Word Learning In Older Children And Adults: When Does Specialization Occur?
By the time you reach adulthood, you are estimated to know as many as 60,000 words. Despite this, vocabulary learning in your native language might…
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Health
Cellular Stress And Ampk Activators Including Metformin And The Anesthetic Drug Propofol Promote Restoration Of Human Consciousness
The neural mechanisms that give rise to human consciousness have been described as one of the greatest and most profound mysteries in all of modern…
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Challenges Of Being A Woman In Engineering
The topic of gender differences in career choices has received a lot of attention over the past years in Western countries. Researchers in those countries…
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Promise Of Chronotherapy For Improving Seizure Control In Epilepsy
Circadian rhythms, 24-hour internal clocks running in all cells, aid living organisms in acclimatizing their physiology and behavior to the day/night changes in light, temperature,…
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Can Childhood Experiences Alter Your DNA and Make You Prone to Illness?
It has always been thought that our DNA is set in stone from the moment we are conceived and that our risk of suffering from…
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Using Zebrafish to Study Microbiota of the Gut
An explosion of research in recent years has brought to light the multitude of ways in which the gut microbiota influences animal health and development….
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Brain Stimulation Boosts Peripheral Vision
Most of our interactions with the external world are mediated by our visual senses. Approximately 20% of the human neocortex is devoted to the processing…
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Can Nanoparticles Form An Alliance With The Central Nervous System?
Until the early 2000s, nanotechnology was only considered as a means to manipulate matter at the atomic or molecular level. Since then, there has been…
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A New Method To Study Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (ACC) is a rare form of cancer originating in secretory glands, often located in the head and neck region and commonly presented…
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The Power Of “Coping” In Diabetes Self-Management: Why Providers Should Care About Their Patient’s Ability To “Cope”
Over 29 million people in the US are estimated to have diabetes, with projections that number will increase to 642 million by the year 2040….
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Novel Immunotherapy For Brucellosis And Biomarker-Based Assessment Of Antimicrobials Could Save Animal Lives And Prevent Economic Losses
Brucellosis caused by Brucella organisms takes a heavy toll on the farm economy due to abortions and reproductive failure in farm animals like cattle, buffaloes,…
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