Author name: Payal Gupta

Study Shows That Sustainable Diets in High-income Countries Cut Down Food Costs

A study by Oxford University revealed that going flexitarian, vegetarian, or vegan in countries such as Australia, the U.K, the U.S, and Western Europe could reduce your food spending by a third. The researchers used food prices from the International Comparison Program from the World Bank to compare the diets in 150 countries to 7 …

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Scientists Find Therapy to Treat People With Severe Spinal Cord Injury

Researchers from Northwestern University have developed an injectable therapy that repairs tissue and reverses paralysis due to serious spinal cord injury using dancing molecules. How scientists conducted the experiment  The researchers who carried the study out on paralyzed mice injected a single dose of the medication to tissues around the spinal cord. They were able …

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Scientists Develop Treatment and Vaccine for Alzheimer’s Disease

Scientists from Germany and the U.K might have found a way to treat and develop Alzheimer’s disease. The team of researchers tested the protein-based vaccine and antibody-based treatment on mouse models. The medications reduced Alzheimer’s Disease symptoms. Scientists did not target plaques on the brain The hallmark for Alzheimer’s Disease is the amyloid-beta protein plaques. …

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Researchers Use the Virtual-reality World to Understand How Anxiety Affects the Brain

Researchers created a simulation in a virtual reality world to test the effect of anxiety on the brain, and now different parts of the brain cooperate to shape behavior. According to a study author and assistant professor at the Del Monte Institute of Neuroscience, University of Rochester Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Ph.D., the results showed that there …

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Study Tests How The Brain Encodes Angular Head Motion During the Day or Night

Researchers at the UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Center conducted a survey to test how cells in the retrosplenial cortex of the brain encode the angular motion of the head for navigation during the day or night. According to a study co-author and Associate Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Center, Troy Margrie, while you sit in a …

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Study Shows That Mirtazapine Is Not an Effective Treatment For Dementia Patients

A study titled Study of Mirtazapine for Agitated Behaviours in Dementia (SYMBAD): a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial has found that mirtazapine, which is commonly used to treat dementia, is not effective. The drug only has a placebo effect and could increase mortality. The researchers from the University of Plymouth who carried out the study found …

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Scientists Find Neuronal Circuitry that Controls Pain-induced Anhedonia

A branch of the National Institutes of Health, the National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA), funded a study discovering neuronal circuitry in a rodent brain that controls anhedonia caused by pain. Anhedonia is a lowered motivation to participate in behavior that is driven by rewards. The researchers involved in the study were successful in changing …

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New Research Reveals That Vikings Crossed The Atlantic To the Americas in 1021

According to a new study, Vikings traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in their longships and landed in Canada in early 1021, the first precise date of Europeans in the Americas. Artifacts show evidence of Vikings in Canada The researchers looked at wooden artifacts from a previously updated Viking encampment in Newfoundland, which are the oldest …

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New Study Shows that Visual Perception In Children continues Developing up to 10 years

It is often assumed that by the age of 6–7, children’s visual perception has essentially caught up to that of adults. However, according to a new study, children’s visual perception growth does not cease before the age of ten. The study was published on September 27, 2021, in Child Development and was carried by Dr. …

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Here Are Five Unsecured Credit Card with Limits of $1000 You Should Check Out

For those whose credit profile is not that great, finding an unsecured credit card with a limit of $1000 can be challenging. This guide looks at credit cards with high limits for those with bad credit profiles. Consider them if you cannot qualify for cards that offer rewards for purchases, signup bonuses, balance transfer promotions, …

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