New research suggests that newborns who sleep longer and wake up less throughout the night are less likely to be overweight in infancy. «While an association between insufficient sleep and weight gain is well-established in adults and older children, this link has not been previously recognized in infants,» said study co-author Susan Redline, MD, MPH,…

A new study identifies specific locations where medication and harm reduction services for people with opioid use disorder should be available in order to have the greatest impact on reducing opioid overdose deaths. The data show that more than half of those who died of an opioid overdose in Massachusetts encountered the health care, public…

Scientists say some myelin-damaging disorders have a distinctive pathology that groups them into a unique disease entity. Multiple sclerosis is a well-known demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, but is not the only one by far. In inflammatory demyelinating diseases,?targeted myelin sheaths — the protective layers surrounding nerve fibres in the central nervous system…

A recent study has found that to best help kids with autism maintain healthy rates of physical activity, interventions should be targeted during the ages of 9 to 13, as that’s when kids show the biggest drop in active time. The study is one of the first to look at this issue on a longitudinal…

A new study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the brain activity of 51 male-female romantic couples as they experienced intimate partner aggression in real time. They found that aggression toward intimate partners was associated with aberrant activity in the brain’s medial prefrontal cortex, or MPFC, which has many functions, but among them is…

A team has examined the effects of kratom and the potential impacts on people with alcohol use disorder. Substance use disorders are a major health concern in the U.S. and a growing number of people suffering from these diseases are self-medicating with kratom to help break a cycle of dependence. After tobacco, the most commonly…

Patients with both a high lipoprotein(a) and high coronary artery calcium score (CAC) face a more than 20% risk of heart attack or stroke over the following 10 years, according to findings from a multicenter study led by preventive cardiologists. «We are hopeful that by making the connection between Lp(a) and CAC as dual risk…

A new national survey, looking at how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted young U.S. adults’ loneliness, reveals ‘significant depressive symptoms’ in 80 percent of participants. Over 1,000 Americans aged 18-35 took part in the online anonymous questionnaire, which also asked the subjects to report on their anxiety and substance use. The analysed findings, published in…

A study has established a new resource for exploring and understanding Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on an individualized level. «We are finding that different genetic backgrounds in humans generate different profiles of A? and tau» said Tracy Young-Pearse, PhD, of the Brigham’s Division of Neurology. «Those stem cell derived neuronal profiles have a predictive nature, in…

The behavior of immune cells in the blood is so different in patients with Parkinson’s disease that it advocate for a new type of supplementary medicine, which can regulate the immune system and thus inhibit the deterioration of the brain. These are the perspectives in a new study which researchers from the Department of Biomedicine…