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Assistant Professor and Specialist in Obstetric-Gynaecological Nursing
Professor of Education Theory at the University of Malaga
Full professor at the University of Málaga
Professor of Psychology
Full professor in the Department of Teaching and School Organisation at the Faculty of Education, University of Malaga
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Science Methodology at the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, University of Málaga
Researcher at the Bioinformatics Unit of the Supercomputing and Bioinnovation Centre (SCBI) of the University of Málaga
Training people to get rid of unwanted thoughts can improve their mental health, according to a study from the University of Cambridge (UK). The research team stresses that these results "challenge the century-old wisdom" that trying to get rid of negative thoughts can have harmful effects on mental health. The study, published in Science Advances, involved 120 adults - some with major depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder - from 16 countries, who underwent a three-day online training to suppress certain thoughts. After the training, participants reported feeling less anxiety, negative emotions and symptoms of depression.
Seven studies published in Nature and Nature Medicine look at how lung cancer evolves, with genomic studies of more than 1,600 tumour samples taken from 421 patients in the TRACERx project. The research includes the most common type of lung cancer (NSCLC) and assesses why tumours sometimes recur, spread to other parts of the body or the effects of platinum-based chemotherapy.
Scientists have analysed data on 7.1 million common DNA variants (alterations in the standard sequence) in people with and without Alzheimer's disease. The results, published in PLOS Genetics, have helped them to develop a method that can predict the risk of suffering from this neurodegenerative disease, depending on the DNA variants that a person has and before presenting symptoms.
A study published in PLoS ONE concludes that students who attend classes with peers with disabilities do not see their academic results affected.