared what happens when they give a saline solution (left), generic antibody (middle) or IL-10 blocker (right) with the BCG vaccine to mice. Mice given the IL-10 blocker were able to control TB infection in the lungs far better than the others. The dark pink spots show areas with...
by Rutgers University Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research may help scientists locate immature cells in the central nervous system that could shed light on the causes of neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis—and autoimmune disease that affects the brain and nervous system—and allow for the development of better therapeutic treatments. In a new study, published...
Greg Slabodkin Senior Editor JuSun via Getty Images Dive Brief: FDA on Tuesday issued a cybersecurity alert warning about seven vulnerabilities in software company PTC’s Axeda agent and desktop server, third-party components that enable remote service via the internet, which are used in medical devices from several manufacturers. The agency said if the vulnerabilities in the web-based agent and desktop...
