Where the brain processes spiritual experiences
Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience — the sense of connection to something greater than oneself. (more…)
Category Archives: Health
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Forscher zeigen, wie die Toxine des resistenten Bakteriums Clostridium difficile in Darmzellen eindringen
Die Therapie bakterieller Infektionen mit Antibiotika schädigt häufig die Darmflora und führt zu Durchfall und Darmentzündungen. Oftmals sind Bakterien mit dem Namen Clostridium difficile, die gegen Antibiotika resistent sind, dafür verantwortlich. (more…)
Watch Your Step: How Vision Leads Locomotion
AUSTIN, Texas — Using new technologies to track how vision guides foot placement, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin come one step closer in determining what is going on in the brain while we walk, paving the way for better treatment for mobility impairments — strokes, aging and Parkinson’s — and technology development — prosthetics and robots. (more…)
Fat-sensing hormone helps control tadpole metamorphosis
ANN ARBOR — When tadpoles are but tadpoles, they’re voracious eaters, chomping down all of the plant matter in their paths. (more…)
Study reveals vision’s role in vowel perception
In a study based at Brown University, researchers found that the motion and configuration of a speaker’s lips are key components of the information people gather when distinguishing vowels in speech.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — For all talkers, except perhaps the very best ventriloquists, the production of speech is accompanied by visible facial movements. Because speech is more than just sound, researchers set out to ascertain the exact visual information people seek when distinguishing vowel sounds. (more…)
UCLA study finds that more than 78,000 U.S. children are – or have been – married
A new report by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers found that approximately 78,400 children in the U.S. are or have been married.
Although all states in the U.S. set 18 as the legal age minimum for marriage, exceptions to the minimum can be granted in every state under varying conditions, including parental consent and official approval. (more…)
Bed Bug Histamines Are Substantial, Persistent in Infested Homes
New research findings could turn perceptions of the already despised bed bug from nuisance pest into medically important threat. A study from North Carolina State University shows that histamine levels are substantially higher in homes infested by bed bugs than in pest-free homes, and that these histamine levels persist for months – even if the bed bugs have been eliminated from the home. (more…)
Looking to mosquitoes for a way to develop painless microneedles
Research finds four keys to piercing skin without hurting
A mosquito can insert a needle-like probe into your skin and draw blood for several minutes without you even noticing.
Researchers at The Ohio State University believe we can learn from nature’s design of the mosquito to create a painless microneedle for medical purposes. (more…)