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Digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (dCBT-I) is effective for patients with insomnia, with the optimal treatment including a combination of medication and dCBT-I, according to a study published online April 11 in JAMA Network Open.

Spring brings with it the joy of baseball, but too much of a good thing can lead to elbow injuries in young pitchers.

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday appealed a Texas court ruling that invalidates the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 2020 of mifepristone, the first of two drugs taken during a medical abortion.

Getting care in the United States for lingering COVID-19 symptoms can be challenging, affecting long-term health and ability to work, a new study finds.

For patients with noncastrate advanced prostate cancer, docetaxel, abiraterone, enzalutamide, apalutamide, or darolutamide are each recommended as standards of care with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), and doublet therapy is inferior to triplet therapy, according to a guideline update published online April 3 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most frequently diagnosed behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorder in childhood. Children with ADHD experience difficulty with one or more of its core symptoms—inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity.

When administered correctly and under the supervision of a professional, ketamine can be a life-changing treatment for major depression. But following regulatory changes put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic that made telemedicine more accessible, the drug’s off-label, unsupervised use has skyrocketed despite limited data supporting the safety and efficacy of that practice.

Recognizing and controlling our emotions is crucial to enhance our creativity. Researchers around Dr. Radwa Khalil, a Neuroscience Researcher at Constructor University in Bremen, recently found out how our response inhibition skill facilitates the effects of negative emotions on creative thinking. The results have been published in the Creativity Research Journal this week.

In adolescents, sedentary time may increase heart size three times more than moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, a paper published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports concludes. The study was conducted in collaboration between the University of Bristol in the U.K., the University of Exeter in the U.K., and the University of Eastern Finland. The researchers explored the associations of sedentary time, light physical activity, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with cardiac structure and function.

Brain organoids are self-organizing tissue cultures grown from patient cell-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. They form tissue structures that resemble the brain in vivo in many ways. This makes brain organoids interesting for studying both normal brain development and for the development of neurological diseases. However, organoids have been poorly studied in terms of neuronal activity, as measured by electrical signals from the cells.