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Sleepwalkers don’t feel pain
Sleepwalkers don’t feel pain when they’re injured while asleep. Most of them aren’t even woken by an injury and only feel pain when they wake up the morning after. A study shows that sleepwalkers were nearly 4 times more likely […]
Route-learning changes brain tissue
Carnegie Mellon University scientists discovered that learning direction can change the brain. Published in NeuroImage, Tim Keller and Marcel Just show for the first time that brief navigation training changes a person’s brain tissue and improves how that changed tissue […]
Test can diagnose pre-diabetes
A discovery by University of Hawai’i Cancer Center can diagnose pre-diabetes, allowing them to change their lifestyle to avoid the disease. The test uses a panel of markers that helps identify if a person is pre-diabetic by measuring the fatty […]
Men prefer smart women—from a distance
A new study found that men say they prefer smart women, but are intimidated or less attracted when they interact with smart women face-to-face. “We found that men preferred women who are smarter than them in psychologically distant situations. Men […]
Vitamin D improves heart health
Vitamin D supplements may improve cardiovascular health and lowers the risk of heart disease, according a study presented at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Edinburgh. Vitamin D, which is both a vitamin and a hormone, helps control levels […]
Male and female brains look similar
Gender stereotypes don’t extend to the brain. Researchers prove that male and female brains look pretty much the same. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science researchers debunked the belief that the hippocampus, a crucial part of the brain that […]
Heartbreak is literally bad for the heart
Patients who are divorced, separated or widowed had an approximately 40% greater chance of dying or developing a new functional disability after a heart surgery than married patients, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the […]
Follow your passion for a successful career
Should you pursue your passion or strive toward a secure living? A new Tel Aviv University study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that the two objectives are not mutually exclusive — in fact, each feeds the other. […]
Early life stress fries brain’s reward circuits
A study shows that adults who are abused or neglected as children are almost twice as likely to experience depression. Researchers at Duke University and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio recruited 106 adolescents, between the […]
Count your bites, drop the pounds
Counting the bites you take while you eat is the new weight loss technique. A new study from BYU health science researchers found people who counted bites over a month’s time lost roughly four pounds–just about what the CDC recommends […]
