For more than a year, public health officials have repeatedly told us that masks save lives. They’ve warned us to keep our distance from our neighbors, who’ve morphed into disease vectors before our eyes. Now they are telling us that if we’re vaccinated, we no longer need to wear masks or physically distance ourselves in […]
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Anesthesia doesn’t simply turn off the brain, it changes its rhythms
In a uniquely deep and detailed look at how the commonly used anesthetic propofol causes unconsciousness, a collaboration of labs at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT shows that as the drug takes hold in the brain, a wide swath of regions become coordinated by very slow rhythms that maintain a commensurately […]
Why Rachel Bilson Doesn’t Want Daughter to See Ex Hayden in ‘Star Wars’
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Can’t solve a riddle? The answer might lie in knowing what doesn’t work
Ever get stuck trying to solve a puzzle? You look for a pattern, or a rule, and you just can’t spot it. So you back up and start over. That’s your brain recognizing that your current strategy isn’t working, and that you need a new way to solve the problem, according to new research from […]
Signs your sister-in-law doesn’t like you
Merging two families into one can be extremely difficult. Perhaps not in the day-to-day, but when traditions are called into question, anything could happen. And while mother-in-laws tend to get most of the negative attention, there’s another force to be reckoned with in many families — a sister-in-law. If a sister-in-law doesn’t like you, she […]
Dating Is Better During Quarantine, and It Doesn't Have to Change
Before COVID-19, Vaneet’s dating life was “pretty much non-existent.” “Asking people out IRL only led to rejection,” the 28-year-old says. “Apps were just a constant stream of being ghosted. It was exhausting, and I practically gave up dating.” While most of us have been going through unbearable dry spells and deeply missing human touch, Vaneet […]
Gen Z Doesn't Know Nearly Enough About HIV
For members of Generation Z, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s is something they maybe learned about in textbooks. Certainly the worst of the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States happened well before they were born in the late 90s and early 2000s — and a lot has changed […]
5 Reasons Good Cop/Bad Cop Parenting Doesn't Work
In your house, is one parent the disciplinarian while the other is the cheerleader? It’s important for parents to look at their own recurring habits in how they are making joint decisions, dealing with conflict, and relaying all that to their kids; are they presenting a united front? It benefits the whole family for both […]
Lack of oxygen doesn’t kill infant brain cells, as previously thought
Nearly 15 million babies are born prematurely, or before 37 weeks of pregnancy, around the world each year. When born too early, a baby’s immature respiratory center in the brain often fails to signal it to breathe, resulting in low oxygen levels, or hypoxia, in the brain. Research published in the Journal of Neuroscience shows […]
Brooke Burke Doesn't Believe in Mom Guilt: 'It's Toxic' and 'Useless'
Not having it! Brooke Burke makes time for both her family and her career — and she doesn’t feel bad about it. “I don’t do mom guilt,” the former Dancing With the Stars host, 47, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting the #HorizonConfiDANCE Back-to-School Campaign on Monday, July 22. “I think that guilt is a […]