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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Specifics of Concussive Brain Damage Revealed in Study of Former NFL Players
Using a series of imaging and cognitive tests, researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine gathered evidence of accumulated brain damage that could be linked to specific memory deficits in former NFL players, experienced decades after they stopped …
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Study Finds Lead Negatively Impacts Cognitive Functions of Boys More than Girls
A new study published in the Journal of Environmental Health, conducted by Creighton University’s College of Arts and Sciences, reports that females are less impacted by high levels of lead than males. The study also discovered how impairment from …
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Drug Candidates Can Target Pathways Involved in Parkinson’s Cell Destruction
In a pair of recent studies published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Scientific Robots, researchers from The Scripps Research Institute have shown drug candidates that can target biological pathways involved in the destruction of brain cells …
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Psychopathic Violent Offenders’ Brains Can’t Understand Punishment
MRI scanning has allowed researchers from the King’s College London to analyze how those with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) respond cognitively to punishment within the legal system to determine if traditional correctional institutions address …
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Monday, February 9, 2015
Possible Therapeutic Target for Mysterious Brain Blood-vessel Disorder
Abnormal, leak-prone sproutings of blood vessels in the brain, called cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs), can lead to seizures, strokes, hemorrhages and other serious conditions, yet their precise molecular cause has never been determined. However …
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Monday, February 9, 2015
Depression, Behavior Changes May Start in Alzheimer’s Even Before Memory Changes
New findings regarding the connection between depression and the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease have been published in the journal Neurology by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The study followed 2,416 subjects …
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Friday, February 6, 2015
Impaired Brain Activity Linked to Inability to Regulate Emotions in Autism
Although symptoms such as temper tantrums, irritability, self-injury, depression and anxiety are associated with autism, they are not considered core symptoms of the disorder. In a recent study, published in the Journal of Autism Developmental Disorder …
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Brain Region Vulnerable to Aging is Larger in Those with Longevity Gene Variant
According to researchers from the University of California San Francisco, people who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with longevity also have larger volumes in a front part of the brain involved in planning and decision making. The findings …
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Decisions on Future Childbearing in Women Diagnosed with Meningioma
Researchers from the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., developed a survey to identify the impact of a meningioma diagnosis on women’s views about reproductive choices. Some reports indicate that pregnancy may be a risk factor for tumor progression …
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
In Infants, Pain from Vaccinations Shows Up in Brain Activity
A study conducted by the University College London, published in the journal PAIN, depicts innovative use of brain-wave technology attempting to understand the pain reception in infants during inoculation. Using electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor …
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