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Study reveals difference in boys, girls brain with binge eating disorder
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Binge eating disorder is wired in the brain from an early age. Researchers revealed neurobiology of binge eating disorder and how it differs between the sexes.
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Study finds that gut can sense the difference between real sugar and artif
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Durham (North Carolina) [US], January 17 (ANI): A new research study, led by Diego Bohorquez, an associate professor of medicine and neurobiology in the Duke University School of Medicine shed light on the cells in one's intestines that could distinguish between two sweet solutions and commu
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Study develops novel gene therapy method to help children with neurologica
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ohio [US], July 12 (ANI): Researchers recently developed a novel method of gene therapy that can help children born with a rare genetic disorder called AADC deficiency. This deficiency causes severe physical and developmental disabilities.
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Study finds brain circuit for spirituality
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 4 (ANI): Using datasets from neurosurgical patients and those with brain lesions, investigators recently mapped lesion locations associated with spiritual and religious belief to a specific human brain circuit.
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Similar circuit malfunctions exhibited by some brain disorders
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Cambridge [UK], June 30 (ANI): During a new study MIT researchers uncovered a common neural mechanism for a type of cognitive impairment seen in some people with autism and schizophrenia, though the genetic variations that produce the impairments are different for each condition.
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Abnormal response to cellular stress associated with Huntington's disease
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US] June 24 (ANI): During a new University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers found that the persistence of a marker of chronic cellular stress, previously associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia
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Researchers discover genetic cause of intellectual disabilities, neurodeve
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ontario [Canada], June 21 (ANI): During a new study, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) identified a new gene that might be linked to certain intellectual disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Study finds new gene that might increase risk of ALS
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 18 (ANI): During a recent study, researchers identified a new gene that may increase a person's risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The gene, called TP73, produces a protein to help regulate the life cycle of a cell.
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Regulating brain circuit signals might help with obesity
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 27 (ANI): Like a good story, feeding has a beginning, a middle and an end. It begins with appetite prompting the search for food, continues with eating the food and it ends when satiation hits and the consumption of food is stopped.
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Researchers develop diagnostic tool to predict individual risk of Alzheime
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Lund [Sweden], May 25 (ANI): During a recent study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden developed an algorithm that combines data from a simple blood test and brief memory tests, to predict with greater accuracy who will develop Alzheimer's disease in the future.
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Spatial memory in rats can be improved with high-intensity intermittent tr
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Tsukuba [Japan], May 17 (ANI): The findings of a recent study by the University of Tsukuba researchers show that both endurance and high-intensity intermittent training improves exercise capacity and brain function in rats.
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Research reveals how brain distinguishes speech from noise
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington (US), December 21 (ANI): During a recent study, researchers provided the first physiological evidence that a foundational center of the brain influences how sound is processed by identifying a previously unknown neural circuit.
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