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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Research Reveals Link Between Diabetes and Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), along with scientists from Northwestern University, have discovered direct experimental evidence that diabetes is linked to the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. The study …
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Monday, July 30, 2012
High School Students Compete in International Brain ‘Olympics’
A record number of National Brain Bee Champions from Wales, Italy, India, Kenya, Canada, Germany, Romania, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates and the U.S. met in Cape Town, South Africa, July 21-22 to compete …
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover Link Between Two Biological Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say they have found a cause-and-effect relationship between two well-established biological risk factors for schizophrenia that previously were thought to be independent of one another. The findings could lead …
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Wireless, Musical Glove Improves Sensation, Motor Skills in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
The invention has been used successfully by individuals with limited feeling or movement in their hands as a result of tetraplegia. Participants had sustained their injuries more than a year before the study — a time frame when most rehab patients …
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Friday, July 27, 2012
U.S. News & World Report Names Top-Ranked Hospitals for Neurology & Neurosurgery,Top Doctors
Johns Hopkins University and Mayo Clinic came in first and second, respectively, in U.S. News & World Report’s recently released Best Hospitals Rankings under the category of Neurology & Neurosurgery, which comprises 1,300 institutions. One makes the …
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Scientists Decode Neurons to Read Monkeys’ Minds
Over the course of the past past 30 years, researchers have learned that clear information can be gathered by decoding the activity of large populations of neurons. Now, scientists at Washington University in St. Louis who were decoding the brain activity …
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Hospitals’ Stroke-Care Rankings Change When Adjusted for Stroke Severity
Per the Affordable Care Act, hospitals and medical centers are required to report their quality-of-care and risk-standardized outcomes for stroke and other common medical conditions. However, a new study out of University of California, Los Angeles finds …
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Study Finds that Biomarker May Increase Odds of Developing Alzheimer’s Disease
Higher levels of ceramides — a certain fat in the blood — may increase a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to research that appears in the July 18, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American …
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes May Be Linked to Lack of Blood Flow to Brain
Study participants with multiple risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome — including abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high cholesterol — averaged 15 percent less blood flow to the brain than those in a control …
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Mentally Ill Patients More Likely to Develop Cancer
The study raise questions about whether mentally ill patients are receiving appropriate cancer screenings and preventive care as they relate to risk factors for cancer such as smoking. The findings appear in the journal Psychiatric Services. For more …
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