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Do You Suffer from Imposter Syndrome? Take This Quiz

Do you feel like you’re faking it through life – winging it more than others and barely hiding the chaos? Do you feel like you’ve tricked everyone into thinking that you’re a competent, intelligent person? Do you worry that you’ll be exposed someday? If so, you may be experiencing ...
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Novel CT exam reduces need for invasive artery treatment

A new study showed that a non-invasive imaging test can help identify patients with coronary artery blockage or narrowing who need a revascularization procedure.

Parkinson's Disease: New theory on the disease's origins and spread

New hypothesis paper builds on a growing scientific consensus that Parkinson's disease route to the brain starts in either the nose or the gut and proposes that environmental toxicants are the likely source.

Birds of a Feather: The Joy of Neurodivergent Friendships

Loneliness is a national epidemic, as damaging to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Among people with ADHD, the experience of loneliness is especially prevalent. In a recent survey, 80% of respondents reported feeling lonely, even in the company of others.
Though lonelines...
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Newly found genetic variant defends against Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscientists have identified a genetic mutation that fends off Alzheimer's disease in people at high risk and could lead to a new way to protect people from the disease.

More than half a million global stroke deaths may be tied to climate change

A changing climate may be linked to growing death and disability from stroke in regions around the world, according to a new study. Researchers found over three decades that non-optimal temperatures, those above or below temperatures associated with the lowest death rates, were increasingly linked t...
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Revascularization enhances quality of life for patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia

Over 200 million people around the world experience peripheral artery disease (PAD) -- a condition caused by the narrowing of the blood vessels from the heart to the lower limbs that leads to pain when walking -- and for roughly 1-in-10 this advances to chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), an a...
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“It Just Takes One Good Friend to Change the Course of a Life”

Making friends during adolescence is akin to navigating a labyrinth filled with twists, turns — and the potential for profound connections. For individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the journey toward friendship often presents its own set of unique challenges and opportunities. ...
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No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and children's risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability, says large sibling study

In the largest study to date on the subject, researchers found no evidence to support a causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD and intellectual disability in children. The findings use data from a nationwide cohort of over 2.4 million children born ...
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Cognitive decline may be detected using network analysis, according to Concordia researchers

Researchers use network analysis to study whether it can reveal the subtle changes associated with subjective cognitive decline that cannot otherwise be detected through standard test analyses. By running a statistical analysis of data merged from two large Canadian data sets, the researchers were a...
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