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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Protective Headgear Causes Controversy in Girls’ Soccer
Given the growing concussion crisis in girls’ soccer, some families are choosing to purchase their children with headgear that claims to prevent concussions. Experts are questioning whether said headgear gives athletes and their families a false sense …
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Study Shows Positive Results of Exercise in Alleviating Neuropathic Pain
An experimental study suggests that exercise may help to alleviate pain due to nerve damage (neuropathic pain) by reducing levels of certain inflammation-promoting factors. The research – led by author Yu-Wen Chen, PhD, of China Medical University …
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Friday, June 15, 2012
University of Wisconsin-Madison Researchers Uncover New Treatment Option for Drug-Resistant Brain Tumor
The study – which hails from the brain-tumor research lab of John Kuo, MD, assistant professor of neurological surgery and human oncology at UW School of Medicine and Public Health – also reports success for a combination therapy that knocks out …
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Impacts Ability to Learn New Walking Patterns
In a move to improve rehabilitation for patients with walking impairments, researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute have discovered that non-invasive stimulation of the cerebellum – an area of the brain that’s essential in adaptive learning …
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Magnets Used to Prevent Rare Spinal Anesthesia Complication
A simple technique using local anesthetic mixed with magnetized "ferrofluids" may offer a new approach to preventing a rare but serious complication of spinal anesthesia – that’s according to the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the official …
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Discovery of Alzheimer’s Protein Structure Could Lead to New Treatments
Vanderbilt University investigators say the molecular structure of a protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease – and the discovery that it binds cholesterol – could create new therapeutics for the disease, according to a report in June 1 issue of …
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Antidepressant Drug Duloxetine May Help to Relieve Pain Caused by Chemotherapy
The antidepressant drug duloxetine, known commercially as Cymbalta, helped relieve painful tingling sensations resulting from chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients in a new University of Michigan study – the first clinical trial to find an effective …
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Vanderbilt to Launch Nation’s First Educational Neuroscience Doctorate
Scheduled to start this fall, the interdisciplinary program will merge Vanderbilt’s No. 1-ranked Peabody College of Education and Human Development with the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, which administers one of the nation’s largest and highest ranking …
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Scientists Show How Motor Cortex’s Effects on Movement Can Be Better Understood
The June 3 issue of Nature reports that a new model for understanding how nerve cells in the brain control movement may reveal the secrets of the motor cortex — a critical region that has for a long time resisted scientists’ efforts to understand …
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Doctors Suggest Neck-strengthening Exercises as Means of Concussion Prevention in Girls’ Soccer
One way to help prevent concussions and reduce their severity in girls’ soccer is by doing regular neck-strengthening exercises, according to experts in the field. For more information, click here to view the demonstration video from NBC’s “Rock …
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