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EurekAlert! – Breaking News- New study shows how ketamine combats depressionThe anaesthetic drug ketamine has been shown, in low doses, to have a rapid effect on difficult-to-treat depression. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet now report that they have identified a key target for the drug: specific serotonin receptors in the brain. Their findings, which are published in Translational Psychiatry, give hope of new, effective antidepressants.
- Extended parenting helps young birds grow smarterThe current study analyzes social and life-history data from several thousand songbirds, including 127 corvids, the family that includes jays, crows, ravens, and magpies. Results show that corvids are unusual in having larger brains and 'extended childhoods,' where parents provide the young with a safe haven to learn and practice skills they need to survive […]
- ASCO 2020: UK-first study shows feasibility of genetic screening for prostate cancerGenetic screening for prostate cancer in GP surgeries could be effective at picking up otherwise undiagnosed cases of the disease, a new pilot study shows.
- Impact of children's loneliness today could manifest in depression for years to comeA rapid review into the mental health impacts of loneliness on children and young people concludes that there could be a spike in demand for mental health services in the years to come.
- The fight goes on: Clinical trial shows promising new treatment for rare blood cancerAlthough lymphoma is one of the most common types of blood cancer, it has a rare subtype for which no effective treatment regimens are known. For the first time, Nagoya University researchers and colleagues in Japan have conducted clinical trials for a new treatment protocol and report it to be quite promising.
- New study shows how ketamine combats depression
- EurekAlert! – Policy and Ethics
- Towards a climate neutral Europe: The land sector is key(CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change) Land use choices can have a significant impact on climate change mitigation and help meet the increased ambition foreseen by the 'European Green Deal'. It is time to step up efforts to quantify the land sector's carbon emissions and removals. A study, which includes the CMCC Foundation's […]
- Study: Integrating satellite and socioeconomic data to improve climate change policy(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Bangladesh is on track to lose all of its forestland in the next 35-40 years, leading to a rise in CO2 emissions and subsequent climate change, researchers said. However, that is just one of the significant land-use changes that the country is experiencing. A new study uses satellite […]
- Better prepared for future crises(Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS)) Although there were early warnings of an exponentially growing pandemic, most policymakers around the world were unprepared and reluctant to act when Covid-19 first spread from China around the world. In an article published in the Journal of Risk Research, Aengus Collins, Marie-Valentine Florin (both EPFL International Risk […]
- Paid sick leave mandates hold promise in containing COVID-19(Georgia State University) Paid sick leave (PSL) mandates like those found in the federal government's Families First Coronavirus Response Act may be helping to slow the spread of COVID-19, according to a new study by health economists at Georgia State and Tulane universities.
- When COVID-19 meets flu season(Northwestern University) As if the COVID-19 pandemic isn't scary enough, the flu season is not far away. How severe will the flu season be as it converges with the COVID-19 outbreak? What can we do to prepare? Dr. Benjamin Singer, a Northwestern Medicine pulmonologist who treats COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit, outlines the […]
- Towards a climate neutral Europe: The land sector is key
- EurekAlert! – Social and Behavioral Science
- New study shows how ketamine combats depression(Karolinska Institutet) The anaesthetic drug ketamine has been shown, in low doses, to have a rapid effect on difficult-to-treat depression. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet now report that they have identified a key target for the drug: specific serotonin receptors in the brain. Their findings, which are published in Translational Psychiatry, give hope of new, effective […]
- Extended parenting helps young birds grow smarter(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) The current study analyzes social and life-history data from several thousand songbirds, including 127 corvids, the family that includes jays, crows, ravens, and magpies. Results show that corvids are unusual in having larger brains and 'extended childhoods,' where parents provide the young with a safe haven […]
- Impact of children's loneliness today could manifest in depression for years to come(University of Bath) A rapid review into the mental health impacts of loneliness on children and young people concludes that there could be a spike in demand for mental health services in the years to come.
- Nanoparticles can make home refrigeration more accessible for low-income households(University of Johannesburg) Power consumption of a home refrigerator can be cut by 29% while improving cooling capacity. Researchers replaced environmentally-unfriendly R134a refrigerant with the more energy-efficient R600a. They dosed R600a with multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) nanoparticles. Drop-in refrigerant replacement in the field by trained technicians is possible, says an engineer from the University of […]
- Study: Integrating satellite and socioeconomic data to improve climate change policy(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Bangladesh is on track to lose all of its forestland in the next 35-40 years, leading to a rise in CO2 emissions and subsequent climate change, researchers said. However, that is just one of the significant land-use changes that the country is experiencing. A new study uses satellite […]
- Anesthesia's effect on consciousness solved, settling century-old scientific debate(Scripps Research Institute) How does general anesthesia cause loss of consciousness? Despite its 175-year-history of use by the U.S. medical system, science has been unable to definitively answer that question, until now. The lipid-based answer could open other brain mysteries.
- DFG to fund three Collaborative Research Centres at TU Dresden(Technische Universität Dresden) The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding three Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) at TU Dresden with a total of around 29 million euros over the next four years. There will be two new CRCs in the research areas carbon concrete and 2D materials. One CRC in the field of psychology is being […]
- University of Washington launches online training for contact tracing to fight COVID-19(University of Washington) To provide training for the expanding workforce of contact tracers, the University of Washington's Northwest Center for Public Health Practice created the free, online course Every Contact Counts to support public health agencies -- including smaller, rural public health districts and tribal health departments -- to help their existing and growing workforce […]
- Heightened interaction between neolithic migrants and hunter-gatherers in Western Europe(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) This study reports new genome-wide data for 101 prehistoric individuals from 12 archaeological sites in today's France and Germany, dating from 7000-3000 BCE, and documents levels of admixture between expanding early Neolithic farmers and local hunter-gatherers seen nowhere else in Europe.
- Government's stimulus program to boost consumer spending(Hiroshima University) The world has been experiencing an unprecedented economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A significant number of economic activities have shut down. With increasing unemployment, economists are devising and proposing economic measures that could help ensure a sustainable increase in consumer spending and circumvent a long-term economic recession. However, whether the proposed […]
- New study shows how ketamine combats depression