medicine

American Emily describes depression as a black hole where gravity is so strong that she can barely move. She knows that the disease can kill her. Both of her parents committed suicide. Now she has joined the trial of a new experimental therapy. Electrodes were implanted into her brain. Researchers say deep brain stimulation could ultimately help the nearly three million Americans suffering from...

A decrease in daily nutrition by 30% of normal results in an increase in life expectancy by one and a half times. Employees of the French National Research Center conducted an experiment involving lemurs. Scientists reduced the daily amount of food consumed by a test group of animals by a third. The other group ate the same as before. The study lasted ten years. It involved adult animals of...