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The term "doomscrolling" describes the act of endlessly scrolling through bad news on social media and reading every worrisome tidbit that pops up, a habit that unfortunately seems to have become common during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the brain regions involved in choosing whether to find out if a bad event is about to happen.
Researchers at Washington University discovered that some immune cells originate in the skull and migrate to the tissues that line the brain and spinal cord without passing through the bloodstream. Those immune cells shield the brain from disease and could inspire new treatments, they believe.
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