Trends in Medical Research
June 28, 2024
Bennett Lange, Luke Morgan, Christopher Mattox et al.
Many medicines and treatments for varying levels of ailments were found through natural bioactives before complex separation techniques were available.Ironically, as medicine advances, drastically more people seem to be reverting to a desire for these natural bioactives.Due to this, it is important to discover and research the pharmacology of historically used plants and how exactly they can...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
March 1, 2023
Su Hu, Zeqi Hao, Meng-Ting Li et al.
Migraine—a disabling neurological disorder, imposes a tremendous burden on societies. To reduce the economic and health toll of the disease, insight into its pathophysiological mechanism is key to improving treatment and prevention. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) studies suggest abnormal functional connectivity (FC) within the default mode network (DMN) in...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2023
Mengqi Zhao, Zeqi Hao, Mengting Li et al.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a brain-gut disorder with high global prevalence, resulting from abnormalities in brain connectivity of the default mode network and aberrant changes in gray matter (GM). However, the findings of previous studies about IBS were divergent. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis to identify common functional and structural alterations in IBS patients....
Journal of Food Nutrition and Metabolism
October 13, 2022
Muralikrishnan Dhanasekaran, Rishi M. Nadar, Kelli L McDonald et al.
3 citations
The chronological events associated with cannabis utilization are viewed perceptively as matters/issues that happened from the period “before Christ” (BC) or “anno domini” (AD, “in the year of our Lord”) to the present time. Cannabis is one of the oldest natural products known to humanity worldwide and has been used by various civilizations, cultures, and religions before the birth of Christ....
Science China Life Sciences
October 1, 2011
Jun Ren, ZhiHui Huang, Jing Luo et al.
83 citations
Although previous studies have shown that sleep can inspire insight, it is still unclear whether meditation can promote insight. Meditation differs from other types of passive rest such as relaxation and sleep because it requires full consciousness and mindfulness of targets such as one's breathing. Forty-eight university students without meditation experience were recruited to learn a simple...