Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
American and Italian researchers have found that boosting the amounts of a marijuana-like brain transmitter called anandamide produces antidepressant effects in test rats.
Led by Daniele Piomelli, the Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences and director of the Center for Drug Discovery at the University of California, Irvine, the researchers used ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the February 2008 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
"In our study, socializing was just as effective as more traditional ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified a new gene responsible for a rare, inherited form of sudden cardiac arrest, known as Brugada syndrome. With the identification of this new gene, the researchers hope this will shed light on the more common forms of sudden death ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
A radical light-activated cancer therapy that destroys tumours while leaving healthy tissues untouched has been demonstrated for the first time by a team of British scientists. The treatment, which has been developed over the past 11 years, was used to cure ovarian tumours in mice, though in principle it could ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Jennifer Sieck knew something had to be done when she would lie in bed most of the day and night. “It would be a big deal and everyone would get excited if I’d come down to the living room and could sit there for 10 or 20 minutes,” the 38 ...
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