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New pattern in our biological clock overturns long-held theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan mathematicians and their British colleagues say they have identified the signal that the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a finding that overturns ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers find classical musical compositions adhere to power law

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers, led by Daniel Levitin of McGill University, has found after analyzing over two thousand pieces of classical music that span four hundred years of history, that virtually ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

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Learning keeps brain healthy: study

UC Irvine neurobiologists are providing the first visual evidence that learning promotes brain health - and, therefore, that mental stimulation could limit the debilitating effects of aging on memory and the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists reveal the mystery of sudden cardiac death

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at The University of Manchester have solved a mystery connected with why people die from sudden cardiac arrest during sleep - potentially saving thousands of lives.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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'Round-the-clock' lifestyle can disrupt metabolism, brain and behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud argued that modern society was hard on human psychology, forcing people to get along in unnaturally close quarters. Now newly published resear ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

More than meets the eye to staying awake, alert

Think twice before falling asleep alongside the glare of your computer and TV screens: exposure to dim light from ordinary room lights, computer screens and other electronic devices late at night may be interfering with our ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The food-energy cellular connection revealed

Our body's activity levels fall and rise to the beat of our internal drums—the 24-hour cycles that govern fundamental physiological functions, from sleeping and feeding patterns to the energy available to our cells. Whereas ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Scientists pinpoint link between light signal and circadian rhythms

In a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the UNC School of Medicine, and his collea ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 29, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Not just bleach: Hydrogen peroxide may tell time for living cells

If a circadian rhythm is like an orchestra - the united expression of the rhythms of millions of cells - a common chemical may serve as the conductor, or at least as the baton.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Scientists unlock the 'gates' on sudden cardiac death (w/ Video)

Australian researchers have come one step closer to understanding how the rhythm of the heartbeat is controlled and why many common drugs, including some antibiotics, antihistamines and anti-psychotics, can cause a potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

To Arctic animals, time of day really doesn't matter

In the far northern reaches of the Arctic, day versus night often doesn't mean a whole lot. During parts of the year, the sun does not set; at other times, it's just the opposite. A new study reported online ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Brain rhythm predicts real-time sleep stability, may lead to more precise sleep medications

A new study finds that a brain rhythm considered the hallmark of wakefulness not only persists inconspicuously during sleep but also signifies an individual's vulnerability to disturbance by the outside world. In their report ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Warfarin: patient knows best

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Oxford-led review published last week in the Cochrane Library - that gold-standard source for the best evidence-based medical care - showed how empowering people at risk of blood clots ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Disruption of circadian rhythm could lead to diabetes

Disruption of two genes that control circadian rhythms can lead to diabetes, a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found in an animal study.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Tick tock: Rods help set internal clocks, biologist says

We run our modern lives largely by the clock, from the alarms that startle us out of our slumbers and herald each new workday to the watches and clocks that remind us when it's time for meals, after-school pick-up and the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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