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Thursday, May 22, 2014
How the Brain Recognizes Familiar Music
Research from McGill University revealed that the brain’s motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed in the past better than music they have only heard. The study sheds light on how humans perceive and produce …
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Autism and Intellectual Disability Linked with Environmental Factors
An analysis of 100 million U.S. medical records revealed that autism and intellectual disability (ID) rates are correlated with incidence of congenital malformations in newborn males, an indicator of possible congenital exposure to harmful environmental …
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Helmet Therapy for Infant Positional Skull Deformation Discouraged
In a recent study, researchers from the Netherlands assessed 84 babies who had moderate or severe positional skull deformation to determine the benefit of helmet therapy for infants with flat-head syndrome. From the age of six months, half of the infants …
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Research Shows Strategic Thinking Strengthens Intellectual Capacity
According to research published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, strategy-based cognitive training has the potential to enhance cognitive performance and with real-life benefits. “One of the key differences in our studies from other interventional …
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Study Helps Explain Why MS is More Common in Women
Findings published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, may help explain why so many more women than men suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS). Women develop the disorder nearly four times more than men do, however, the reasons why are unclear. The …
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Studies Identify Spinal Cord Neurons that Control Skilled Limb Movement
Findings from two recent studies, published in separate issues of Nature, identified two types of neurons that enable the spinal cord to control skilled forelimb movement. The first is a group of excitatory interneurons that are needed to make accurate …
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Researchers Find Neural Signature for Mistake Correction
In findings from an eight-year study recently published in Cell, scientists at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics discovered the neural circuit associated with correcting one’s mistakes, an elusive brain signal underlying memory transfer …
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Social Workers Can Help Patients Recover from mTBI
Few people with mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) receive appropriate psychological and social follow-up care that can make the difference in whether or not they fully recover. A University of Washington researcher has found that a 20-minute conversation …
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Experimental Antibody Shows Early Promise for Treatment of Advanced Neuroblastoma
In a study at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, an experimental antibody showed early promise for treatment of advanced neuroblastoma. Tumors shrank or disappeared, and disease progression was temporarily halted in 15 children in a …
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Friday, May 16, 2014
New MRI-guided Biopsy for Brain Cancer
Neurosurgeons at UC San Diego Heath System have, for the first time, combined real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology with novel non-invasive cellular mapping techniques to develop a new biopsy approach that increases the accuracy of diagnosis …
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