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A trial adding the drug lumateperone to a faltering antidepressant improved patients’ sexual function, but most of that improvement traced back to eased depression symptoms rather than any direct effect on desire, arousal or orgasm.
Thirteen attempted out-of-body sessions in Brazil produced no correspondence between what volunteers described and a hidden target, but two of them accurately described researchers working behind a closed, unseen door.
A statistical framework called PGS-TRI reads DNA from a child and both parents to separate inherited autism risk from the influence of the family environment. Tested on 18,383 families, it validated existing genetic risk scores and mapped exactly where they fail.