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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Comprehensive Stroke Centers Reduce Risk of Death in Hemorrhagic Stroke
Comprehensive stroke centers may offer statistically superior survivability and recovery rates compared to normal hospitals, drawing attention to the need for more regionally accessible centers. Physicians at the Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey …
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Thursday, May 28, 2015
How the Brain Separates Our Ability to Talk and Write
According to findings published in the journal Psychological Science, researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that it’s possible to damage the speaking part of the brain but leave the writing portion unaffected — and vice versa — even when …
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Advanced MRI Scans Could Help Predict Risk of Schizophrenia
New scanning methods may allow early identification of individuals at risk for developing schizophrenia by targeting a regional pathway transmission, which is hindered in those at risk of developing the condition. Researchers from Cardiff University …
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
How Does the Brain Respond to Hearing Loss?
Researchers from the University of Colorado applied fundamental principles of neuroplasticity — the ability of the brain to forge new connections — in order to determine the ways it can adapt to hearing loss, as well as the consequences of those …
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
It Doesn’t Take a Brain Injury to Have Headaches, Dizziness and Cognitive Impairment
New research proposes that general inflammation of the brain and related body parts — not just traditional concussion and neurotrauma — can cause the array of symptoms typically associated only with post-concussion syndrome. Researchers from McMaster …
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Researchers Find Neural Signals Align with Social Signals
In findings published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute found that our inherent risk-taking preferences affect how we view and act on information from other people. The brain scans taken …
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Friday, May 22, 2015
Fibromyalgia Has Central Nervous System Origins
New research proposes that the symptoms of fibromyalgia are heavily neurological in origin, which can often be overlooked by traditional treatment methods. A researcher from the University of Michigan presented the findings at the American Pain Society …
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Friday, May 22, 2015
Yoga and Chronic Pain Have Opposite Effects on Gray Matter
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), yoga can be an important tool for preventing or reversing the effects of chronic pain on the brain. Researchers from NIH explained that many chronic pain patients show associated anxiety and depression …
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
How Noise Changes the Way the Brain Gets Information
New research indicates that auditory cells not only react to noise levels, but rearrange themselves and function differently in order to adapt to their environment for optimal sound perception. Researchers from the University of Buffalo and John Hopkins …
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Researchers Confirm Serotonin’s Involvement in SAD
In a study recently published in the journal Current Biology, a team of biologists took a major step toward identifying the underlying neurobiological mechanism responsible for seasonal affective disorders (SAD), a type of depression that occurs during …
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