Floaters are typically harmless and result from natural, age-related changes in the eye. Reframing thoughts and reducing focus on floaters can help break the anxiety feedback loop. Have you ever noticed tiny, squiggly shapes drifting across your field of vision? For most people, these shadowy fi...
Insulin and many oral diabetes drugs may cause patients to gain weight, worsen lipid profiles, and put them at risk for hypoglycemia, a potential trigger of accidents, falls and even seizures. While the HbA1c improves with aggressive blood sugar control, unforeseen medication side effects negate ...
The only experience I have had with “nurses eating their young,” is with overconfident new grads who think they know everything, when in fact they have very little experience. Being an expert nurse comes with experience. There is so much to learn post graduation. I think to avoid getting...
Popping a stye can open the area,causing a wound or injury to the eyelid. This can lead to several complications: It might spread the bacterial infection to other parts of your eyelid or to your eyes. It may worsen the infection inside the stye and cause it to get worse. Can you pop ...
But if those predictions don't match what happens, your brain does notice. David Schneider, an associate professor of neuroscience at New York University who studies acoustic self-awareness, shared an example with Live Science. "When you shut a car door, you expect to hear a predictable '...
Antidepressants May Worsen Dementia, Study Shows Neuroscientists find dementia patients on antidepressants show faster decline. Dementia 7 Min Read What Effect Does Alzheimer’s Disease Have on Writing? Agraphia is very common in Alzheimer's disease but is of limited diagnostic value. ...
One of the things I've been told is that because 24 fps is just over most people's threshold for persistence of vision, the brain has to work a little harder to fill in the gaps than it does at 30, 48, 60fps, etc. So it helps trigger the imaging/imagination part o...
Critics think their environmental benefits are overstated and argue that, by taking land that would otherwise be used for growing food, they could severely worsen poverty and hunger in developing countries. Let's take a closer look at how biofuels work and consider some of the pros and cons....
5. Increasing the number of seg- ments starting from 4, the accuracy is expected to improve first (since more gradients become available for feature re- finement) and then worsen (since the monitor and camera cannot resolve the pattern anymore). Both plots follow...
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris traded barbs about the country’s most immediate national security challenges, as each candidate has tried to paint the other as a weak leader that would see tensions in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine worsen under their watch. T...