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(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250318141352.htm) A rubber hand alleviates pain
Mar 18th 2025, 14:13

If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help patients who suffer from chronic pain: Researchers have shown that pain caused by heat is experienced as less severe thanks to the rubber hand illusion.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250318141021.htm) Mastery of language could predict longevity
Mar 18th 2025, 14:10

A recent study has linked longevity specifically to verbal fluency, the measure of one's vocabulary and ability to use it.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250318140901.htm) When did human language emerge?
Mar 18th 2025, 14:09

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250317164055.htm) Attention can be used to drive cooperation
Mar 17th 2025, 16:40

Our ability to cooperate with others may be influenced by how our attention is captured and directed, as much as by how altruistic we are feeling, according to a new study.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250317164050.htm) Bridging Nature and Nurture: Study reveals brain's flexible foundation from birth
Mar 17th 2025, 16:40

By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized visual brains.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250317163744.htm) Global warming can lead to inflammation in human airways, new research shows
Mar 17th 2025, 16:37

In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when exposed to dry air, an occurrence expected to increase due to global warming. Inflammation in human airways is associated with such conditions as asthma, allergic rhinitis and chronic cough.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250317163737.htm) New AI model analyzes full night of sleep with high accuracy in largest study of its kind
Mar 17th 2025, 16:37

Researchers have developed a powerful AI tool, built on the same transformer architecture used by large language models like ChatGPT, to process an entire night's sleep. To date, it is one of the largest studies, analyzing 1,011,192 hours of sleep. The model, called patch foundational transformer for sleep (PFTSleep), analyzes brain waves, muscle activity, heart rate, and breathing patterns to classify sleep stages more effectively than traditional methods, streamlining sleep analysis, reducing variability, and supporting future clinical tools to detect sleep disorders and other health risks.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250317163627.htm) Inflammatory messenger fuels Alzheimer's
Mar 17th 2025, 16:36

Researchers have detailed the precise mechanism through which the inflammatory signaling molecule IL-12 contributes to Alzheimer's disease.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250317163409.htm) How childhood adversity shapes brain and behavior
Mar 17th 2025, 16:34

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review of research in this domain, scholars illuminate the profound impacts of these adverse childhood experiences on brain development and introduce new paths for understanding and tackling them.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250312134620.htm) Dopamine signals in primate brains
Mar 12th 2025, 13:46

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and catching a whiff of something delectable. Behind this mechanism is dopamine released within the striatum, the largest structure of the subcortical basal ganglia, which links motor movements and motivation. Yet it has remained unclear exactly what kind of dopamine signal is transmitted to the striatum to cause this behavior in primates. In order to understand this dopamine signal, a team of researchers developed a new method of monitoring dopamine, utilizing a fluorescent dopamine sensor.

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Michael Reeder LCPC
Baltimore, MD

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