Research from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) implicates obesity and smoking as associated with a greater risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) while regular physical exercise appears to lower the risk of ED. The study ...

Brain disorders such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and other neurodegenerative brain ailments result from oxidative stress during metabolism. Researchers working on a mammalian brain have discovered a biomarker that may ...

A new position paper provides scientific merit for early positive relationships between children and important people in their life. Researchers believe the best way to help prepare a child’s brain to thrive is to provide ...

Over 2 million American suffer cardiac arrhythmias for which implantable heart devices are often the treatment of choice. Although the defibrillators are very effective in maintaining heart physiological function, the psychological health of implant recipients ...

Memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) appears to involve more areas of the brain than previously believed. The new discovery could aid early detection of people at risk for AD and may trigger new ...

Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine believe they have found markers for autism in the placenta. The finding could help physicians diagnose the developmental disorder at birth rather than the standard age of two ...

An occasional memory loss has long been thought to be a ‘normal’ characteristic of the aging process. The event is so common many refer to the event as a ‘senior moment’. New research suggests the ...

Hallucinations and delusions are the most obvious symptoms of schizophrenia. But such psychotic or “positive” symptoms are not necessarily the most important or disabling ones. Another set of symptoms, called “negative” symptoms, are much more ...

In the first large-scale, prospective study to examine possible links between chronic, low-dose exposure to pesticides and Parkinson's disease (PD), researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have shown that individuals reporting exposure ...

Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain. But new work at the University ...