Health & Medicine
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- Health & Medicine
Neighborhood linked to obesity
Children living in areas that lack walking-distance parks and supermarkets are more prone to put on weight, new studies find.
- Health & Medicine
Attention tunes the mind’s ear
Brain activity shows how one voice pattern stands out from the crowd.
- Life
Daytime anesthesia gives bees jet lag
Honeybees, as stand-ins for surgery patients, show drug’s aftereffects as biorhythms get out sync.
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Movie clips help ease drug craving
Images of heroin may prove useful in treating addiction.
- Health & Medicine
Why emotions are attention-getters
Strong, direct connections between two key brain centers help explain how feelings can usurp focus.
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Autism linked to obesity in pregnancy
Association may spark research into a possible biological mechanism.
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- Health & Medicine
Extreme eaters show abnormal brain activity
Seeing images of food revs up reward areas in the obese and slows them down in severely underweight people, a brain scan study shows.
- Life
Stem cell treatment spurs cartilage growth
A small molecule called kartogenin prompts the manufacture of lost connective tissue in mice.
- Psychology
Autism rates rise again
Related developmental disorders affect 1.1 percent of U.S. 8-year-olds.
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Jolt to brain aids language recovery
Stroke patients treated with brain stimulation show improvement in language skills.
