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Fatima Sana Shaikh spreads awareness about epilepsy disorder; check out he
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Marking the Epilepsy awareness challenge 2022, 'Dangal' actor Fatima Sana Shaikh shared her thoughts on the Epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes recurring, unprovoked seizures due to disturbed nerve cell activity living in the brain.
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Delhi air pollution: Simple dos and don'ts to stay healthy when there's sm
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The smoke in the air due to industrialization and scenarios like farm fires when merged with fog, especially in winter create smog that comes with a bundle of severe conditions in humans, and animals and has the capability to kill plants. Smog has a direct effect on the respiratory system
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Potential new treatment target for sleep apnea identified during study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Specialized channel proteins are possible therapeutic targets for sleep apnea and similar abnormally slow breathing disorders in obese people, suggest Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers who did a study on mice.
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Researchers discover enzyme inhibitor that can treat cancer
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have discovered a small molecule that controls an immune process that is crucial in the development of cancer and autoimmune disorders.
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Pathogens can hitch a ride on plastic to reach the sea: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The study, published April 26 in the journal Scientific Reports, is the first to connect microplastics in the ocean with land-based pathogens. It found that microplastics can make it easier for disease-causing pathogens to concentrate in plastic-contaminated areas of the ocean.
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Cellular housekeeping process implicated in fatal neurological disorder Hu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Huntington's disease, a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative condition, is caused by a genetic error present at birth, though its symptoms often don't begin until middle adulthood. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been trying to understand how the ageing
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Analysis of newborn hearing can forecast 12-month neurophysiological devel
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Portuguese researchers have proven that hearing assessment in early-age infants can help predict milestones and early detection of neurodevelopmental disorder markers.
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Neurophysiological development can be predicted by analyzing newborn's hea
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Hearing assessment in early-age infants can help in predicting milestones and early detection of neurodevelopmental disorder markers, suggest Portuguese researchers.
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Scientists manipulate emotions in dreams in attempt to ease nightmares
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In therapy, dreamers may be coached to rehearse positive versions of their most frequent nightmares, but in a study of such patients published in the journal Current Biology, researchers in Switzerland take this a step further. They found that also playing a sound--one associated with a posi
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Study: Crossword puzzles show greater cognitive improvement than computer
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The study found the benefits of crossword puzzles in improving memory functioning in older adults.
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Neural disruptions underlying feeding, swallowing disorders in children id
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Every time you chew, talk, yawn, or sense the zap of a toothache, cranial nerve cells are shuttling electrochemical signals to your brain. Some of these neurons detect pain, while others sense facial muscle movements or sensations in the skin.
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No effect of anxiety disorders on vaccine hesitancy
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The new study led by the University of Waterloo aimed to investigate the relationship between vaccine hesitancy, psychological factors associated with anxiety, and individuals' reasoning for and against getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
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