🗞 44/2025 English Audio Edition
Skin on skin: Newborns better start to lie directly on mom's chest · Poor sleep, older brain · Cruciate ligament tears in women's football · Neurological diseases can be avoided · Our body can turn off pain
🧠 Birth, Brain, Injuries, and Pain
The collected texts present an overview of several current topics in medical and psychological research, focusing heavily on prevention and specific health challenges. Topics covered include the confirmed benefits of immediate skin-to-skin contact for newborns, the association between poor sleep and accelerated brain aging potentially mediated by inflammation, and the higher incidence of ACL tears in female soccer players due to biomechanical and physiological factors. Furthermore, the sources emphasize the urgent need for structured prevention programs in Germany to reduce the rising burden of neurological diseases, noting that many conditions like stroke and dementia are largely avoidable, and highlight research exploring the biological mechanisms by which the body resolves pain to better treat chronic conditions. Finally, an additional section notes that human intervention often degrades the performance of AI-powered systems, underscoring psychological factors where people override correct machine decisions.
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