Observing recent shootings such as the tragic events of Isla Vista at the University of California, Santa Barbara this past Spring, researchers and lawmakers alike have begun looking into limitations on the right to bear arms. But with media influencing the public perception of gun-violence in the United States, and pro-gun lobbyists defending the second amendment and their Constitutional rights, lawmakers are forced to question the role that mental illness plays in these mass killings.
As bodies continue to line the streets of countries in Africa’s western provinces, nations worldwide have begun to express their own concerns for the containment, treatment and possible ramifications of the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
Dads, in particular, let conflict adversely impact relationships with children, while moms compartmentalize marital conflict after first day.
In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have discovered ways of altering an animal’s cognitive memories and subsequent interactions by erasing and reactivating memories in rats. Using genetically modified rats who are particularly sensitive to light, researchers were able to use optical pulses known to weaken and strengthen synapse connections in order to make a negative memory vanish, and just as suddenly reappear.
Looking into the power of words and the psychological effects of disparaging comments, a joint research team at the Universities of California, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles recently found that being called “fat” in adolescence can likely manifest in obesity nearly a decade later.
Looking to lower the cost of pharmaceuticals and help make cholesterol medication affordable for commercial manufacturing, a small team of interdisciplinary researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles discovered that mutations of an enzyme found in soil could efficiently solve a problem faced by the pharmaceutical industry.
