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Suicide is the act of willfully ending one's own life.
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Mar. 6, 2025 Researchers have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays signals from his brain to a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by imagining himself performing the ...
Mar. 5, 2025 Researchers have developed a compound that relieves pain in mice but doesn't affect the brain, thereby avoiding mind-altering side effects and abuse potential. The custom-designed molecule, derived from cannabis, may provide an alternative to ...
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Mar. 18, 2025 A new study has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice, following from human ...
Mar. 18, 2025 Research has tracked depressive symptoms in 7100 young people from Tokyo and London and shown girls have more depressive symptoms than boys in both ...
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Mar. 17, 2025 A new study may help to explain why there is an over-representation of women experiencing chronic pain compared to men and why pain medication may ...
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Mar. 18, 2025 Researchers discovered distinct molecular differences in how the brain processes directly experienced versus witnessed trauma -- a finding that could lead to more targeted treatments for ...
Mar. 17, 2025 By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers have identified how a balance of innate structure and ...
Mar. 17, 2025 In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at ...
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