Researchers report that if you are generally positive about life and inspires others too to lead a happy life, chances are that you harbor a special set of brain connections not found in people with negative thoughts. The paper appeared in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
A new study says that the work and achievements of men tend to be evaluated as more creative than similar work and achievements produced by women. The study was published in the journal Psychological Science.
Researchers from Georgia State University reports that monkeys perceive visual illusions in the same way as apes and humans see them in their daily life. The findings were published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
Researchers have found that having suicidal thoughts need not necessarily depression it could be obstructive sleep apnea, (OSA), which is a common sleep disorder. The findings appeared in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
New research by scientists at UBC and BC Children’s Hospital finds that infants can be protected from getting asthma if they acquire four types of gut bacteria by three months of age. More than 300 families from across Canada participated in this research through the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study.
Researchers from Stockholm University, in international collaboration with UK and Japan, has reached a breakthrough in understanding how fructose is transported into our cells. This could be a potential benefit for the development of novel treatments against some forms of cancer, obesity and diabetes. The results are published as an article in the scientific journal Nature.
WHO cautioned that "indiscriminate" use of antibiotics is increasingly leading to resistance to medicines and treatment failure even as it asked India and South East Asian nations to "urgently" address this threat to public health.
Short and high intensity exercise can reduce an adolescent's risk of developing a heart condition, revealed a new study by researcher Alan Barker and his University of Exeter team. The researchers observed that performing eight to ten minutes of high intensity interval exercise thrice a week can improve important markers of cardiovascular health. The study is published in the Journal American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
The world's largest catalogue of genomic differences among humans, has been created by an international team of scientists. This catalogue would provide researchers with powerful clues to help them establish why some people are susceptible to various diseases. The findings were detailed in two studies that appeared online in the Nature.
A new study from the University of California, Berkeley has found an association between sleep and body mass index. Teenagers and adults who go to bed late on weeknights are more likely to gain weight than their peers who hit the bed earlier. Moreover, exercise, screen time, and the number of hours they slept did not mitigate this BMI increase, according to the study published in the October issue of the journal, Sleep.
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