Mouse study reveals new clues about virulence of 1918 influenza virus
...nsights, they found that the 1918 virus triggers a hyperactive immune response that may contribute to the lethality of the virus. Furthermore, their results suggest that it is the combination of all eight of the 1918 flu virus genes interacting synergistically that accounts for the exceptional virulence of this...Oops! Researchers publish new findings on the brain's response to costly mistakes
... appears to us so far that OCD patients may have a hyperactive response to making errors, with increased worry and concern about having done something wrong," he says. "We hope that this kind of research will help us get a handle on this condition and see which normal brain circuits have gone awry in people with...Studying brain activity could aid diagnosis of social phobia
...the brain called the amygdala becomes increasingly hyperactive when patients look at threatening, angry, disgusted or fearful faces. Further, they found that the increased response in the amygdala correlated with the patients' level of social phobia symptoms. The amygdala is in the limbic part of the brain, whic......ount which children already had been identified as hyperactive during the first study, and which ones were taking... the first to show that sleep problems come before hyperactive behavior, and that one predicts the other which may help bolster the sleep-behavior theory. "In res...