Our Brains Learn From Mistakes and Can Track Performance

Our Brains Learn From Mistakes and Can Track Performance

May 16, 2022 – Our ability to learn new things and adjust our approach based on failure and success can be credited to a multi-tasking group of neurons, or messenger cells in our brain, suggest the results of a series of new lab tests. The study findings, published in the journal Science, offer fresh insight … Read more

A Quest to Learn How Immune Cells Age

A Quest to Learn How Immune Cells Age

Nov. 12, 2021 — A key risk factor for severe COVID-19 is age, in part because the immune response weakens as we get older. But our understanding of this effect of age remains hazy, as the immune system is one of the most complex systems in the human body. In the hope of clearing some … Read more

What People With Psoriasis Can Learn From the Pandemic

What People With Psoriasis Can Learn From the Pandemic

For over a year we’ve all been facing an extremely stressful situation. Many conditions are exacerbated by stress, and psoriasis is no exception. In fact, it’s likely that many people were diagnosed with psoriasis for the first time during the pandemic. To make things worse, dealing with psoriasis can in turn increase stress, especially when … Read more

How to Help Your Teen Learn to Drive

How to Help Your Teen Learn to Drive

SOURCES: American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Children: “Behind the Wheel: How to Help Your Teen Become a Safe Driver.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Parents Are the Key to Safe Driving.” Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute Teen Driver Source: “Setting House Rules.” Durham Region: “Parent’s Guide to Teen Driving: The Role of Parents.” … Read more

Feeling Stressed Out? Learn How to Relax.

Feeling Stressed Out? Learn How to Relax.

SOURCES: David Shurtleff, PhD, deputy director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); acting scientific director, acting chief, Clinical Investigations Branch, Pain and Integrative Neuroscience Branch, Division of Intramural Research, Bethesda, MD. Jonathan C. Smith, professor of psychology, Roosevelt University, Chicago. Mayo Clinic: “Exercise and … Read more

Largest batch of AIIMS resident surgeons to learn basics of robotic surgery – ET HealthWorld

Largest batch of AIIMS resident surgeons to learn basics of robotic surgery – ET HealthWorld

Young surgeons at the All India Institute of Medical Science are being acquainted with Da Vinci. Not the great 15th century artist Leonardo Da Vinci but a robot made by California-based Intuitive Surgicals to assist in surgeries. In the largest such initiative so far, a group of 70 young surgeons specialising in oncology at the … Read more