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The ethics of consciousness hunting: We are letting brain-damaged patients die on a false assumption
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'A Nazi in all but name': Author argues Asperger's syndrome should be renamed
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Too good to be true? A nonaddictive opioid without lethal side effects shows promise.
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For poorer people in India and many other countries, a computer engineer has found a way to detect breast cancer without radiation
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The spectre of smallpox lingers
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Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) and Nature Therapy: A State-of-the-Art Review
Summary A study of the effect of Shinrin-Yoku or "forest bathing" (immersing oneself in nature by mindfully using all five senses) on human physiological and psychological systems. Extract In...
Summary
A study of the effect of Shinrin-Yoku or "forest bathing" (immersing oneself in nature by mindfully using all five senses) on human physiological and psychological systems.
Extract
In general, from a physiological perspective, significant empirical research findings point to a reduction in human heart rate and blood pressure and an increase in relaxation for participants exposed to natural GS. Even research involving the use of nature videos of the forest or the ocean have the same physiological effects. From a qualitative and psychological perspective, Danish participants reported a sense of safety, calm and overall general wellbeing following exposure or engagement with nature. South Korean participants with a known alcohol addiction and high pre-test scores of depression benefited more from the Forest Therapy Camp than participants with lower pre-test scores of depression and alcohol abuse. Differences in culture, gender, education, marital or economic status were not associated confounding factors in many of the empirical studies. Overall, our review of the literature, as illustrated in Table 1, points to positive health benefits associated with SY and NT while confounding factors were clearly identified by the researchers.
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Newly Found Enzymes Can Help Turn Type A and B Blood into Universal Type O
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Researcher at the center of an epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him
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Protecting Mothers and Babies — A Delicate Balancing Act
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DMT Models the Near-Death Experience
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An entirely new type of antidepressant targets postpartum depression
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How the CIA’s fake vaccination campaign endangers us all
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Psychological language on Twitter predicts county-level heart disease mortality
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Bioengineered lungs grown in a lab successfully transplanted into living pigs
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IVF at forty: Revisiting the revolution in assisted reproduction
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Two fungal species—one pathogenic, one benign—are actually the same
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Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated,’ study finds
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When you have a serious hereditary disease, who has a right to know?
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First 3D colour X-ray of a human using CERN technology
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Anti-vaxxers are targeting a vaccine for a virus deadlier than ebola
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Scientists hopeful as HIV vaccine candidate passes key test
Here's a news article about an HIV vaccine being tested on humans "in the field": Scientists hopeful as HIV vaccine candidate passes key test Here's the scientific report: Evaluation of a mosaic...
Here's a news article about an HIV vaccine being tested on humans "in the field": Scientists hopeful as HIV vaccine candidate passes key test
Here's the scientific report: Evaluation of a mosaic HIV-1 vaccine in a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1/2a clinical trial (APPROACH) and in rhesus monkeys (NHP 13-19)
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Pain control: “no evidence” cannabis improves outcomes
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Newborn screening urged for fatal neurological disorder, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
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HIV vaccine to begin human trials in 2019
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Moderate exposure to sunlight improves motor learning and long-term memory in mice
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A better way to trace neuronal pathways: Moving forward by moving backward more effectively
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Researchers create first artificial human prion
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Research shows consciousness may extend beyond clinical death
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A genetically modified organism could end malaria and save millions of lives — if we decide to use it
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How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer
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Successful treatment of a rare genetic disorder in the womb
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US FDA approves first drug designed to prevent migraines
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The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick, and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years
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The last days of the blue-blood harvest
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Exploring ethical implications of Yale experiment to reanimate dead brain cells
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