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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Healthy people perceive their bodies to be wider than they really are, especially when in a bad mood. This appears to be a milder form of the same distortion experienced by people with eating disorders.

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The world's largest arthropod was a car-sized millipede

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No mountain high enough: study finds plastic in ‘clean’ air

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Autistic boy will graduate High School at 12 and go onto college to become a pediatric neurologist. I believe this kids will be a major asset to the neuroscience community.

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How a future U.S. president helped avert nuclear disaster near Canada's capital

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Shrub expansion preceded megafauna extinction at the end of the last ice age - Researchers clarify the timeline of ancient vegetation changes and extinctions, with implications for combating climate change today.

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Ohio’s Vax-A-Million initiative increases the vaccinated share of state population by 1.5%, costing 68 USD per person persuaded to vaccinate. This causes significant reductions in Covid-19, preventing at least one infection for every six vaccinations that the lottery had successfully encouraged.

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New study the first to demonstrate relationship between changes in the gut microbiome and epigenetic changes in the hippocampus, an area of the brain affected in Alzheimer’s, and expression of genes that trigger Alzheimer-like symptoms in mice. This type of research is not possible in people.

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The risk of autism spectrum disorder was higher in children whose mother had a vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy. The result remained the same when other factors, such as maternal age, smoking, psychopathology, substance abuse, and gestational age, were taken into consideration.

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A systematic review published in the Cochrane Library concluded that current evidence does not support using the antibiotic azithromycin for treatment of COVID‐19 outside of well‐designed randomized trials. The review is certain that risk of death of hospitalized COVID-19 patients is not reduced.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously dented the productivity and mental health of researchers, according to two studies that surveyed scientists in Europe & the United States. Women, parents of young children and people of colour are most affected by pandemic-related disruptions and need more support

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Power structures in academia and “reluctant complicit mobbing” may be inclined to support bullies thereby impacting employee performance, production, health, and wellbeing. Power structures play a significant role in academic bullying as authorities may perceive their power base to be under threat.

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The Brain Has a Special Kind of Memory for Past Infections. In a new study on mice, researchers showed for the first time that—just as the brain remembers people, places, smells, and so on—it also stores what they call “memory traces” of the body’s past infections.

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Though Ohio never formally enacted a so-called "heartbeat bill" banning abortions, legal actions appear to have fueled beliefs that abortion is illegal in the state. One in 10 Ohio women thought abortion illegal amid attempts to ban at 6 weeks.

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