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DBS improves patients' cognitive control by increasing power of brain rhythms

In a new study that could improve the therapeutic efficacy of deep-brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders such as depression, a team of scientists shows that, when DBS is applied to a specific brain region, it improves patients' cognitive control over their behavior by increasing the power of a specific low-frequency brain rhythm in their prefrontal cortex.

4 Apr 2019

New genetic information behind urogenital track anomalies uncovered

About one in every 100 babies is born with some kind of developmental anomaly in the urogenital tract. In most cases abnormalities are mild, but sometimes life-long and even life-threatening disease develops.

4 Apr 2019

UB researchers develop new method to more accurately predict tumor growth rates

University at Buffalo researchers have developed a new method to more accurately predict tumor growth rates, a crucial statistic used to schedule screenings and set dosing regimens in cancer treatment.

4 Apr 2019

Polypharmacy in old age increases risk of adverse side effects

As people get older, the more likely they are to take several different medicines on a regular basis. However, this increases the risk of adverse effects, including interactions between the various active agents.

4 Apr 2019

Bronchiectasis patients often display high sensitivity to airborne allergens

An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that patients with the lung disease bronchiectasis also often display sensitivity to airborne allergens, and has highlighted the particular role that fungi appear to play.

4 Apr 2019

Government subsidies could be key to reducing healthcare-associated infections

Healthcare-associated infections -- illnesses that people contract while being treated in a hospital or other healthcare facility -- sicken millions of people each year and cost billions of dollars in additional treatment.

4 Apr 2019

New study could improve methods for detecting congenital heart disease

A new study by biomedical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas could significantly improve methods for detecting and diagnosing congenital heart disease in infants and small children.

4 Apr 2019

Developing imaging techniques for early detection of eye and brain diseases

The eyes may be the window to the soul, but to scientists, they are also the window to the brain. In particular, the retina, a delicate light-sensing neural network with specialized cells at the back of the eyeball, is linked directly to the brain via the optic nerve and is considered by some to be part of the brain itself.

4 Apr 2019

Opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of some infectious diseases

The United States faces a converging public health crisis as the nation's opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of certain infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, heart infections, and skin and soft tissue infections.

4 Apr 2019

NIAID awards $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against lethal viruses

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded an international consortium led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore, a five-year, $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against four highly lethal viruses for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments.

4 Apr 2019

Just 20-minute contact with nature will lower stress hormone levels, study finds

Taking at least twenty minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels.

4 Apr 2019

New immune-based therapy eliminates HPV in one-third of women with cervical precancerous lesions

A potential new immune-based therapy to treat precancers in the cervix completely eliminated both the lesion and the underlying HPV infection in a third of women enrolled in a clinical trial.

4 Apr 2019

Patent-pending probiotic could help patients with gastrointestinal diseases avoid harmful biofilms

Probiotics typically aim to rebalance bacteria populations in the gut, but new research suggests they may also help break apart stubborn biofilms. Biofilms are living microbial communities--they provide a haven for microbes and are often resistant to antibiotics.

4 Apr 2019

Alterations in brain functional connectivity associated with somatic symptom disorder

Alterations in functional connectivity of the brain may help in understanding the neurobiological changes leading to somatic symptom disorder, reports a study in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society.

4 Apr 2019

Hepatitis C-infected thoracic organs can be safely transplanted, study finds

Infectious diseases experts and transplant physicians and surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital have blocked the transmission of hepatitis C from infected organ donors to recipients in need of hearts or lungs.

4 Apr 2019

NIHR funded team to establish new global health group to address smokeless tobacco use

Researchers at the University of York have shown that regulations on smokeless tobacco are still lacking, despite 181 countries agreeing to a common approach to controlling the demand and supply.

4 Apr 2019

New all-in-one immunotherapy approach kicks out hiding HIV and also kills it

In a first on the quest to cure HIV, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health scientists report today in EBioMedicine that they've developed an all-in-one immunotherapy approach that not only kicks HIV out of hiding in the immune system, but also kills it.

4 Apr 2019

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DBS improves patients' cognitive control by increasing power of brain rhythms

New genetic information behind urogenital track anomalies uncovered

UB researchers develop new method to more accurately predict tumor growth rates

Polypharmacy in old age increases risk of adverse side effects

Bronchiectasis patients often display high sensitivity to airborne allergens

Government subsidies could be key to reducing healthcare-associated infections

New study could improve methods for detecting congenital heart disease

Developing imaging techniques for early detection of eye and brain diseases

Opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of some infectious diseases

NIAID awards $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against lethal viruses

Just 20-minute contact with nature will lower stress hormone levels, study finds

New immune-based therapy eliminates HPV in one-third of women with cervical precancerous lesions

Patent-pending probiotic could help patients with gastrointestinal diseases avoid harmful biofilms

Alterations in brain functional connectivity associated with somatic symptom disorder

Hepatitis C-infected thoracic organs can be safely transplanted, study finds

NIHR funded team to establish new global health group to address smokeless tobacco use

New all-in-one immunotherapy approach kicks out hiding HIV and also kills it

Rate of HPV infection high among sexual minority men despite availability of vaccine

Researchers receive grants to study genetics of contact-lens wearers with and without MK

Drug that looks at Alzheimer’s differently ready for its first in-human testing

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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