by Roberto Inchingolo, Human Brain Project Cortical representation learning through perturbed and adversarial dreaming. Credit: Deperrois et al A new study by researchers from the University of Bern, Switzerland suggests that dreams—especially those that simultaneously appear realistic, but, upon a closer look, bizarre—help our brain learn and extract generic concepts from previous experiences. The study,...
by Katie Marquedant, Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain About one in 20,000 infants is born with what’s called a congenital giant nevus—a huge, pigmented mole that may cover much of the face and body. Due to the mole’s appearance and its risk of later developing into skin cancer, many patients decide to have...
by American Gastroenterological Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Those with a normal body mass index (BMI) with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are more likely to have cardiovascular disease than those who are overweight or living with obesity, according to research selected for presentation at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2022. Roughly 25 percent of adults...
by American Gastroenterological Association Pancreatic cancer cells (blue) growing as a sphere encased in membranes (red). Credit: National Cancer Institute Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) were six times more likely to have had gallstone disease within the year prior to diagnosis than non-cancer patients, suggesting gallstones could be a warning sign for this aggressive...
by American Gastroenterological Association Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Adults aged 45 to 64 experienced a nearly doubled rate of esophageal cancer and a 50 percent increase in the precancerous condition Barrett’s esophagus between 2012 and 2019, according to a database analysis of roughly five million patients to be presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “This...
Karolinska Institutet A bottle of lithium capsules. Credit: James Heilman, MD/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Six predictors could help determine the amount of lithium needed to treat patients with bipolar disorder, according to a large study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The study, published in the journal The Lancet Psychiatry, also pinpoints genetic markers that...
by Johannes Angerer, Medical University of Vienna Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Unhealthy levels of hypertension are increasing globally, especially during puberty, with boys affected three to four times more frequently than girls: Around 20% of male adolescents have elevated blood pressure. The main causes of primary hypertension (hypertension not triggered by another disease) in young...
by ESPCI Paris Credit: Alexandre Dizeux Two successive studies by the Physics for Medicine Paris laboratory (ESPCI Paris-PSL, Inserm, CNRS) highlight advances in non-invasive 3D ultrasound imaging, making it possible to observe blood flow in real time in two whole organs, the heart and the brain. This work was published in JACC Cardiovascular Imaging and featured on the...
by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study in mice has identified FXR1, a protein in the same family as the one implicated in Fragile X syndrome, as a potential target for creating a new type of blood pressure-lowering medicine, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Vascular Discovery: From...
by Queensland University of Technology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain QUT genetic researchers have found blood proteins that cause migraine and have a shared link with Alzheimer’s disease that could potentially be prevented by repurposing existing therapeutics. Findings from the genetic analyses were published in Nature Communications by Professor Dale Nyholt and his Ph.D. candidate Hamzeh Tanha from the QUT...
