Articles By Mary Pascaline Dharshini
- Researchers found that the brain’s lateral orbitofrontal cortex is affected by depression hence giving patients a sense of loss and disappointment associated with not receiving rewards.
- Genetic influences play a greater role than parenting styles when it comes to food-fussiness in toddlers, researchers found.
- Studies have shown that good social behavior is essential for a smooth transition to school and children with good executive function skills are more likely to be successful in school.
- Researchers found that patients with glaucoma have poor blood flow when compared with people who don’t have glaucoma.
- Researchers said methamphetamine and exercise target those reward centers in the brain that are also involved in the maintenance of the circadian rhythms.
- The drug alemtuzumab can cause serious side effects and is commonly used to treat patients who didn't respond well to other drugs.
- “People who have had a kidney stone seem to have a heightened risk of gallstones — and vice versa,” Juan Omana, a general surgeon at Florida Hospital, said.
- The diet alternates between high-carb days and low-carb days, promising to help with weight loss while ensuring that your body gets the macronutrients it needs.
- The Atkins diet is a low-carbohydrate diet recommended for weight loss, which was first promoted by Robert C. Atkins, a cardiologist who wrote a best-selling book on the diet in 1972.
- Chikungunya shares similarities with dengue and can often be misdiagnosed.
- A study found that the coordinated activity of two regions of the adolescent brain grants teenagers the ability to learn from the outcomes of their reward-seeking behavior.
- The study by researchers from UMC Utrecht is the first to directly measure DNA errors in human stem cells from different organs and from people belonging to different age groups.