4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (701+ words) Adults who currently smoked reported higher loneliness scores than those who did not, and their loneliness increased more over the following two years, according to an analysis of more than 50,000 people across 15 European countries presented in Barcelona. The analysis was…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (947+ words) Fewer pediatricians report burnout now than at the height of the pandemic, according to a longitudinal study published in Pediatrics, but the researchers who documented the improvement took care to say the remaining level is not reassuring. In 2021, 46.2 percent of…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (938+ words) When doctors in Warsaw asked a 59-year-old woman questions on admission, she sang religious songs back at them. She also sang spontaneously, without prompting. It was the most striking feature of a clinical picture dominated not by headache or vision…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (622+ words) Being bored is usually filed under mildly annoying. A randomized controlled trial out of Sweden suggests it does something measurable to the body: it makes pain arrive sooner. Researchers put 114 pain-free adults through a boring video, a funny one, or…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (981+ words) Depression may affect the brain in ways that go beyond mood and behavior. A new study has found evidence that the process of forming new neurons in the adult hippocampus becomes disrupted in people with major depressive disorder. Researchers analyzed…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (889+ words) A man wakes from a nap, walks up to the woman he has been married to for fifty years, and asks who she is. He can describe her face accurately. He knows what his wife looks like. He is simply…...