Month: April 2024

Rep. Boebert Has May-Turner Syndrome: What Is It?

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has announced that she underwent emergency surgery and was diagnosed with a rare condition called May-Turner syndrome.The 37-year-old Republican congresswoman was admitted to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado, after… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute […]

Published on April 3, 2024

Costco Is Now Selling Ozempic

The warehouse retailer Costco has teamed with its low-cost healthcare partner Sesame to offer access to prescription GLP-1 weight loss drugs. According to CNN, U.S. members will pay $179 for the new three-month weight loss assistance program launched Tuesday. The… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder […]

Published on April 3, 2024

Arousal and performance: revisiting the famous inverted-U-shaped curve

Arousal level is thought to be a key determinant of variability in cognitive performance. In a recent study, Beerendonk, Mejías et al. show that peak performance in decision-making tasks is reached at moderate levels of arousal. They also propose a neurobiologically informed computational model that can explain the inverted-U-shaped relationship. Read Full Article (External Site) […]

Published on April 3, 2024