A world-first study led by UCL researchers, published in The British Journal of Psychiatry, analyzed anonymized primary care ...

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most effective technologies to assess the innermost structures of the human ...

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects about 7 million ...

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A new study published in The BMJ suggests that prehabilitation (also called prehab) may be able to reduce complications and ...

Globally, mothers are having fewer children. Yet despite this latest observed decline in birth rates, the number of twins and ...

Maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the stress system of the offspring. The ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common inflammatory joint disorder, affecting over 60,000 people in Austria alone, with ...

Women are born with two X chromosomes and inherit one from each parent. But in every cell of their body, just one X ...

Bipolar disorder is a complex psychiatric disorder, characterized by fluctuations between episodes of (hypo)mania and ...