YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, Conn. — A hallmark of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, is the reluctance to make eye contact with others in natural conditions. Although eye contact is a critically important part of everyday interactions, scientists have been limited in studying the neurological basis of live social interaction with eye-contact in ASD because of the...
Month: <span>November 2022</span>
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Research reveals key differences in the brains of boys and girls with binge eating disorder
by Keck School of Medicine of USC Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Conducting the first known comparison of the brains of boys and girls with binge eating disorder, a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found significant differences in brain structure between the sexes. The research was recently published in Psychological Medicine....
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Rare, deadly genetic disease successfully treated in utero for first time
by University of California, San Francisco Patient Ayla Bashir. Credit: University of California, San Francisco Using a protocol developed at UC San Francisco, physicians have successfully treated a fetus with a devastating genetic disorder for the first time, and the child is now thriving as a toddler, a case study in the New England Journal of...
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Night owls show enhanced fear acquisition, which may increase the risk of developing anxiety
by BIAL Foundation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study shows that the higher vulnerability of evening chronotype individuals (individuals with the propensity to be more productive at night or at dawn) to anxiety and related disorders may be mediated by altered emotional learning. Chronotypes are our circadian preference profiles; that is, they refer to...
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Using SNAP benefits may slow memory decline in older adults
by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain Eligible older adults who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the United States may have slower memory decline than eligible people who do not participate, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The researchers...
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Severely stressful events worsen symptoms of long COVID
by NYU Langone Health Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The death of a loved one, financial or food insecurity, or a newly developed disability were some of the strongest predictors of whether a patient hospitalized for COVID-19 would experience symptoms of long COVID a year later, a new study finds. Led by researchers from NYU Grossman...
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ImLive Review
ImLive is actually a webcam online video talk platform that gives a variety of features that will make your cam experience unforgettable. Examples include an advanced google search, HIGH DEFINITION live streaming in private chats and a multi-viewer screen that allows you to enjoy up to six cameras at once. Registering on ImLive is normally...
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Scientists say eye-disease drug may also help fight COVID
by Wayne Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles This chart shows levels of SARS-CoV-2 and deactivated YAP (pYAP127) in healthy cultured cells (mock) and cultured cells infected with the original strain of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 Parental) and the Delta strain (SARS-CoV-2 Delta). Asterisks in the insets indicate uninfected cells. Credit: UCLA/Broad Stem Cell Research Center An...
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Women could be at higher risk for long COVID, according to new research
by Cody Mello-Klein, Northeastern University Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University A team of medical professionals, clinicians, epidemiologists and political scientists recently published the results of a study that revealed new information about the prevalence of post-acute sequelae of SARS CoV-2 infection, otherwise known as “long COVID.” Mauricio Santillana, professor physics and network science at Northeastern and director of...
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Mysterious outbreak of bone-eating TB resembles an ancestral form
by Karl Leif Bates, Duke University Scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB. Credit: NIAID Tuberculosis is usually encountered as a disease of the lungs, but in 2% of cases in the U.S. it can also be found in the bones. The 9,000-year-old skeletons of some Egyptian mummies show signs of having tuberculosis infection...