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Anchor lead: What’s the most likely scenario for a pandemic? Elizabeth Tracey reports This year marks the 100 year anniversary of a sobering event – the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed millions of people worldwide. Now many experts are sounding …
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Anchor lead: A disturbing condition called acute flaccid myelytis is now in 22 states in the US, Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute flaccid myelitis is a condition that follows what seems to be a garden variety upper respiratory infection, causing muscle …
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Anchor lead: Can a finding in gambling monkeys help people control risk taking behavior? Elizabeth Tracey reports A specific brain area has been shown to impact a trained monkey’s risk-taking choices, a Johns Hopkins study reveals. Veit Stuphorn, a neuroscientist …
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Anchor lead: A new study in monkeys helps understand risk taking behavior, Elizabeth Tracey reports Training monkeys to gamble has identified a new brain region involved in the actual process of choosing to take risks, researchers at Johns Hopkins have …
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Anchor lead: Can delivering stimulation across the skull help depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Depression can be very hard to treat. Now a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS appears to hold some promise. Kyrana Tsapkini, a researcher at Johns …
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Anchor lead: Should you use a transcranial stimulation machine on your own? Elizabeth Tracey reports Transcranial direct stimulation or TDCS delivers a small electrical current across the skull to the brain, and new research by Kyrana Tsapkini and colleagues at …
