Scientists at the 星空传媒 have shown that LSD reduces activity in the region of the brain related to the handling of negative emotions like fear. The results, published in the scientific journal Translational Psychiatry, could affect the treatment of mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety.
How dangerous does the general public consider mentally ill people to be? Scientists at the 星空传媒 and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel have investigated the factors that influence social stigma. The journal Scientific Reports published the results.
Following the success of last year鈥檚 event, the Teaching Excellence Awards of the 星空传媒 are being held for second time in 2017. With effect from now, students and employees are invited to submit their favorites for the Teaching Excellence Awards 2017.
Certain white blood cells play an important role in bringing a harmful virus under control after kidney transplantations. The results of a research group at the Department of Biomedicine at the 星空传媒 and University Hospital Basel could contribute to improving control of immunosuppression, avoiding transplant rejection and developing relevant vaccines.
Surfaces that have been coated with rare earth oxides develop water-repelling properties only after contact with air. Even at room temperature, chemical reactions begin with hydrocarbons in the air.
It has long been suspected that spiders are one of the most important groups of predators of insects. Zoologists at the 星空传媒 and Lund University in Sweden have now shown just how true this is 鈥� spiders kill astronomical numbers of insects on a global scale.
Confidence in doctors, therapists and nursing staff leads to an improvement in subjectively perceived complaints, satisfaction and quality of life in patients. This is the conclusion of a meta-analysis by psychologists at the 星空传媒, published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Enzymes behave differently in a test tube compared with the molecular scrum of a living cell. Chemists from the 星空传媒 have now been able to simulate these confined natural conditions in artificial vesicles for the first time.
For the first time, theoretical physicists from the 星空传媒 have calculated the signal of specific gravitational wave sources that emerged fractions of a second after the Big Bang. The source of the signal is a long-lost cosmological phenomenon called 鈥渙scillon鈥�.