WASHINGTON — Psilocybin is safe and effective in patients with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), preliminary findings of a small pilot study show. Dr Franklin Schneier “The results suggest that psilocybin appears to be relatively safe and potentially helpful for people with BDD, and that it has a broader scope than just depression,” study investigator Franklin Schneier, MD, co-director of the […]

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Dame Kelly Holmes has spoken out about the toll that the symptoms of perimenopause are having on her. The double Olympic champion said: ‘I think perimenopause is killing me at the moment. ‘As much as I’m in denial, it definitely has had an effect on my body.’ Describing her symptoms as ‘body aches, pains, like constant pain throughout the body, feeling […]

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Vuse brand e-cigarette flavor cartridges seen for sale in 2019.The FDA has cracked down on marketing of flavored products due to high rates of use among adolescents. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration authorized three electronic cigarette products by Vuse Solo on Tuesday, citing benefits to adult smokers who are trying to quit tobacco. Why […]

Wireless wearable biosensors have been a game changer in personalized health monitoring and health care digitization because they can efficiently detect, record, and monitor medically significant biological signals. Chipless resonant antennae are highly promising components of wearable biosensors, as they are affordable and tractable. However, their practical applications are limited by low sensitivity (inability to detect small biological signals) caused […]

The dreaded tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus infects different types of brain cells in different parts of the brain, depending on whether the affected person’s immune system is activated or not. This is shown in a new study at Umeå University, Sweden. “This increased understanding of how the virus behaves in the brain and how it activates the immune system is […]

Researchers analyzed the patterns of brain activity evoked by movie scenes in people with schizophrenia. The researchers report that in the brains of individuals without schizophrenia, mental concepts are organized into semantic domains and related concepts are connected, enabling coherent thought and speech. In people with schizophrenia, these semantic networks appeared to be disrupted, resulting in incoherent speech and delusions. […]

Using a new approach for studying live embryonic mouse brains at single-cell resolution, researchers have identified an active multi-layer circuit that forms in the cortex during an unexpectedly early stage of development. Perturbing the circuit genetically led to changes similar to those seen in the brains of people with autism. The findings are reported today in Cell by a team […]

Immunotherapy, particularly CAR T-Cell treatment for cancer, is extending the lives of many patients. But sometimes the therapy randomly migrates to places it shouldn’t go, tucking into the lungs or other noncancerous tissue and causing toxic side effects. A University of Rochester/Wilmot Cancer Institute team discovered the molecule responsible for guiding T cells toward tumors, setting the stage for scientists […]