Stress and cigarette smoking seem to go hand-in-hand with each other as many people, especially women, report smoking to relieve stress. The perinatal period (including…
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Growth mindsets have become quite a popular topic, and for a good reason. Today we have an enormous amount of empirical evidence to support the…
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Last week represented the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. In the wake of this tragedy, the…
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder indicated by difficulties in social interactions and communication, both verbally and non-verbally, as well as the presence…
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It is known that fetuses blink spontaneously in the womb (e.g. Petrikovsky et al 2003) and that eye-blink rate is related to the age of…
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Colorectal cancer is considered to be one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and it also has one of the highest mortality rates among malignant…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) calls antibiotic resistance “one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today,” and the Centers for…
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Scientists have investigated why often only one of two identical twins suffers from multiple sclerosis, while the other twin sibling is spared. Identical twins look…
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Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are some of the greatest mysteries of human reproduction, as they affect 10% of human pregnancies. Women are not hypertensive…
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New research shows how computer-based math models can communicate with neurons to study neurodegenerative diseases. Brain diseases such as epilepsy and neurodegeneration (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease,…
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Hair loss is a common side effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cancer treatment. It not only brings psychosocial stress to the patients but also…
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