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O'Donnell Brain Institute helps U.S. effort to study neural circuits behind learning, memory

UT Southwestern's O'Donnell Brain Institute will help in a national effort to understand the neural circuits behind learning, memory, and behavior.

3 Nov 2018

NIH increases funding through the BRAIN Initiative

The National Institutes of Health announces funding of more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, an exciting trans-agency effort to arm researchers with revolutionary tools to fundamentally understand the neural circuits that underlie the healthy and diseased brain.

2 Nov 2018

Research on student alcohol use can offer clues about interventions to reduce blackouts

College students who drink alcohol don't typically intend to drink to the point that they "black out," and they also don't fully grasp what specific drinking behaviors present the greatest risk of blackouts, a new series of studies finds.

2 Nov 2018

Zinc can protect against oxidative stress when taken along with coffee, tea, and chocolate

Ageing and a low life expectancy are caused, at least partly, by oxidative stress. A team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Ivana Ivanovi-Burmazovi from the Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), together with researchers from the USA, have discovered that zinc can activate an organic molecule, helping to protect against oxidative stress.

2 Nov 2018

Study offers hope of early detection, treatment of liver cancer

Liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, claiming 700,000 lives each year. Most cases are discovered too late for a cure -- but now a study offers hope of early detection, and targets for new treatments.

31 Oct 2018

Research reveals high stability of hepatitis B viruses

At room temperature, hepatitis B viruses (HBV) remain contagious for several weeks and they are even able to withstand temperatures of four degrees centigrade over the span of nine months.

30 Oct 2018

Research reveals Australia's changing alcohol trends

New research from La Trobe University has revealed that 30 per cent of Australians recently reduced the quantity of their alcohol consumption and a further 29 per cent reduced the frequency of their drinking, while six per cent kicked the habit for good.

29 Oct 2018

That’s a lot of scratch: The $48,329 allergy test

Janet Winston had a rash that wouldn't go away. The English professor from Eureka, Calif., always had been sensitive to ingredients in skin creams and cosmetics. This time, however, the antifungal cream she was prescribed to treat her persistent rash seemed to make things worse. Was she allergic to that, too?

29 Oct 2018

Consequence-based cognitive training may be more effective, studies suggest

Interventions aimed at reducing unhealthy behaviors often focus on retraining people's mental associations, but a series of studies suggests that showing people the consequences of the behaviors may be more effective.

29 Oct 2018

Stroke 'mimics' and 'chameleons' can complicate accurate diagnoses

Stroke specialists often see conditions known as stroke "mimics" and "chameleons" that can complicate accurate diagnoses, Loyola Medicine neurologists report in the November 2018 issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America.

26 Oct 2018

Alcohol changes the molecular basis of memory formation

A new study has shown how alcohol consumption fuels addiction by hijacking a conserved memory pathway in the brain and changing memory formation.

25 Oct 2018

Advertising for alcohol is common in British television, study reveals

A new study in the Journal of Public Health indicates that advertising for alcohol is common in British television, and may be a potential driver of alcohol use in young people.

25 Oct 2018

Targeting specific signaling pathway could provide new avenue for treating fetal alcohol syndrome

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are an array of conditions that can occur in a person whose mother consumed alcohol during pregnancy. Fetal alcohol syndrome, the most severe of these conditions, often results in physical abnormalities, behavioral development issues and intellectual disabilities.

24 Oct 2018

States explore paths to pay their share for Medicaid expansion — using political GPS

Last year, nearly 60 percent of Maine residents voted to expand the state's Medicaid program — an option provided by the Affordable Care Act that would extend health insurance to tens of thousands of the state's low-income people.

24 Oct 2018

Consensus on housing policies can make affordable housing a possibility for Americans

A lack of affordable housing is linked with many health problems, including asthma, stress and alcoholism.

24 Oct 2018

Despite lower risk factors, black men have higher rates of recidivism

People of color are incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates than White people, and men of all races have higher rates of recidivism.

23 Oct 2018

Study: 12% of frequent marijuana smokers experience cannabis withdrawal syndrome

As the number of Americans who regularly use cannabis has climbed, so too has the number of those experiencing cannabis withdrawal symptoms.

23 Oct 2018

Mapping the emotional labor and work of visual journalism

A QUT journalism academic says the current freelancer-heavy market for media professionals could be preventing photographers and video journalists who report on traumatic news events from accessing the support they need.

23 Oct 2018

Scientists discover primary, direct target of alcohol in the brain

When alcohol enters the brain, it causes neurons in a specialized region called the ventral tegmental area, or VTA -- also known as the "pleasure center" -- to release dopamine, a neurotransmitter that produces those feel-good sensations, and tells the brain that whatever it just experienced is worth getting more of.

23 Oct 2018

Sleeping Beauty technique helps identify genes responsible for NAFLD-associated liver cancer

With an estimated twenty-thousand protein-coding genes in the human genome, pinpointing a specific gene or pathway responsible for a particular disease can be like finding a needle in the proverbial haystack.

17 Oct 2018

Alcohol News and Research

O'Donnell Brain Institute helps U.S. effort to study neural circuits behind learning, memory

NIH increases funding through the BRAIN Initiative

Research on student alcohol use can offer clues about interventions to reduce blackouts

Zinc can protect against oxidative stress when taken along with coffee, tea, and chocolate

Study offers hope of early detection, treatment of liver cancer

Research reveals high stability of hepatitis B viruses

Research reveals Australia's changing alcohol trends

That’s a lot of scratch: The $48,329 allergy test

Consequence-based cognitive training may be more effective, studies suggest

Stroke 'mimics' and 'chameleons' can complicate accurate diagnoses

Alcohol changes the molecular basis of memory formation

Advertising for alcohol is common in British television, study reveals

Targeting specific signaling pathway could provide new avenue for treating fetal alcohol syndrome

States explore paths to pay their share for Medicaid expansion — using political GPS

Consensus on housing policies can make affordable housing a possibility for Americans

Despite lower risk factors, black men have higher rates of recidivism

Study: 12% of frequent marijuana smokers experience cannabis withdrawal syndrome

Mapping the emotional labor and work of visual journalism

Scientists discover primary, direct target of alcohol in the brain

Sleeping Beauty technique helps identify genes responsible for NAFLD-associated liver cancer

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