Neuroscientists agree that a person’s brain is constantly changing, rewiring itself and adapting to environmental stimuli. This is how humans learn new things and create memories. This adaptability and malleability is called plasticity. “Physicians have long suspected that remodeling processes…
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Using Flow Cytometry to Diagnose Primary Immunodeficiencies (PIDs)
Researchers from the University of Freiburg, Germany have developed a functional flow cytometry-based method for the diagnosis of innate primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs). The technique was applied to monocytes, the model leukocyte of the innate immune system. Image Credits: Chansom Pantip…
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Individuals with high level of schizotypal traits exhibit altered brain structural and functional connectivity
Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder involving a wide range of cognitive, emotional, and social function impairments and altered brain structure. Recent findings suggest a continuum approach: that continuous symptoms and psychiatric disorder related traits can be integrated as risk…
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