Recent Stressful Events Linked With Smoking During Pregnancy
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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Postpartum Depressive Symptoms: They Don’t Always Just Go Away
Being pregnant and becoming a mother was an overwhelming experience for “Alice.” She had trouble sleeping, felt apathetic, and she was on the verge of…
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Researching Biomarkers To Identify Autism Spectrum Disorder In Utero
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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The “Weapons Effect”: Seeing Firearms Can Prime Aggressive Thoughts
“Guns not only permit violence, they can stimulate it as well. The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.”…
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Growth Mindset Plays An Important Role In Health And Fitness
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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Should There Be An Age Limit For Owning A Gun?
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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The Principle Of Optimal Biodiversity: Why Nature Needs Diversity And How It Achieves It
Biodiversity conservation is a vital task for humanity as IPBES (1, see section 3.2, pp. 196) recently stated once again. The principle of optimal biodiversity…
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Are All Clonal Crops Equally Vulnerable To Insect Pest Attacks? The Avocado File
In wild populations, most plant species exhibit high genetic diversity, which often is manifested as high chemical diversity and variation. This chemical heterogeneity is very…
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Looking Beyond Standard Model Cosmology: Making A Case For Development Of Observational Tools For Alternative Models
A typical galaxy contains billions and trillions of stars, like our closest neighbor, the Sun. In the field of Cosmology, a single galaxy is considered…
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The Eyes Have It: Fetal Reactions To Sound And Light Stimulation And Maternal Mental Health
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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Organoids Reproduce Metabolic Alterations Of Colorectal Cancer: A Good Tool To Choose The Best Drug Based On Tumor Stage
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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