Rahim Azizian

“Anyone can become angry—that is easy,” Aristotle wrote in The Nicomachean Ethics. “But to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way— that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” 😊🙄

How Not to Use Brain Scans in Neuroscience While neuroimaging may be a standard in neuroscience research, a new study says researchers are massively underestimating how large the study sample must be for a neuroimaging study to produce reliable findings. neurosciencenews.com/neuroimaging-s…

Testosterone Promotes Cuddling, Not Just Aggression While more commonly associated with promoting aggressive behaviors, testosterone can also promote social affection and prosocial behaviors in males, a new study on gerbils finds. Source: Emory University neurosciencenews.com/testosterone-s…

Immune cells called monocytes have long been implicated in the killing of invading bacteria. However, a closer look reveals a surprising role for them: monocytes partner with a hormone to improve skin healing after bacterial infection. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Will ‘Centaurus’ be the next global coronavirus variant? Indian cases offers clues The BA.2.75 variant is rising fast in the country, but hospitalization rates are low so far. nature.com/articles/d4158…

The UK is getting a new prime minister, what will it mean for science? Candidates face calls to prioritize research as the leadership contest heats up Rishi Sunak & Liz Truss have different economic policies that could have knock-on effects for UK research nature.com/articles/d4158…

“Did the transition to complex societies in the Holocene drive a reduction in brain size? A reassessment of the DeSilva et al. (2021) hypothesis” by Brian Villmoare et al. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

No, the Human Brain Did Not Shrink 3,000 Years Ago Researchers question the widely held belief that modern humans experienced an evolutionary decrease in brain size. Source: UNLV neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brai…

Deciphering a Baby’s Cries of Pain Is Not an Innate Ability and Must Be Learned A human's ability to interpret the cries of a baby in pain isn't innate but learned from experience. Source: Cell Press neurosciencenews.com/pain-cry-learn…

Studying Schizophrenia by Emulating It in a Petri Dish Creating modular neural networks (MoMNets), #researchers generate a new way to study #schizophrenia and other disorders in a lab setting. Source: Columbia University neurosciencenews.com/momnets-schizo…

Down on Vitamin D? It Could Be the Cause of Chronic Inflammation Study reveals a direct link between vitamin D deficiency and chronic inflammation. Researchers suggest boosting vitamin D in those with a deficiency may help to reduce inflammation. neurosciencenews.com/vitamin-d-infl…

“Prenatal environmental stressors impair postnatal microglia function and adult behavior in males” by Carina Block et al. Cell Reports

Air pollution along with housing insecurity and stress during pregnancy leads to an increased risk of autism-like social behaviors and differences in neural anatomy in male mice offspring. neurosciencenews.com/pollution-stre…

Children who sleep less than 9 hours per night have significant differences in brain regions associated with memory, intelligence, and well-being compared to their peers who sleep 9 or more hours per night. Source: University of Maryland #neuroscience neurosciencenews.com/child-sleep-br…

My #health journal...sort of a companion to Being Empowered for a Healthy Heart. ☺️🌺 If you're curious: amazon.com/gp/aw/d/173260… Being Empowered for a Healthy Heart: amazon.com/dp/1732606005 #wellness #WritingCommunity #Book

My book's newish cover design. (It's a #health guide that includes a few of my own poems.) 🌷The model's name is Cowie (she's a former #feral!). 💜 **If you're curious: amazon.com/dp/1732606005 #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #poetry #CatsOfTwitter #AnimalLovers

A modified method for delivering oxygen to the whole body can restore function in pig organs one hour after the animals have died. The achievement points to ways to improve transplants and the treatment of #strokes and #heart_attacks. nature.com/articles/d4158…

"With further research, this information can help design new therapeutic compounds that prevent the spread of melanoma from one part of the body to another."

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have identified several proteins involved in the progression of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. One of the proteins – PDIA6 – was found to be particularly important for driving malignancy. news-medical.net/news/20220803/…

Procedures used in life support and to preserve organs in deceased human donors might one day need to be re-evaluated in the wake of a study that restored some cell function in pigs one hour after death. nature.com/articles/d4158…

“Prevalence, age of decision, and interpersonal warmth judgements of childfree adults” by Zachary Neal et al. Scientific Reports

Researchers say over 20% of adults do not want children and intend to remain child-free. Most adults say they decided in their teens or early twenties to remain childless. #psychology #neuroscience #science neurosciencenews.com/child-free-psy…