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Friday, September 26, 2014
Vitamin B1 Deficiency May Cause Brain Damage
According to a recent study published in the journal Scientific American Medicine, neurologists from Loyola University Medical Center reported that a deficiency of Vitamin B1 (thiamine) can cause a potentially fatal brain disorder called Wernicke encephalopathy …
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Friday, September 26, 2014
Researchers Develop New Method to Measure Cerebral Blood Flow
In a study recently published in the journal Biomedical Optics Express, researchers from Stony Brook University School of Medicine describe a novel imaging technique for measuring cerebral blood flow that focuses a Ti:Sapphire laser on the mouse brain …
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
Study Provides Clues on How Humans Focus Attention
In a recent study published in the journal Neuron, researchers from Johns Hopkins University revealed some answers about how the brain makes decisions regarding where to focus its attention based on studying barn owls. Barn owls have acute hearing and …
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
Neuroscientists Discover How the Brain Takes Aim
A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, conducted by researchers at York University, found that different regions of the brain help to visually locate objects relative to one’s own body (egocentric) and those relative to external visual …
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Neuroimaging Technique Identified Concussion-related Disease in Living Brain
Published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, a case study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and at Molecular Neuroimaging found an experimental positron emission tomography (PET) tracer to be effective in diagnosing concussion …
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Brain Scans to Forecast Early Reading Difficulties
In a recent study published in Psychological Science, University of California, San Francisco researchers have used brain scans to predict how young children learn to read, giving clinicians a possible tool to spot children with dyslexia and other reading …
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Brain Inflammation Dramatically Disrupts Memory Retrieval Networks
Brain inflammation can rapidly disrupt the ability to retrieve complex memories of similar but distinct experiences, according to a recent study in The Journal of Neuroscience. The report specifically identifies how cytokines impair communication among …
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Study Examines Impact of Violent Media on the Brain
A recent study published in PLOS One found that each person’s reaction to violent images depends on that individual’s brain circuitry, and on how aggressive they were initially. The study, led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount …
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Brain Structure Could Predict Risky Behavior
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that the volume of the parietal cortex in the brain could predict where people fall on the risk-taking spectrum. With findings published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, the research …
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Monday, September 22, 2014
New Device to Control Seizures Proving Effective for First Patient
Thirty days after neurologists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham implanted a neurotransmitter inside a young woman’s brain to control her seizures, she is reporting dramatic improvement. After suffering from seizures for 10 years, she became …
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