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Study provides better understanding of how OCD develops, may improve treat
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): To better understand the root of obsessive-compulsive disorder, researchers used a behavioural model. They demonstrated that when learning parameters for reinforcement and punishment are excessively unbalanced, the cycle between obsession and compulsion ca
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Researchers discover robots can be used for diagnosing mental health disor
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Cambridge [UK], September 5 (ANI): A recent study revealed that robots may be more effective than parent-reported or self-reported tests in diagnosing mental health disorders in youngsters.
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Researchers: Potential treatment for binge eating disorder is deep brain s
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): A small device that detects food craving-related brain activity in a key brain region, and responds by electrically stimulating that region, has shown promise in a pilot clinical trial in two patients with loss-of-control binge eating disorder (BED), accor
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Researchers discover how artificial intelligence can be trained to detect
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Bochum [Germany], September 4 (ANI): Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to detect whether or not a tissue picture contains a tumour. However, until recently, it has remained a mystery as to how it makes its judgement. A team from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum's Research Center for Protei
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Researchers discover new method of generating nanodiamonds out of plastic
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): What happens within planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Rostock, and France's Ecole Polytechnique conducted an innovative experiment. They used intense la
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Researchers find motion of DNA helps to repair damage in the human nucleus
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 4 (ANI): The movement of chromatin, the substance from which DNA is formed, can aid in the efficient repair of DNA damage in the human nucleus, according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Indiana University. This result may improve cancer detect
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Water fluoridation prevents tooth decay: Research
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): Water fluoridation has a lower environmental impact than other preventive methods for tooth decay, according to researchers. The study's findings also enhance the case for water fluoridation programmes to minimise dental decay, particularly in the most vul
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Nitric oxide 'scavengers' are used to treat triple-negative breast cancer:
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): A potential novel therapeutic strategy for treating triple-negative breast cancer is being investigated by researchers. In Professor Abhay Pandit's lab, CRAM doctoral candidate Amir Abdo Alsharabasy is developing nitric oxide scavengers as part of a novel
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Researchers identify brain region responsible for effortful altruistic beh
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Birmingham [UK], September 3 (ANI): A region of the brain uniquely involved in exerting effort to aid others has recently been identified by investigators from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford.
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Researchers suggest more effective way for automatic speech recognition
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 2 (ANI): Popular voice assistants such as Siri and Amazon Alexa have made automated speech recognition (ASR) available to the general public. Despite decades of development, ASR models suffer with consistency and dependability, particularly in noisy situations. Chi
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Study: People's appreciation of nature was reignited by COVID-19
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Connecticut [US], September 2 (ANI): Many of the effects of the pandemic on our lives will undoubtedly continue for years to come. Our perspective of nature has changed, according to UConn researchers, even as the impact of these changes may last for quite some time. Nature Scientific Report
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Cannabis legalisation reduces stock market value of big pharmaceutical com
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 2 (ANI): Researchers from California Polytechnic State University and The University of New Mexico discovered that stock market investors believe cannabis legalisation will cut conventional pharmaceutical sales by billions of dollars.
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