Archive
Date & Place:08 August 2010 - BBC news
By EMMA WILKINSON - A set of genes which renders people more prone to meningitis has been pinpointed by researchers.
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Date & Place:08 August 2010 - Scientific American news
By KATHERINE HARMON - Researchers have been searching for decades for a way to mend damage to the spinal cord, an injury that can lead to life-long paralysis.
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Date & Place:07 August 2010 - NewScientist news
By TYLER BANCROFT - IN A classic Monty Python moment, a chirpy, long-haired man on a crucifix urges others around him in a similar predicament to cheer up.
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Date & Place:04 August 2010 - The Globe and Mail news
By CAROLYN ABRAHAM - Experimental research by Toronto team aims to repair faulty nerve circuits with help of electricity
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Date & Place:03 August 2010 - CNN The Chart blog
By SANJAY GUPTA - Children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes already are huffing and puffing on the playground - a new study indicates they may also be stressing and straining in the classroom.
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Date & Place:02 August 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Numerous radiology practices were able to significantly reduce the radiation dose associated with multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) scans by participating in a one day dose optimization wor ...
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Date & Place:02 August 2010 - Scientific American news
By KATHERINE HARMON - Parents or siblings of people with autism are more likely to have some of the same visual-tracking problems that their affected relatives have
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Date & Place:02 August 2010 - Scientific American news
By LARRY GREENEMEiER - RAD-AID, Project Hope and Philips Healthcare team up to assess the ability of communities in western China and northern India to use CT scans, MRIs and other imaging equipmen ...
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Date & Place:02 August 2010 - Los Angeles Times news
By SHARI ROAN - A recent theory holds that MS is caused by obstruction in the blood vessels. New research calls that idea into question.
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Date & Place:02 August 2010 - New York Times news
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS - A conversation with John P. Donoghue.
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Date & Place:02 August 2010 - BBC news
Keeping your heart fit and strong can slow down the ageing of your brain, US researchers say.
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Date & Place:02 August 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
A new study shows a gene variant may increase the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms. The research will be published in the August 3, 2010, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of ...
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Date & Place:01 August 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
New research points to a genetic route to understanding and treating epilepsy. Timothy Jegla, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State University, has identified an ancient gene family that ...
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Date & Place:31 July 2010 - NewScientist news
A TINY, gene-regulating snippet of RNA may play a role in Parkinson's disease.
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Date & Place:31 July 2010 - New York Times news
By WALT BOGDANICH - When Alain Reyes's hair suddenly fell out in a freakish band circling his head, he was not the only one worried about his health. His co-workers at a shipping company avoided him ...
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Date & Place:29 July 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Interaction of multiple brain networks provides insight into how pain occurs
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Date & Place:28 July 2010 - US News and World Report (press release)
Researchers have developed a multifunctional nanoparticle that eliminates the background noise, enabling a more precise form of medical imaging
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Date & Place:26 July 2010 - ScienceNOW news
By MICHAEL BALTER - Why does human conversation come so easily? A new study chalks it up to a sort of "mind meld" between participants.
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Date & Place:26 July 2010 - Los Angeles Times BOOSTER SHOTS
By SHARI ROAN - The effects of methylphenidate -- a stimulant used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder -- are interesting.
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Date & Place:26 July 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
A unique device based on sniffing -- inhaling and exhaling through the nose -- might enable numerous disabled people to navigate wheelchairs or communicate with their loved ones.
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Date & Place:23 July 2010 - Wall Street Journal news
By GAUTAM NAIK - Scientists have found a way to dramatically reduce the erosion of memory and learning ability in mice with a version of Alzheimer's disease, potentially offering a new approach for ...
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Date & Place:23 July 2010 - NewScientis news
By CATHERINE DE LANGE - It's probably the first thing you ever did by yourself, but how did you know what to do?
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Date & Place:22 July 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Findings suggest IBS similar to other pain disorders.
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Date & Place:21 July 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Forget interviews, tests and career advisers, a brain scan may soon be the best way to discover your ideal job.
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Date & Place:20 July 2010 - Scientific American news
By NICHOLETTE ZELIADT - Researchers pin down two genes that may be responsible for abnormal neural development in Down's mice embryos. The findings may help identify possible therapeutic strategies ...
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Date & Place:17 July 2010 - NewScientist news
MIMICKING natural selection could boost the efficiency of brain implants and mean their batteries need to be replaced less often.
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Date & Place:16 July 2010 - New York Times news
By BENEDICT CAREY - Columbia University has quietly suspended research at a nationally prominent brain-imaging center and reassigned its top managers after federal investigators found that it had r ...
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Date & Place:16 July 2010 - European Hospital article
Early problems of ultra-high field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have been overcome by successful development of adequate hardware. In consequence big efforts have been achieved in structural im ...
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Date & Place:15 July 2010 - Wired news
By KATIE DRUMMOND - Pentagon-backed scientists are getting ready to test thought-controlled prosthetic arms on human subjects, by rewiring their brains to fully integrate the artificial limbs.
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Date & Place:14 July 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Scientists are making progress towards a better understanding of the neuropathology associated with debilitating psychiatric illnesses like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. New research, publish ...
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Date & Place:12 July 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
New research shows that people with Alzheimer's disease who have large heads have better memory and thinking skills than those with the disease who have smaller heads, even when they have the same a ...
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Date & Place:12 July 2010 - New York Times news
By GINA KOLATA - A small company with a new brain scan for detecting plaque, the hallmark physical sign of Alzheimer's disease, presented its results on Sunday at an international conference in Haw ...
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Date & Place:12 July 2010 - Popular Science news
By REBECCA BOYLE - A team of researchers at Northeastern University in Boston is working on a brain-robot interface that lets you command a robot by looking at specific regions on a computer screen ...
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Date & Place:12 July 2010 - Reuters
By ALAN ELSNER - A kind of scan called an MRI is much better for diagnosing stroke than a CT scan, the American Academy of Neurology said in new guidelines released on Monday.
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Date & Place:12 July 2010 - NewScientist article
By HELEN THOMSON - I'VE just had a brainwave. Oh, and there's another. And another! In fact, you will have had thousands of them since you started reading this sentence. These waves of electricity ...
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Date & Place:09 July 2010 - NewScientist article
By ANDY COGHLAN - A GENE has been discovered that appears to dictate the sexual preferences of female mice. Delete the gene and the modified mice reject the advances of the males and attempt to mat ...
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Date & Place:09 July 2010 - NewScientist news
By LINDA GEDDES - THE discovery of an antibody that binds to certain brain receptors could reduce the side effects of a common stroke drug and buy additional time in which to use it.
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Date & Place:08 July 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Genome-wide analysis of mice brains has found that maternally inherited genes are expressed preferentially in the developing brain, while the pattern shifts decisively in favor of paternal influence ...
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Date & Place:08 July 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found a compound that preserves newly created brain cells and boosts learning and memory in an animal study.
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Date & Place:08 July 2010 - The Economist news
Reading may involve unlearning an older skill.
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Date & Place:07 July 2010 - BBC news
By FERGUS WALSH - The most comprehensive health study in the UK has reached its goal of enrolling 500,000 adults.
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Date & Place:07 July 2010 - Telegraph news
By MATTHEW MOORE - Parkinson's sufferers could be in line for new treatments after research showed that switching on particular cells in the brain eases symptoms of the degenerative condition.
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Date & Place:06 July 2010 - The Associated Press
By LAURAN NEERGAARD - U.S. health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind technology to counter a leading cause of blindness in older adults - a tiny telescope implanted inside the eye.
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Date & Place:06 July 2010 - Telegraph news
By REBECCA SMITH - Abnormalities in the brain may be responsible for teenage anti-social behaviour - not peer pressure and poor upbringing, according to a research study.
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Date & Place:05 July 2010 - Telegraph news
By REBECCA SMITH - A simple blood test to predict Alzheimer's disease up to 10 years before symptoms appear could be developed after researchers found high levels of a protein can be an early sign o ...
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Date & Place:01 July 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
With more than 100 billion neurons and billions of other specialized cells, the human brain is a marvel of nature. It is the organ that makes people unique.
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Date & Place:30 June 2010 - BBC news
By JANE DREAPER - A devastating brain condition is at least twice as common as was previously thought, medical experts say.
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Date & Place:30 June 2010 - Reuters news
By JULIE STEENHUYSEN - Combining a specific imaging test of the brain with a memory recall test appears to be the best predictor so far of Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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Date & Place:30 June 2010 - BBC news
By EMMA WILKINSON - A blood test during pregnancy could one day replace more invasive tests for Down's syndrome, say researchers.
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Date & Place:30 June 2010 - Reuters news
By KATE KELLAND - Scientists working with Parkinson's disease patients who had pioneering transplant surgery using aborted foetal tissue have figured out what causes one of the most damaging side-e ...
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Date & Place:29 June 2010 - Physorg.com news (press release)
It's a common scenario: you're on a diet, determined to give up eating cakes, but as you pass the cake counter, all resolve disappears... Now, scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimagin ...
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Date & Place:29 June 2010 - Psych Central news
By RICK NAUERT - A leading researcher believes a single MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan may soon provide individuals and health professionals with a faster and more accurate diagnosis of bipo ...
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Date & Place:25 June 2010 - Telegraph news
By REBECCA SMITH - Wisdom comes from the brain slowing down in old age making elderly people less impulsive and driven by emotion, researchers say.
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Date & Place:25 June 2010 - Physorg.com news (press release)
The rare phenomenon of blindsight has been known for a long time, but until now has never been understood. People with blindsight are effectively blind through damage to the primary visual cortex ...
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Date & Place:24 June 2010 - Telegraph news
Scientists claim to have discovered the secret to overcoming fear, raising the possibility of designer drugs being created to boost courage.
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Date & Place:24 June 2010 - ScienceDaily (press release)
The nerve cell-damaging plaque that builds up in the brain with Alzheimer's disease also builds up in the retinas of the eyes -- and it shows up there earlier, leading to the prospect that noninvas ...
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Date & Place:24 June 2010 - Telegraph news
By BEN LEACH - Applying magnets to the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers can help to improve their symptoms, according to new research.
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Date & Place:23 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
GUMC researchers: If a healthy noise cancellation system is restored within the brain, it may be possible to treat the disorder -- the most common auditory disorder in adults.
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Date & Place:23 June 2010 - New York Times news
By GINA KOLATA - Dr. Daniel Skovronsky sat at a small round table in his corner office, laptop open, waiting for an e-mail message. His right leg jiggled nervously.
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Date & Place:22 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Personalities come in all kinds. Now psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people's brains correspond to their personalities; for example, conscientious people tend ...
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Date & Place:22 June 2010 - PsychCentral news
By JESSICA WARD JONES -Signs of schizophrenia may be present in the brain from birth.
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Date & Place:22 June 2010 - ABC news
By MAGGIE FOX (REUTERS) - Brain scans may be able to predict what you will do better than you can yourself, and might offer a powerful tool for advertisers or health officials seeking to motivate c ...
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Date & Place:22 June 2010 - Medical News Today
"A great deal of experience is required to give a definitive diagnosis of the state of consciousness of a coma patient, particularly since difficult ethical questions are linked to the classificatio ...
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Date & Place:18 June 2010 - The Sidney Morning Herald news
By EDWINA SCOTT - A Tasmanian epilepsy sufferer has become the first person in the world to be implanted with a device that gives patients early warnings of a seizure.
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Date & Place:17 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
The increasing number of incidental findings in brain imaging can be managed ethically and cost-effectively by screening study participants based on gender, age and family history, according to Uni ...
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Date & Place:17 June 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Some people may like a good argument but actually our brains prefer it when we all agree, new research suggests.
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Date & Place:17 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
There is a great deal of interest in factors that contribute to the vulnerability to developing post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. One factor that appears to contribute to the heritable vulne ...
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Date & Place:16 June 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Within the first week after giving birth, up to 70 percent of all women experience symptoms of the baby blues. While most women recover quickly, up to 13 percent of all new mothers suffer from symp ...
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Date & Place:16 June 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - A simple blood test that can predict multiple sclerosis up to nine years before symptoms appear is being developed by scientists.
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Date & Place:15 June 2010 - NewScientist blog
By EWEN CALLAWAY - The sun is about to set on the Wild West that is "direct-to-consumer" genetics.
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Date & Place:15 June 2010 - Nature news [may require subscription]
By ALISON ABBOTT - Directive that limits workers' electromagnetic exposure aims for a compromise.
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Date & Place:15 June 2010 - R&D Mag news
Radioactively labeled drugs can track inflammation in the brain
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Date & Place:15 June 2010 - Scientific American news
By LARRY GREENEMEIER - Emerging technologies successfully stimulate retinas ravaged by retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration and other diseases to give sufferers a new lease on lig ...
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Date & Place:14 June 2010 - Reuters
By JULIE STEENHUYSEN - A study of brain scans has confirmed the role of several genes linked with Alzheimer's disease, and turned up two others that are worth exploring, U.S. researchers said on Mo ...
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Date & Place:14 June 2010 - Reuters
By KATE KELLAND - Men with certain genetic variations who were exposed to some toxic pesticides which are now largely banned run an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease, French scientis ...
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Date & Place:14 June 2010 - BusinessWeek news
By ROBERT PREIDT - Doctors need guidelines for discussing anomalies found in 'routine' MRIs, researchers say
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Date & Place:11 June 2010 - Montreal Gazette news
BY CHARLIE FIDELMAN - When Dr. Nada Jabado was asked to investigate the mysterious illness that caused a young Montreal woman to lose two babies within six months, she thought she'd be very lucky to ...
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Date & Place:10 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
A team of biologists has isolated genes that regulate the sleep-feeding conflict. The study, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, offers new insights into how the brain ...
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Date & Place:10 June 2010 - Reuters article
By JULIE STEENHUYSEN - A brain mechanism that acts like a recycling plant for toxic proteins goes haywire in people with a gene mutation linked with Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Th ...
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Date & Place:09 June 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - A new test for autism in children has come a step closer after the world's largest study into the disability discovered a number of genetic links to the condition.
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Date & Place:09 June 2010 - New Scientist news
By EWEN CALLAWAY - You spend more time window shopping than you may realise. Whether someone intends to buy a product or not can be predicted from their brain activity - even when they are not cons ...
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Date & Place:08 June 2010 - Scientific American article
By LUKE STOECKEL - For healthy body weight, the brain's reward system may need to be 'just right'
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Date & Place:07 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Depressed mood increases the perception of pain
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Date & Place:07 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
First-of-its-kind study introduces a new hybrid imaging system combining molecular imaging with magnetic resonance technology
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Date & Place:07 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Brain imaging technique can track build-up of plaques associated with early stages of Alzheimer's disease
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Date & Place:06 June 2010 - Nature news
By AMY MAXMEN - Drug for schizophrenia causes side effects by shrinking part of the brain.
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Date & Place:05 June 2010 - Guardian article
By BEN GOLDACRE - One tiny brain-imaging study of fatty acids has been used to endorse fish oil as education's magic pill
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Date & Place:03 June 2010 - Psych Central news
By RICK NAUERT - A new research study investigates how the brain updates our memory bank so as to improve our expectations of future rewards.
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Date & Place:03 June 2010 - Times online news
A pioneering approach to personalised cancer care where therapy is genetically tailored to individuals' tumours is to be offered to NHS patients for the first time. Up to 6,000 cancer patients a ye ...
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Date & Place:03 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
There are biological motivations behind the stereotypically poor decisions and risky behavior associated with adolescence, new research from a University of Texas at Austin psychologist reveals.
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Date & Place:02 June 2010 - Los Angeles Times Booster Shots blog
By THOMAS H. MAUGH II - In a surprising finding, researchers have discovered that deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease is equally effective at either of the two most commonly used sites.
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Date & Place:01 June 2010 - Science Insider
By JENNIFER COUZIN FRANKEL - In the first decision of its kind, a federal magistrate judge has ruled that functional magnetic resonance imaging shouldn't be permitted in the courtroom as a new type ...
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Date & Place:01 June 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Just because your mother has turned 85, you shouldn't assume you'll have to take over her financial matters. She may be just as good or better than you at making quick, sound, money-making decision ...
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Date & Place:01 June 2010 - New York Times news
By PAM BELLUCK - Tucked away on a steep street in this rough-hewn mountain town, an old woman found herself diapering her middle-age children.
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Date & Place:31 May 2010 - Guardian news
By AMELIA HILL - UK research into teenagers' brains shows their mental processes are like those of younger children
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Date & Place:31 May 2010 - Newsweek article
By SHARON BEGLEY - It took Sherlock Holmes to deduce the significance of the dog that didn't bark.* So maybe it's understandable that neuroscientists have traditionally ignored the brain activity th ...
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Date & Place:27 May 2010 - USNews & World Report news
By BRUCE BOWER - Victims with a genetic variant have more emotional problems
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Date & Place:27 May 2010 - Nature news
By JANELLE WEAVER - Bone-marrow transplants cure obsessive-compulsive behaviour in mice.
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Date & Place:27 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Our brain works as a set of networks - much like the internet. Could our understanding of the internet help us in understanding our brains?
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Date & Place:27 May 2010 - BBC news
By RORY CELLAN-JONES - A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus.
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Date & Place:26 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
A team of American psychologists and neuroscientists have found that adult brain volume, which can be reduced by Anorexia Nervosa, can be regained.
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Date & Place:26 May 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
The process of learning requires the sophisticated ability to constantly update our expectations of future rewards so we may make accurate predictions about those rewards in the face of a changing e ...
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Date & Place:25 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Researchers working with Professor Gudrun Rappold, Director of the Department of Molecular Human Genetics at Heidelberg University Hospital, have discovered previously unknown mutations in autistic ...
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Date & Place:24 May 2010 - Telegraph news
The study, carried out by the Boston University School of Medicine, has now shown that the disease may be linked to obesity after they found excess weight was assosciated with lower total brain vol ...
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Date & Place:24 May 2010 - The Guardian news
By IAN SAMPLE - Team led by Sir Ian Wilmut will hope their research gives an unprecedented insight into motor neurone disease
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Date & Place:24 May 2010 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazzete news
By MARK ROTH - The prospect of brain surgery can be frightening. And yet, when it comes to epilepsy, surgery is being vastly underused, says Anto Bagic, director of the University of Pittsburgh's C ...
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Date & Place:24 May 2010 - Science Insider
By GREG MILLER - The Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched its map of gene expression in the human brain. The institute, started in 2003 with $100 million in seed money from Microsoft co-fo ...
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Date & Place:21 May 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Research published in the journal Genetics identifies gene candidates likely to be responsible for plaque-like formations that lead to neurological decline in Huntington's and similar diseases
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Date & Place:20 May 2010 - Bloomberg Businessweek news
By RANDY DOTINGA - Amyloid-beta accumulates in eyes of Down-affected patients, spurring cataracts, study finds
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Date & Place:19 May 2010 - Bloomberg Businessweek news
By AMANDA GARDNER - Brain scans of sleeping toddlers show differences in response to bedtime stories.
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Date & Place:19 May 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
It is time to reassess mental disorders, recognizing that these are disorders of brain circuits likely caused by development processes, according to a commentary in the May 19 issue of JAMA, a them ...
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Date & Place:19 May 2010 - Telegraph Health Advice
By JAMES LE FANU - The potential downside to clot-busting drugs.
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Date & Place:18 May 2010 - CBC news
The brains of ecstasy users show low levels of a certain protein, a finding that may explain why many feel they need to turn to higher doses of the drug.
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Date & Place:18 May 2010 - Scientific American news
By RICHARD MADDOCK - Study casts new light on the brain mechanisms behind recurrent bouts of intense anxiety.
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Date & Place:18 May 2010 - Healthcanal news
Researchers have identified an important cancer gene that could lead to more effective drugs being developed to fight paediatric high grade glioma, a disease which currently has a poor prognosis.
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Date & Place:17 May 2010 - Wired news
By ALEXIS MADRIGAL - The very first federal admissibility hearing for fMRI lie-detection evidence wrapped up May 14 in a Tennessee court room. The decision, expected in a couple weeks, could have a ...
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Date & Place:17 May 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Patients who received hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for their recurrent brain cancers lived longer lives, according to researchers at Thomas Jefferson University.
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Date & Place:17 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
In the most comprehensive study to date, neurologists have clearly identified significant differences in the ways that Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects patients with and without the apolipoprotein ...
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Date & Place:17 May 2010 - Wired news
By ALEXIS MADRIGAL - The judge in a recent Brooklyn case in which brain scan evidence was offered has delivered an opinion on why he ultimately excluded the fMRI data.
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Date & Place:17 May 2010 - Western Ontario University news
By COMMUNICATIONS STAFF - One of the world's foremost neuroscientists, Adrian Owen, has been recruited to The University of Western Ontario as a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) and will bri ...
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Date & Place:14 May 2010 - Scientific American Observations blog
By KATHERINE HARMON - Among the more than a quarter of a million published functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies are assays that have purported to locate our mental experiences of re ...
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Date & Place:16 May 2010 - LiveScience news
By STEPHANIE PAPPAS - Seniors hoping to stay sharp in old age are bombarded with recommendations, from doing brainteasers to drinking red wine. But a recent review of research brings sobering news: ...
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Date & Place:14 May 2010 - Wired news
By ALEXIS MADRIGAL - After a judge excluded brain scan evidence offered by the plaintiff, a jury quickly found for the defense in a Brooklyn sexual harassment case this week.
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Date & Place:12 May 2010 - BBC news
By HELEN BRIGGS - Every morning Christian Kandlbauer wakes up, dresses himself, and gets in his car to drive to work.
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Date & Place:12 May 2010 - NewScientist news
By EWEN CALLAWAY - People with autism seem to have normal "mirror" neurons after all. A popular theory has it that these neurons - brain cells that fire both when you perform an action and when you ...
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Date & Place:12 May 2010 - Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Center (blog)
A Calgary, Canada research team developed a new software program to allow Canadian doctors to view brain scans and similar diagnostic images on a standard iPhone.
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Date & Place:11 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Dozens of potential applications await a new neurological probing platform developed by European scientists. The new system offers the promise of new cures for neurological disease and a better und ...
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Date & Place:11 May 2010 - Scientific American Observations blog
By KATHERINE HARMON - Symptoms of sickle cell anemia often include severe pain and other major medical complications, but a new study shows that the disease might also decrease cognitive abilities ...
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Date & Place:11 May 2010 - MedPage Today news
By JOHN GEVER - The largest genome-wide association study in Alzheimer's disease to date has identified two new genetic variants and confirmed two others, but research leaders conceded that they wo ...
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Date & Place:10 May 2010 - Scientific American Observations blog
By KATHERINE HARMON - Schizophrenia involves some of the same genetic variations as autism and attention deficit disorders, a new whole-genome analysis study has confirmed.
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Date & Place:10 May 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Children with dyslexia often struggle with reading, writing, and spelling, despite getting an appropriate education and demonstrating intellectual ability in other areas. New neurological research ...
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Date & Place:10 May 2010 - BBC news
By MICHELLE ROBERTS - Brain scans could be useful as lie detectors to show if a witness lies when identifying a suspect in a crime investigation, US researchers believe.
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Date & Place:09 May 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD GRAY - A 62-year-old woman is providing new insights into how the human brain works after becoming the first person to be diagnosed with a condition that leaves her unable to recognise v ...
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Date & Place:08 May 2010 - NewScientist news
IS A sound only a sound if someone hears it? Apparently not. Silent videos that merely imply sound - such as of someone playing a musical instrument - still get processed by auditory regions of the ...
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Date & Place:07 May 2010 - Physorg.com news
We know more about the cosmos than we do about the human brain, but work by European researchers will now allow scientists to probe further into the mysteries of our grey matter. [ This is the firs ...
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Date & Place:07 May 2010 - The New York Times article
By PATRICIA COHEN - Grab a timer and set it for one minute. Now list as many creative uses for a brick as you can imagine. Go.
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Date & Place:07 May 2010 - Wired news
By KATIE DRUMMOND - An estimated 10 to 20 percent of troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, which afflict 1.7 million Americans each year. ...
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Date & Place:07 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
A study of mice entering their twilight years has identified specific changes in the brain that impair these elderly mice during learning-and researchers say that their findings might benefit people ...
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Date & Place:05 May 2010 - Science news
By GREG MILLER - People with Tourette syndrome are plagued by unwanted movements and verbal tics that run the gamut from extra eye blinks and grimaces to involuntary grunts or even cursing. Althoug ...
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Date & Place:05 May 2010 - Nature news feature
By LIZZIE BUCHEN - Systems neuroscientists are pushing aside their electrophysiology rigs to make room for the tools of 'optogenetics'. Lizzie Buchen reports from a field in the process of reinvent ...
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Date & Place:06 May 2010 - Royal Society of Chemistry news
By ANDY EXTANCE - A protein coupled with a carbon nanotube has provided a previously unavailable direct biological-to-electronic interface, which its developers hope could lead to brain-controlled p ...
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Date & Place:05 May 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Compulsive gamblers carry on making bets even when they are on a losing streak because a near miss rewards their brains almost as much as a win, claim scientists.
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Date & Place:04 May 2010 - US News & World report news
By NATHAN SEPPA - People with post-traumatic stress disorder seem to accumulate an array of genetic changes different from those found in healthy people, researchers report online May 3 in the Proc ...
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Date & Place:04 May 2010 - Wired news
By ALEXIS MADRIGAL - A Brooklyn attorney hopes to break new ground this week when he offers a brain scan as evidence that a key witness in a civil trial is telling the truth, Wired.com has learned. ...
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Date & Place:04 May 2010 - The Independent news
By LEWIS SMITH - An audit of the state of neurological science is to be carried out by Britain's pre-eminent scientific academy to establish rules for conducting research and treating and altering ...
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Date & Place:04 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Language is a defining aspect of what makes us human. Although some brain regions are known to be associated with language, neuroscientists have had a surprisingly difficult time using brain imagin ...
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Date & Place:03 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Some depressed patients who don't respond to or tolerate antidepressant medications may benefit from a non-invasive treatment that stimulates the brain with a pulsing electromagnet, a study suggest ...
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Date & Place:03 May 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
Brain changes associated with the most common cause of mental retardation can be seen in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of children as young as one to three years old, according to a study ...
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Date & Place:02 May 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Although there is no known cause of autism, studies have shown that mutations in several genes are associated with the developmental brain disorder. New research has uncovered two additional genes ...
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Date & Place:30 April 2010 - BBC news
By HELEN BRIGGS - A US scientist has had all his DNA screened for genes which predict the diseases he may develop in later life.
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Date & Place:29 April 2010 - Scientific American news
By KATIE MOISSE - The genetic cause of mirror movements reveals how the nervous system is wired during development.
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Date & Place:29 April 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Researchers have developed a way to enhance how brain tumors appear in MRI scans and during surgery, making the tumors easier for surgeons to identify and remove.
Scientists at Ohio State Univ ...
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Date & Place:28 April 2010 - NewScientist interview
By LIZ ELSE - The co-director of a new centre for studying consciousness talks about the essence of redness, the dimensions of experience - and feeling unreal.
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Date & Place:28 April 2010 - Nature news
By ALLA KATSNELSON - Mapping milestone emphasizes complexity of disease.
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Date & Place:28 April 2010 - BBC news
By HELEN BRIGGS - Brain surgery to treat Parkinson's disease is more effective than medication alone, a study has found.
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Date & Place:27 April 2010 - Nature blog The Great Beyond
By DANIEL CRESSEY - Scientists have bred an unusually anxious, compulsively overgrooming mouse by knocking out a single gene called Slitrk5.
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Date & Place:27 April 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed an imaging protocol that allows them to visualize the activity of the brain's reward circuitry in both n ...
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Date & Place:27 April 2010 - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal news
By CHRIS NEWMARKER - Medtronic Inc. on Monday said federal regulators have approved the latest version of a brain surgery device allowing for real-time MRI imaging in the operating room.
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Date & Place:27 April 2010 - Washington University in St. Louis
By TONY FITZPATRICK - Brain scans show persistent motivation regardless of payoff.
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Date & Place:26 April 2010 - Wired science news
By EMMET COLE - A team of European experts is working on a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton that could enable people currently confined to wheelchairs to walk again and also help astronauts reha ...
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Date & Place:23 April 2010 - MMD Newswire (press release)
One million people in the United States have already been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. According to the U.S. National Parkinson Foundation (NPF), approximately 50 to 60,000 new cases of Park ...
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Date & Place:22 April 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
University of Utah Brain Institute researcher leads multi-institution team in groundbreaking study.
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Date & Place:20 April 2010 - Scientific American news
By INGRID WICKELGREN - Feelings, especially unconscious ones, can affect financial decisions, so it's a good idea to monitor your moods.
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Date & Place:20 April 2010 - The Independent news
The genome has allowed scientists to shed new light on some of the most intractable medical conditions. Steve Connor reports
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Date & Place:20 April 2010 - Time news
By EBEN HARRELL - Brain-training tasks improve performance in the trained tasks alone, rather than improving cognitive performance overall.
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Date & Place:19 April 2010 - U.S.News & World Report (press release)
Gene variant and sense of family discord implicated in new study
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Date & Place:19 April 2010 - Wired news
By JANELLE WEAVER - Silk has made its way from the soft curves of the body to the spongy folds of the brain. Engineers have now designed silk-based electronics that stick to the surface of the brai ...
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Date & Place:16 April 2010 - NewScientist news
By HELEN THOMSON - BRAIN cells that may underlie our ability to empathise with others have been detected directly in people for the first time.
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Date & Place:15 April 2010 - Wall Street Journal news
By SHIRLEY S. WANG - Avid, Bayer, General Electric Push Agents to Spot the Disease From Brain Scans
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Date & Place:15 April 2010 - Scientific American news
By KATHERINE HARMON - New research shows that rather than being totally devoted to one goal at a time, the human brain can distribute two goals to different hemispheres to keep them both in mind--if ...
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Date & Place:15 April 2010 - AFP (press release)
A gene mutation in the brain can trigger irregular heart beat and sudden death in people with epilepsy, according to a study released Tuesday.
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Date & Place:14 April 2010 - Business Week article
By JENIFER GOODWIN - People with variant have almost double the risk of developing dementia, study finds
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Date & Place:14 April 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Some of us need regular amounts of coffee or other chemical enhancers to make us cognitively sharper. A newly published study suggests perhaps a brief bit of meditation would prepare us just as wel ...
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Date & Place:14 April 2010 - Physorg.com (press release)
In work that could lead to new insights into how neurons protect against neurodegeneration, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report that a gene family known for its ro ...
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Date & Place:13 April 2010 - Banner Health News (press release)
A brain-imaging study published today in the Archives of Neurology suggests that major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease in the Anglo population is also a risk factor for the disease in L ...
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Date & Place:13 April 2010 - Newsweek news
By MARY CARMICHAEL - At least when it comes to these cheap, effective medical tests.
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Date & Place:12 April 2010 - Scientific American 60-Second Psych
By CHRISTIE NICHOLSON - A new approach to manipulating the brain with light is gaining increasing attention.
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Date & Place:11 April 2010 - Guardian news
By PAUL HARRIS and ALISON FLOOD - 'Neuro lit crit' is the study of how great writing affects the hard wiring inside our heads. But can we decode the artistic impulse?
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Date & Place:10 April 2010 - The Washington Post news
By DAVID BROWN - As many as 250,000 veterans of the Persian Gulf War "have persistent unexplained medical symptoms" whose cause may never be found, although genetic testing and functional brain ima ...
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Date & Place:09 April 2010 - Astrobiology Magazine (press release)
A combination of simple bio-acoustic sensors and some sophisticated machine learning makes it possible for people to use their fingers or forearms - potentially, any part of their bodies - as touch ...
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Date & Place:09 April 2010 - Reuters
By JULIE STEENHUYENS - People with a family history of Alzheimer's disease often have clumps of a toxic protein in their brains even though they are perfectly healthy, researchers said on Monday.
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Date & Place:08 April 2010 - Reuters
By SAMANTHA GROSS - Mind reading may no longer be the domain of psychics and fortune tellers - now some computers can do it, too.
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Date & Place:08 April 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Research in the FASEB Journal describes discrete epigenetic changes of DNA in a certain subgroup of twins and siblings with autism.
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Date & Place:08 April 2010 - ScienceDaily (press release)
Depression and schizophrenia can be triggered by environmental stimuli and often occur in response to stressful life events. However, some people have a higher predisposition to develop these disea ...
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Date & Place:07 April 2010 - NewScientist news news
By EWEN CALLAWAY - DEEP brain stimulation has long been psychiatry's black magic: stick electrodes into a region linked to mental illness, deliver rapid pulses of weak current, and voila! Crippling ...
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Date & Place:07 April 2010 - CNN Paging Dr. Gupta blog
By ELIZABETH LANDAU - If you are particularly sensitive to the world around you - whether it's music, caffeine, other people's emotions, you may have a personality trait called "sensory processing ...
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Date & Place:06 April 2010 - Telegraph news
By MATTHEW MOORE - Genes that can cause brain aneurysms have been identified by scientists in a breakthrough which could eventually diagnose those at greatest risk.
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Date & Place:02 April 2010 - Science news focus
By JOHN COHEN - Using a noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging scanner, investigators have launched a pathbreaking journey through the chimpanzee brain to probe everything from cognition to disease ...
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Date & Place:02 April 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Worrying could actually be good for you because it lessens the effect of depression, a study suggests.
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Date & Place:01 April 2010 - Scientific American news
By KATIE MOISSE - 15 years after a gene defect was found to increase the risk of schizophrenia 30-fold, scientists have figured out how it might cause the brain disorder's debilitating symptoms
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Date & Place:30 March 2010 - Reuters article
Patients are finally starting to reap some of the benefits of personalized medicine.
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Date & Place:30 March 2010 - NewScientist news
By ANDY COGHLAN - IS IT more morally acceptable to kill someone accidentally, or intend to kill them but fail? Most people would go for the first option - unless their brains are impaired in regions ...
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Date & Place:30 March 2010 - NewScientist news
By LINDA GEDDES - AS FAR as the internet or phone networks go, bad connections are bad news. Not so in the brain, where slower connections may make people more creative.
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Date & Place:30 March 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Psychologists of Jena University, Germany, show that verbal stimuli activate pain matrix.
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Date & Place:30 March 2010 - ABC news
By SIMON LAUDER - Melbourne researchers have developed a prototype for a bionic eye which they hope to implant in a person within three years.
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Date & Place:29 March 2010 - Physorg (press release)
Of the millions of animals on Earth, including the relative handful that are considered the most intelligent -- including apes, whales, crows, and owls -- only humans experience the severe age-rela ...
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Date & Place:27 March 2010 - Times online news
By MARK HENDERSON - A genetic test that predicts how patients with mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia will respond to drugs is to be offered to British doctors, in a step towards ...
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Date & Place:25 March 2010 - EurekAlert! (Press release)
Two genes have been associated with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) in a new study of 661 families.
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Date & Place:25 March 2010 - BBC news
By TOM FEILDEN - Imagine a world in which we could wipe the slate clean.
No, not undo the damage our actions had caused - for that we'd need a time machine - but rather erase painful memories of ...
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Date & Place:24 March 2010 - Physorg.com (Press release)
Researchers have discovered that the brain saves energy by predicting what it is likely to see.
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Date & Place:24 March 2010 - EurekAlert! (Press release)
Changes in brain connectivity with aging may enable older adults to remember positive events.
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Date & Place:23 March 2010 - CBC news
Researchers have identified a genetic mutation that plays a key role in how children with a rare type of brain tumour are likely to respond to therapy, a finding that should help doctors tailor tre ...
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Date & Place:23 March 2010 - CNET news
By ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG MOORE - A brain scanning technique known as resting-state functional connectivity (FC) could help clinicians identify and even predict the effects of brain injuries such as s ...
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Date & Place:22 March 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Tel Aviv University pioneers research for new retinal implant technology.
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Date & Place:22 March 2010 - NewScientist feature
By ANIL ANANTHASWAMY - STEVEN LAUREYS will always remember the 21-year-old woman who had had a stroke. She had been taken to a hospital in Liège, Belgium, where her condition worsened rapidly.
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Date & Place:18 March 2010 - Nature special issue
Nature explores the chasm between academic science and forensic science through fingerprint analysis, DNA evidence and brain imaging, and offers some ways to narrow the gap.
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Date & Place:18 March 2010 - NewScientist news
By WENDY ZUKERMAN - IN THE YouTube age it is easy to forget that artists rely on clever tricks to create a sense of motion in still images. Now brain scans show why one method of creating "implicit ...
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Date & Place:18 March 2010 - BBC news
Deep brain stimulation is a promising therapy for epilepsy, US researchers from Stanford University have said.
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Date & Place:16 March 2010 - The Associated Press
By MATTHEW PERRONE - The Food and Drug Administration voiced several complaints Tuesday with Medtronic's study of a new pacemaker that can be used in an MRI machine.
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Date & Place:15 March 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Selective hearing - the ability to filter out unwanted noise and conversation - really does exist, according to research that scientists hope could help combat deafness.
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Date & Place:15 March 2010 - Reuters
By JULIE STEENHUYSEN - People with a family history of Alzheimer's disease often have clumps of a toxic protein in their brains even though they are perfectly healthy, researchers said on Monday.
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Date & Place:15 March 2010 - US News&World Report news
By NANCY SHUTE - From the headlines, you'd think that the new genetic test for autism described today in the journal Pediatrics will give parents of children with autism the answers they so despera ...
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Date & Place:15 March 2010 - NewScientist news
By EWEN CALLAWAY - A lack of emotion isn't the only thing driving psychopaths. It now seems that their brains may overvalue the pleasure associated with getting what they want. In extreme psychopat ...
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Date & Place:12 March 2010 - ScienceDaily (press release)
Significant changes in brain plasticity have been observed following alpha brainwave training.
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Date & Place:11 March 2010 - The Associated Press (press release)
By MATTHEW PERRONE (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday a nerve stimulating implant from Medtronic failed to significantly reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.
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Date & Place:11 March 2010 - Guardian news
By IAN SAMPLE - Brain scans revealed with reasonable accuracy which short film clip volunteers were thinking about.
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Date & Place:11 March 2010 - NewScientist news
By WENDY ZUKERMAN - Overprotective parents inhibit more than their kids' freedom: they may also slow brain growth in an area linked to mental illness.
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Date & Place:10 March 2010 - Wired news
By JANET RALOFF - Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of s ...
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Date & Place:10 March 2010 - Reuters
By MAGGIE FOX - Two studies published on Wednesday show it is possible to sequence the entire gene maps of families with inherited diseases and pinpoint the offending bit of DNA.
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Date & Place:09 March 2010 - TriCities.com news
By NATE MORABITO - People who suffer from ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease often lose their ability to speak. Although the disease paralyzes their body, a new research project at East Tennessee State Uni ...
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Date & Place:09 March 2010 - BBC news
Aches, fever, exhaustion... when you have been knocked out with the flu, the symptoms are bad enough.
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Date & Place:09 March 2010 - NewScientist news
By EWEN CALLAWAY - WHY can't teachers keep a secret? Because their pupils give them away. It turns out that when people make decisions, their pupils dilate, a subtle cue that could be used to predi ...
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Date & Place:09 March 2010 - NewScientist news
By Jessica Hamzelou - Your favourite song comes on the radio. You hum the tune; the lyrics remind you of someone you know. Is your brain processing the words and music separately or as one? It's a ...
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Date & Place:08 March 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - The reason some people can feel more pain than others may have been explained by scientists.
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Date & Place:04 March 2010 - EurekAlert! (press release)
Psychosurgery is making a comeback. Recently published case series have shown encouraging results of so-called deep brain stimulation (DBS) in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder, dep ...
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Date & Place:04 March 2010 - New York Times Well blog
By TARA PARKER-POPE - Imagine talking to another person and realizing you couldn't tell whether he was angry, sad, fearful or disgusted.
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Date & Place:04 March 2010 - CNN news
By CALEB HELLERMAN - The first week of each month, Karen and Jerry Vaneman pack their car for a four-hour drive from Asheville, North Carolina, to the medical complex at Duke University.
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Date & Place:03 March 2010 - NewScientist news
By JESSICA HAMZELOU - PAIN intensity, the most personal of experiences, can now be measured from the outside, say researchers who scanned the brains of young men who were fresh out of the operating ...
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Date & Place:02 March 2010 - Scientific American news
By KATIE MOISSE - New research holds promise for a noninvasive brain-computer interface that allows mental control over computers and prosthetics
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Date & Place:02 March 2010 - The Globe and Mail article
By ANNE MCILROY - Call them daydream believers. Brain-imaging experts from Canada and around the world have joined forces to investigate the architecture of an idle mind to learn more about mental i ...
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Date & Place:28 February 2010 - Newswise (press release)
MIT neuroscientists have designed a new MRI sensor that responds to the neurotransmitter dopamine, an achievement that may significantly improve the specificity and resolution of future brain imag ...
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Date & Place:26 February 2010 - BBC news
Edinburgh Scientists probing a rare type of autism believe the "biological mechanism" behind the disorder may be simpler than was previously thought.
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Date & Place:26 February 2010 - ScienceDaily press release
A paralyzed patient implanted with a brain-computer interface device has allowed scientists to determine the relationship between brain waves and attention.
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Date & Place:24 February 2010 - EurekAlert! press release
New research shows childhood stress such as abuse or emotional neglect can result in structural brain changes
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Date & Place:24 February 2010 - ScienceDaily press release
The human brain is a big believer in equality -- and a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, has become the first to gathe ...
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Date & Place:24 February 2010 - ScienceDaily press release
People can reduce their sensitivity to pain by thickening their brain, according to a new study published in a special issue of the American Psychological Association journal, Emotion.
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Date & Place:24 February 2010 - Scientific American Mind&Brain blog
By KATHERINE HARMON - Remember the last time that something a friend did caught you off guard?
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Date & Place:24 February 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press release)
Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have found that elevated cerebrospinal fluid levels of phosphorylated tau231 (P-tau231), a damaged tau protein found in patients with Alzheimer's disease, may b ...
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Date & Place:23 February 2010 - Forbes, The Science Business Blog
By MATTHEW HERPER - Ten prototypes of a new, very fast DNA sequencing machine have been sold to customers including Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University and the crop giant Monsanto, for ...
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Date & Place:23 February 2010 - BBC news
Stephen Fry is encouraging people with bipolar disorder to take part in a university's research into how genes can contribute to the illness.
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Date & Place:22 February 2010 - BBC news
A Belgian man who stunned the world last year by apparently communicating after 23 years in a coma cannot in fact do so, researchers say.
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Date & Place:22 February 2010 - PhysOrg.com (Press release)
The ability to recognise faces is largely determined by your genes, according to new research at UCL (University College London).
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Date & Place:21 February 2010 - BBC news
By VICTORIA GILL - Teaching stroke patients to sing "rewires" their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists.
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Date & Place:21 February 2010 - Telegraph news
Sleepless nights may actually shrink your brain, according to a new study.
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Date & Place:19 February 2010 - Science news
Chinese neuroscientists seeking to recruit subjects for a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder last December came away empty-h ...
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Date & Place:17 February 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press Release)
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a method for analysing MR images (MRI) in just a few minutes when diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.
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Date & Place:17 February 2010 - EurekAlert! (Press Release)
It's no wonder attractive human faces are everywhere in media and advertising - when we see those faces, our brains are constantly computing how much the experiences are worth to us. New brain-imagi ...
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Date & Place:16 February 2010 - ScienceDaily (press release)
Harnessing brain signals to control keyboards, robots or prosthetic devices is an active area of medical research.
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Date & Place:16 February 2010 - Newsweek news
By BARBARA KANTROWITZ AND PAT WINGER - How science is unraveling the differences between women and men.
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Date & Place:15 February 2010 - Telegraph news
By KATE DEVLIN - Scientists have uncovered a new gene linked to form of dementia which affects thousands of people in Britain.
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Date & Place:15 February 2010 - NewScientist news
By EWEN CALLAWAY - A GENE variant that ups your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in old age may not be all bad.
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Date & Place:13 February 2010 - Timeonline news
By MELANIE REID - A genetic defect that causes children to dislike being hugged and sometimes reject all physical affection is closer to being understood following research into the sensory part of ...
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Date & Place:12 February 2010 - CNN news
By ELIZABETH LANDAU - Poets, novelists and songwriters have described it in countless turns of phrase, but at the level of biology, love is all about chemicals.
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Date & Place:10 February 2010 - Business Wire news
Fully updated second annual industry insider report detailing markets and emerging diagnostics in neurology and psychiatry.
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Date & Place:10 February 2010 - ScienceNews article
By NATHAN SEPPA - Defects in three genes found in a portion of cases
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Date & Place:10 February 2010 - Scientific American news
By CHRISTIE NICHOLSON - Scientists found a way to detect the order of activity in two regions of the brain using fMRI. And they found that the brain can register something as highly emotional befor ...
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Date & Place:09 February 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press Release)
Scientists have determined that a new instrument known as PIB-PET is effective in detecting deposits of amyloid-beta protein plaques in the brains of living people, and that these deposits are pred ...
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Date & Place:08 February 2010 - EurekAlert! (Press Release)
A new tool may help standardize the use of computed tomography (CT scans) in children with minor head injury and help reduce the number of scans, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical ...
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Date & Place:06 February 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press Release)
Fewer African Americans than Caucasians develop multiple sclerosis (MS), statistics show, but their disease progresses more rapidly, and they don't respond as well to therapies, a new study by neur ...
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Date & Place:05 February 2010 - Psychiatric Times news
By ARLINE KAPLAN - Recent multiple brain imaging studies of patients with restricting-type anorexia nervosa (AN) reveal neurocircuit dysregulation and may help clarify the disorder's confounding sy ...
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Date & Place:05 February 2010 - This is London news
By SOPHIE GOODCHILD - Patients in London and the South-East face vastly differing treatment times after suffering strokes at weekends.
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Date & Place:03 February 2010 - New York Times news
By BENEDICT CAREY - Study finds activity in brain that seems to be shut down.
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Date & Place:03 February 2010 - CNN news
By ELIZABETH LANDAU - Now the highest-grossing film ever, "Avatar," has captivated millions of viewers with its picturesque scenery, extraterrestrial battles, and nature-loving, blue-skinned aliens ...
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Date & Place:02 February 2010 - Scientific American news
By KAMILA E. SIP & DAVID CARMEL - A new study suggests that brain activity may give away dishonest intent.
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Date & Place:01 February 2010 - New Scientist article
By DANIEL ELKAN - TWO polar bears are perched on a block of floating ice. One says to the other: "Do you know, I keep thinking it's Thursday..."
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Date & Place:30 January 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press Release)
Investigators from the International Center for Biomedicine and the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Center for Bioinformatics of the Universidad de Talca, have discovered that two dru ...
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Date & Place:29 January 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press Release)
Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and, ultimately, their lives.
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Date & Place:28 January 2010 - Eureka! Science News (Press Release)
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have performed the first complete genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line, a discovery that may lead to personalized treatments.
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Date & Place:28 January 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Taking a break after learning something you remember it, scientists claim.
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Date & Place:27 January 2010 - Reuters (Press Release)
Plan is to make smaller, easier-to-maintain machines.
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Date & Place:24 January 2010 - ScienceDaily press release
What if a jury could decide a man's guilt through mind reading?
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Date & Place:22 January 2010 - Wired news
By TIA GHOSE - Removing a chunk of the skull can make way for stronger, clearer signals from a common method of monitoring brainwaves.
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Date & Place:22 January 2010 - Scientific American news
By CARINA STORRS - Researchers use a brain-scanning technique to find differences in the neural connections of PTSD patients that could help researchers understand and treat the disorder.
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Date & Place:22 January 2010 - BBC news
A health board has apologised to a man who was wrongly diagnosed as a likely sufferer of a hereditary brain condition.
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Date & Place:19 January 2010 - EurekAlert! press release
An international consortium of scientists, led by H. Lundbeck A/S and King's College London, has launched one of the largest ever research academic-industry collaboration projects to find new metho ...
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Date & Place:17 January 2010 - ScienceDaily press release
An international team of doctors and human geneticists has identified a new genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease.
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Date & Place:14 January 2010 - BBC news
A simple eye test might be able to detect Alzheimer's and other diseases before symptoms develop, according to UK scientists.
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Date & Place:14 January 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press release)
Current Alzheimer's disease (AD) research indicates that accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) protein plaques in the brain is central to the development of AD.
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Date & Place:14 January 2010 - Los Angeles Times blog Booster Shots
By KAREN KAPLAN - Last year, we wrote about a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that asked whether the children of Alzheimer's patients should find out whether they were genetically predi ...
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Date & Place:13 January 2010 - Telegraph news
By REBECCA SMITH - Hope of a new treatment for Alzheimer's were raised after scientists discover a 'longevity gene' that protects against the disease.
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Date & Place:12 January 2010 - CBS news
By JONATHAN LAPOOK - One in eight Americans over age 65 will eventually develop Alzheimer's disease.
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Date & Place:11 January 2010 - Business Week news
Early identification then leads to better treatment, researchers say
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Date & Place:11 January 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press release)
A team of neurosurgeons at Heidelberg University Hospital and psychiatrists at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim have for the first time successfully treated a patient suffering from ...
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Date & Place:09 January 2010 - ScienceDaily (Press release)
Scientists have identified a gene underlying a disease that causes temporary paralysis of skeletal muscle.
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Date & Place:08 January 2010 - Time news
By MAIA SZALAVITZ - It's hardly a secret that taking cocaine can change the way you feel and the way you behave.
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Date & Place:08 January 2010 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Children could be screened for autism at an early age after scientists developed a way to recognise the condition using brain scans.
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Date & Place:06 January 2010 - EurekAlert (Press release)
A new type of brain scan, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), appears to be better at detecting whether a person with memory loss might have brain changes of Alzheimer's disease, according to a n ...
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Date & Place:05 January 2010 - Scientific American article
By SUSAN WHITFIELD-GABRIELI and JOHN GABRIELI - When smarter people's brains are scanned while "at rest," long-distance connections appear stronger
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Date & Place:01 January 2010 - Science Perspectives
By D. SAM SCHWARZKOPF and GERAINT REES - The human brain is a noisy place. The responses of single neurons to sensory stimuli are highly variable. Yet our conscious experience of the environment is ...
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Date & Place:24 December 2009 - ScienceDaily (Press release)
A team of Columbia scientists have discovered two genes that, when simultaneously activated, are responsible for the most aggressive forms of human brain cancer.
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Date & Place:22 December 2009 - Scientific American article
By DANIEL BOR - Can a brain scanner decode your inner thoughts?
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Date & Place:22 December 2009 - Telegraph news
By RICHARD ALLEYNE - Researchers found that around one in three people actually feel physical discomfort when they see someone else in agony.
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Date & Place:21 December 2009 - Scientific American Observations
By CARINA STORRS - Clinical depression can zap the pleasure out of an enjoyable meal or the thrill out of winning a prize, among other symptoms.
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Date & Place:15 December 2009 - The Washington Post article
By KATHERINE ELLISON - Neurofeedback is marketed as a powerful therapy, capable of temporarily or even permanently changing your brain.
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Date & Place:15 December 2009 - EurekAlert! (Press Release)
Persons with higher levels of leptin, a protein hormone produced by fat cells and involved in the regulation of appetite, may have an associated reduced incidence of Alzheimer disease and dementia, ...
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Date & Place:15 December 2009 - The Guardian article
By LUCY ATKINS - Could Gamma Knife, a non-invasive brain surgery using radiation, help OCD sufferers who can't be helped by more established treatments?
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Date & Place:15 December 2009 - Chicago Tribune news
By THOMAS H. MAUGH II - Machines will kill up to 15,000 yearly, experts say.
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Date & Place:14 December 2009 - National Institutes of Health (Press Release)
For people free of dementia, abnormal deposits of a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease are associated with increased risk of developing the symptoms of the progressive brain disorder, accor ...
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Date & Place:10 December 2009 - EurekAlert! (Press Release)
Researchers have discovered a new explanation for differences in the severity of mental illness in males.
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Date & Place:09 December 2009 - CNN news
By ELIZABETH LANDAU - Psychological trauma may leave a visible trace in a child's brain, scientists say.
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Date & Place:09 December 2009 - ScienceDaily (press release)
A key brain protein called monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) -- is highly elevated during clinical depression yet is unaffected by treatment with commonly used antidepressants...
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Date & Place:09 December 2009 - EurekAlert! (Press Release)
Scientists have demonstrated that intensive remedial instruction can bring about a positive change in the brain connectivity of poor readers.
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Date & Place:09 December 2009 - Wired news
By BRANDON KEIM - A system that turns brain waves into FM radio signals and decodes them as sound is the first totally wireless brain-computer interface.
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Date & Place:08 December 2009 - TIME special
By ALICE PARK - TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year.
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Date & Place:07 December 2009 - New York Times news
By WALT BOGDANICH - The number of hospitals where suspected stroke patients were over-radiated while undergoing CT scans has risen...
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Date & Place:04 December 2009 - EurekAlert! (Press Release)
A new study published this week in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics finds that operative plans for removing Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, or JPA, tumors in the thalamus of the brain can be ...
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Date & Place:03 December 2009 - Telegraph news
Date & Place:03 December 2009 - CNN news
By ELIZABETH LANDAU - Henry Molaison, known as H.M. in scientific literature, was perhaps the most famous patient in all of brain science in the 20th century.
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Date & Place:03 December 2009 - Physorg.com (Press Release)
How can some sportsmen and women, in the heat of the moment, play on through pain that would floor anyone else?
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Date & Place:30 November 2009 - BBC news
By JANE ELLIOTT - Baby Miller makes his first appearance on screen.
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Date & Place:30 November 2009 - Reuters (Press Release)
Cocaine addicts can control their cravings by willpower alone, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study that suggests the right training may help abusers kick the habit.
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Date & Place:30 November 2009 - New York Times interview
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS - Laurence Steinberg, a developmental psychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, is one of the leading experts in the United States on adolescent behavior and adolescent ...
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Date & Place:25 November 2009 - Telegraph news
Scientists have identified a gene which could be responsible for depression, bipolar disorders and schizophrenia.
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Date & Place:24 November 2009 - Scientific American feature
By R. DOUGLAS FIELDS - Practice makes perfect, but how? Two groups of neuroscientists using MRI brain imaging announced last month that they were able to see changes inside the brains of people afte ...
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Date & Place:23 November 2009 - BBC news
Scientists have pinpointed a mutated gene as key to the development of some types of glioma brain tumour.
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Date & Place:23 November 2009 - BBC news
A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was conscious all along, it has been revealed.
A brain scan finally revealed Houben was conscious.
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Date & Place:18 November 2009 - EurekAlert! press release
Structural changes may help offset loss of vision and strengthen other senses.
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Date & Place:16 November 2009 - Science Daily press release
In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying s ...
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Date & Place:16 November 2009 - Boston Globe Health Answers
By JUDY FOREMAN -
Q. Is there any way to predict the onset of schizophrenia?
A. There may be a way of predicting which teenagers at high risk...
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Date & Place:16 November 2009 - NIH press release
International study reveals common gene variants in people of European descent.
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Date & Place:12 November 2009 - New Scientist news
By ANIL ANANTHASWAMY - A telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step closer to disentangling the brain activity underlying conscious and unconscious brain processes. ...
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Date & Place:12 November 2009 - European Hospital news
The campaign for an amendment to the electromagnetic fields directive.
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Date & Place:12 November 2009 - Times Online news
By WILL PAVIA - The power to peer inside the human body was discovered by accident in November 1895 when a German physicist was experimenting with electrons in vacuum tube.
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Date & Place:10 November 2009 - Behavioural Neurology:Special Issue
In a special issue of the journal Behavioural Neurology, twelve contributions from an international group of researchers discuss imaging techniques that may contribute to early diagnosis and advance ...
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Date & Place:09 November 2009 - The Guardian article
By MARCUS MUNAFO and JONATHAN FLINT - Don't believe everything you read about genes and disease in prestigious journals like Science and Nature, say Marcus Munafò and Jonathan Flint. A lot of it is ...
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Date & Place:06 November 2009 - NewScientist news
By EWEN CALLaWAY - As players who stay up all night fighting imaginary warriors demonstrate, slipping into the skin of an avatar, and inhabiting a virtual world can be riveting stuff. But to what e ...
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Date & Place:06 November 2009 - Chicago Tribune news
By TED GREGORY AND ART BARNUM - Neuroscientist testifies that brain-imaging technique shows Dugan to be among the most psychopathic of people.
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Date & Place:05 November 2009 - Nature news
By LIZZIE BUCHEN - A treatment based on HIV finds first success in humans.
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Date & Place:03 November 2009 - Science Daily press release
Thanks to a new method, there is a reason for hope for patients with very severe depression. Physicians at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne have treated ten patients with deep brain stimul ...
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Date & Place: 30 October 2009 - Nature news
By EMILIANO FERESIN - Italian court reduces jail term after tests identify genes linked to violent behaviour.
more on this from NewScientist
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Date & Place:29 October 2009 - Wired news
By ALEXIS MADRIGAL - Next time you get cut off by a another driver, consider giving the offender a break: One-third of Americans might be genetically predisposed to crappy driving.
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Date & Place:28 October 2009 - Nature news feature
By ERIK VANCE - Sean Mackey inflicts pain on people in the hope of learning how to relieve it. Erik Vance gets on the receiving end.
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Date & Place:24 October 2009 - Times Online news
By HANNAH DEVLIN - It's every smoker's dread - discovering that your genes, as well as your behaviour, put you in the highest category of risk for lung cancer.
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Date & Place:22 October 2009 - Forbes news
By REBECCA RUIZ - Should you get a brain MRI even if you have no symptoms of disease?
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Date & Place:21 October 2009 - Los Angeles Times news
By THOMAS H. MAUGH II - People who carry the gene for a rare genetic problem known as Gaucher disease have at least five times the normal risk of developing Parkinson's disease, researchers reported ...
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Date & Place:20 October 2009 - BBC news
By MARCUS DU SAUTOY - Over the last few months I have been on an extraordinary journey to find out what makes me "me".
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Date & Place:18 October 2009 - BBC webcast
By DUNCAN KENNEDY - A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed to be the first artificial hand that has feeling.
It has been attached to the arm of a 22-year-o ...
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Date & Place:16 October 2009 - Science Editorial on special issue
By ATSUSHI MIYAWAKI - A convergence of diverse disciplines is fueling the expansion of neuroscience research, and underpinning this growth are increasingly advanced technologies such as high-perform ...
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Date & Place:16 October 2009 - Times online news
By HANNAH DEVLIN - If you thought the placebo effect was all in the mind, think again. Scientists have solved the mystery of why some people benefit from remedies that do not contain any active pain ...
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Date & Place:15 October 2009 - Nature news feature
By ALLISON ABBOTT - Neurosurgeons have unparalleled access to the human brain. Now they are teaming up with basic researchers to work out what makes it unique, finds Alison Abbott.
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Date & Place:15 October 2009 - New Scientist news
By SHANTA BARLEY - A flash of laser light can alter the brains of fruit flies so that they learn to fear pain that they never actually felt. Gero Miesenböck at the University of Oxford and his colle ...
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Date & Place:15 October 2009 - Wired news
By BRANDON KEIM - A rare set of high-resolution readouts taken directly from the wired-in brains of epileptics has provided an unprecedented look at how the brain processes language.
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Date & Place:14 October 2009 - Scientific American observations
By KATHERINE HARMON - Advanced dementia has often been treated as an amalgamation of symptoms in the aging, rather than a deadly illness in itself. A new study, published online today in The New Eng ...
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Date & Place:14 October 2009 - AFP press release
A gene therapy for Parkinson's disease that has been tested on lab monkeys is showing good early results in a small-scale trial on humans, French researchers said on Wednesday.
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Date & Place:14 October 2009 - New Scientist news
By EWEN CALLAWAY - An attention deficit, rather than an inability to feel emotion, may be what makes psychopathic individuals seem fearless. It's a finding that challenges the common characterisatio ...
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Date & Place:12 October 2009 - BBC news
Complex tasks such as juggling produce significant changes to the structure of the brain, according to scientists at Oxford University.
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Date & Place:08 October 2009 - Nature news feature
By KELLY RAE CHI - Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic clues to disease. Kelly Rae Chi looks at three to see just how on-target the approach seems to be.
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Date & Place:7 October 2009 - ScienceDaily PRESS RELEASE
In one of the first studies of its kind, an international team of researchers has uncovered a single-letter change in the genetic code that is associated with autism.
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Date & Place:06 October 2009 - BBC NEWS
It is possible to pinpoint the area of the brain that is activated when a person suffers from tinnitus, according to US doctors.
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Date & Place:04 October 2009 UNC Health Care press release
The finding suggests that a single gene, called GSK-3, controls the signals that determine how many neurons actually end up composing the brain. This has important implications for patients with neu ...
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Date & Place:05 October 2009 - U.S. News & World Report news
Brain tumor patients experience more learning and memory problems when whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) is added to standard stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), researchers have found.
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Date & Place:05 October 2009 - Discover Magazine article
By KATHLEEN MCGOWAN - Brain researchers have found the sources of many of our darkest thoughts, from envy to wrath.
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Date & Place:02 October 2009 - BBC news
By VICTORIA GILL - In the journal Current Biology, the researchers described how their finding shows that brain waves directly affect human behaviour. The results also reveal clues about movement ...
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Date & Place:02 October 2009 - Newsweek blog Human Condition
By KATE DAILEY - The rapidly expanding field of neuroimaging brings new meaning to the adage "A picture says a thousand words." Newly released, The Human Brain Book combines incredible brain imag ...
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Date & Place:25 October 2009 - Times Online news
By MARK HENDERSON - Patients taking statins for high cholesterol are to be offered genetic tests in a study to assess whether their DNA influences their risk of serious side-effects.
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Date & Place:21 Sep 2009 Telegraph health news
By KATE DEVLIN - The breakthrough could suggest which patients have the potential to recover from their injuries or illness, researchers said.
more from Scientific American
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Date & Place:23 September 2009 - Wired news
By CURTIS SILVER - When we sit down in a movie theater and see a film for the first time, we think we know how we react to that film. In reality, we have no clue as to how our brains are actually pr ...
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Date & Place:16 September 2009 - BBC news
Scientists say they are a step closer to curing colour blindness using gene therapy.
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Date & Place:16 September 2009 - New Scientist news
By ANDY COGHLAN - Human brains light up when they see tools being used - but the sight fails to impress the brains of macaque monkey, our fellow primates, in the same way.
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Date & Place:15 September 2009 - ScienceDaily press release
A substantial percentage of children who get CT scans after apparently minor head trauma do not need them, and as a result are put at increased risk of cancer due to radiation exposure.
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Date & Place:15 September 2009 - EurekAlert press release
Press conference at the 22nd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept. 15, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Date & Place:10 September 2009 - Physorg.com press release
New images from the world's most powerful magnetic resonance imaging machine, the 9.4-Tesla MRI at the University of Illinois at Chicago, are opening radical new possibilities for the diagnosis and ...
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Date & Place:12 September 2009 - New Scientist news
By KURT KLEINER - SMART implants in the brains of people with neurological disorders could eventually help develop treatments for people with Parkinson's disease, depression and obsessive compulsive ...
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Date & Place:10 September 2009 - Scientific American news
By KATHERINE HARMNON - A long-held model of the brain's efficiency crumbles as researchers find that one function of mammals' brains consumes a lot less energy than previously assumed. Now, basic me ...
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Date & Place:09 September 2009 - Wired news
By BRANDOM KEIM - For anyone who's ever forgotten something or someone they wish they could remember, a bit of solace: Though the memory is hidden from your conscious mind, it might not be gone.
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Date & Place:09 September 2009 - New Scientist article
By ANDY COGHLAN - GENES that increase the risk of Alzheimer's and a blood protein that speeds up cognitive decline are radically changing our view of the devastating illness.
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Date & Place:08 September 2009 - BBC news
US researchers have pinned down new differences in the brain chemistry of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Date & Place:08 September 2009 - Scientific American article
By LISE ELIOT - The two are not the same, but new work shows just how wrong it is to assume that all gender differences are hardwired
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Date & Place:07 September 2009 - Nature news
By ALISON ABBOTT - Court prevents host from pulling the plug on cash-strapped Italian research lab.
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Date & Place:07 September 2009 - BBC news
By ADRIAN OWEN - Brain training is a billion dollar industry, but does it actually work? The BBC is launching Britain's biggest ever brain training experiment to find out.
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Date & Place:06 September 2009 - New York Times news
By NICHOLAS WADE - Two teams of European scientists say they have discovered new genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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Date & Place:03 September 2009 - Physorg.com
A new study has voiced concern about the growing market for brain screening tests, which people can buy as part of a general health MOT.
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Date & Place:01 September 2009 - China Daily news
A new research revealed an acute impact of China's Wenchuan 8.0 earthquake on the brain function of its survivors, which also poses a risk to their mental health, a report said on Monday.
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Date & Place:01 September 2009 - New Scientist Opinion
By NIC FLEMING - Robotics expert Noel Sharkey used to be a believer in artificial intelligence. So why does he now think that AI is a dangerous myth that could lead to a dystopian future of unintell ...
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Date & Place:01 September 2009 - New Scientist article
By SUNNY BAINS - A MONKEY sits on a bench, wires running from its head and wrist into a small box of electronics. At first the wrist lies limp, but within 10 minutes the monkey begins to flex its m ...
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Date & Place:31 August 2009 - United Press International
Patients demanding more investigative procedures are part of the reason for increasing radiological imaging tests, researchers in Norway say.
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Date & Place:31 August 2009 - Reuters blog FaithWorld
By TOM HENEGHAN - Several comments on this and other blogs express surprise that the Reuters blog on religion, faith and ethics should be interested in neuroscience.
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Date & Place:31 August 2009 - New Scientist article
By TOM SIMONITE - If you want to know how people will interact with machines in the future, head for a hospital.
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Date & Place:30 August 2009 - ScienceDaily press release
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a technique widely used in studying the human brain. However, it has long been unclear exactly how fMRI signals are generated at brain cell level.
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Date & Place:30 August 2009 - ScienceDaily press release
For over a century, scientists have been using electrical stimulation to explore and treat the human brain.
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Date & Place:30 August 2009 - Los Angeles Times article
By SHARI ROAN - You know that uncomfortable feeling when someone is encroaching on your personal space?
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Date & Place:27 August 2009 - US News & World News Report news
Scans show that treatment regulates brain's pain centers, researchers say.
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Date & Place:26 August 2009 - EurekAlert! press release
A new study reveals that when it comes to pain control, the "placebo effect" involves evolutionarily old pain control pathways in the human brainstem, the part of the brain that is continuous with t ...
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Date & Place:26 August 2009 - Time news
By ALICE PARK - One of the many tragedies of Alzheimer's disease is that patients don't know until it's too late that they actually have the condition.
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Date & Place:25 August 2009 - Forbes article
By MICHAEL L. ANDERSON - How Diffusion Tensor Imaging lets us delve deeper into the workings of the cortex.
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Date & Place:25 August 2009 - Scientific American news
By ROBERT EPSTEIN and JENNIFER ONG - Countering conventional wisdom, a brain-imaging study finds that, in risk-taking teens, the brain's white matter looks like that of an adult.
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Date & Place:21 August 2009 - U.S.News & World Report news
Using scans, researchers spot changes in the way the brain responds to music.
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Date & Place:18 August 2009 - Wired Danger Room
By KATIE DRUMMOND - The military is struggling to address a surge in mental health problems being reported among returning soldiers.
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Date & Place:18 August 2009 - Telegraph.co.uk news
A broken heart really does hurt, scientists claim.
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Date & Place:18 August 2009 - InjuryBoard article
By DAVID MITTLEMAN - Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is an incredibly useful diagnostic tool.
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Date & Place:18 August 2009 - h+ Magazine interview
By SURFDADDY ORCA - An Interview with Zack Lynch, author of 'The Neuro Revolution'.
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Date & Place:18 August 2009 - Science Daily press release
An international group of researchers is the first to show that common variations in a gene - previously shown to be associated with Retts Syndrome, autism, and mental retardation - are associated w ...
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Date & Place:14 August 2009 - Brain Blogger article
By JOSEPH ZENI - Imagine having the ability to turn on the television and change the channel without using a remote control. Or better yet, imagine navigating the internet and sending emails using j ...
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Date & Place:13 August 2009 - Science Daily press release
Sounds and images share a similar neural code in the human brain, according to a new Canadian study.
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Date & Place:13 August 2009 - Science Daily press release
Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, investigated the effects of formal education on the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
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Date & Place:13 August 2009 - Telegraph.co.uk news
By KATE DEVLIN - Researchers said that the therapy, which could help thousands of people, appeared to cause "stable" improvement and triggered patients' brains to adapt.
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Date & Place:13 August 2009 - Nature news
By ELIE DOLGIN - Bioethicists argue for stricter rules at genetic repositories.
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Date & Place:13 August 2009 - The New York Times news
By TARA PARKER-POPE - Researchers have found a genetic mutation in two people who need far less sleep than average, a discovery that might open the door to understanding human sleep patterns and lea ...
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Date & Place:12 August 2009 - ScienceNews news
By JENNY LAUREN LEE - Blind and sighted subjects sort the living from the nonliving in the same way.
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Date & Place:10 August 2009 - Los Angeles Times news
By MELISSA HEALY - High-tech images of the brains of chronic pain sufferers have found that the ancient practice of acupuncture fights pain by making key brain cells more sensitive to the pain-dampe ...
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Date & Place:09 August 2009 - CBS webcast
By SCOTT PELLEY - People who are completely paralyzed due to illness or trauma are getting help communicating with a new technology that connects their brains to a computer. Scott Pelley reports.
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Date & Place:08 August 2009 - Science Daily press release
UCLA researchers have uncovered a new way to scan brain tumors and predict which ones will be shrunk by the drug Avastin -- before the patient ever starts treatment
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Date & Place:03 August 2009 - Los Angeles Times feature
By SHARI ROAN - The technology is 'close to a miracle,' a psychologist says. Can it work for little Tyler de Lara?
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Date & Place:03 August 2009 - New Scientist news
By COLIN BARRAS -Epilepsy may be sparked by a metal imbalance in the brain caused by a single gene mutation, a study in mice suggests.
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Date & Place:03 August 2009 - Times news
By MARK HENDERSON - A difference between the brains of psychopaths and ordinary people has been identified in a study that could promise new approaches to diagnosing and treating the disorder.
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Date & Place:03 August 2009 - Newswise press release
Brain cancer is among the deadliest of cancers. It's also one of the hardest to treat. Imaging results are often imprecise because brain cancers are extremely invasive. Surgeons must saw through th ...
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Date & Place:03 August 2009 - Los Angeles Times news
By DEVON SCHUYLER - A good way to speed up the process of finding an effective antidepressant would be to learn sooner whether a particular drug was going to work.
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Date & Place:31 July 2009 - Telegraph.co.uk news
By DANIELLE DEMETRIOU - Japanese scientists have devised a technique to capture the first high resolution photographs of the human body's outer nervous system.
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Date & Place:31 July 2009 - Europa.eu headlines
Researchers in Sweden are breaking boundaries in the field of nerve cell communication. The group is creating the first artificial nerve cell capable of communicating with human nerve cells.
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Date & Place:29 July 2009 - New Scientist news
By CAROLINE WILLIAMS - The smell of the sweat you produce when terrified is not only registered by the brains of others, but changes their behaviour too, according to new research. It adds to a grow ...
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Date & Place:29 July 2009 - CBC news
Combining regular memory and other cognitive tests and MRI scans may help doctors to identify which people with inactive or benign multiple sclerosis will soon develop the disabling disease, a study ...
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Date & Place:28 July 2009 - American Institute of Physics
The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision.
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Date & Place:28 July 2009 - New Scientist news
By EWEN CALLAWAY - Singers and guitar heroes alike have always employed what you might call the Celine Dion effect - closing your eyes to heighten the emotional impact of music.
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Date & Place:23 July 2009 - BBC news
By JONATHAN FILDES - A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.
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Date & Place:21 July 2009 - The New York Times news
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE - Learning to move a computer cursor or robotic arm with nothing but thoughts can be no different from learning how to play tennis or ride a bicycle, according to a new study of ...
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Date & Place:21 July 2009 - Time news
By ADI NARAYAN - It would seem that being honest is an absolute, undebatable state. A person is either truthful or he's not. Right?
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Date & Place:20 July 2009 - BBC news
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of how a girl with half a brain has near perfect vision in one eye.
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Date & Place:17 July 2009 - Newsweek news
By SHARON BEGLEY - One surprising new treatment calls the conventional wisdom into question.
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Date & Place:17 July 2009 - MTB Europe news
More effective medical imaging to help diagnose and treat patients with Alzheimer's, stroke, cancer and other conditions is one of the key goals of SINAPSE, a major Scottish research network.
...
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Date & Place:16 July 2009 - guardian news
A new study has looked at how people react when they have genetic testing to find out their risk of Alzheimer's.
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Date & Place:16 July 2009 - cnn news
By ANNE HARDING - People with a gene variant that sharply increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease in old age may show memory impairment earlier than thought -sometimes well before their 60th birth ...
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Date & Place:16 July 2009 - Nanowerk news
By MICHAEL BERGER - A recently released study commissioned by the European Parliament attempts to bridge the gap between visions on human enhancement (HE) and the relevant technoscientific developme ...
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Date & Place:15 July 2009 - Forbes.com news
By JONATHAN FAHEY - Researchers build implants that help restore patients' sense of balance.
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Date & Place:15 July 2009 - U.S. News & World Report article
By SARAH BALDAUF - Patients who struggle to beat back the demons of depression have another option that is creating serious interest among clinicians and researchers.
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Date & Place:14 July 2009 - ICAD press release
New Results from ADNI Data Bring Us Closer to Earlier Detection of Alzheimer's.
related: patients' association comment
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Date & Place:13 July 2009 - The Wall Street Journal news
By SHIRLEY S. WANG - New research has pinpointed a gene that could improve predictions of who will develop Alzheimer's and at what age.
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Date & Place:9 July 2009 - Wired news
By HADLEY LEGGETT - Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they'll try to take over your brain.
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Date & Place:06 July 2009
Genetic warning signs of an increased risk of the commonest kind of brain cancer have been discovered.
- source: BBC
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Date & Place:03 July 2009
People who have a particular gene flaw and live alone in middle-age are at highest risk of developing dementia, researchers suggest.
- source: BBC
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Date & Place:02 July 2009
Scientists have identified thousands of tiny genetic variations which together could account for more than a third of the inherited risk of schizophrenia.
- source: BBC
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Date & Place:01 July 2009
The brain is not an equal opportunities organ, it seems. An imaging study of Chinese and Caucasian people has found that their brains respond less strongly to the pain of strangers whose ethnicity i ...
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Date & Place:28 June 2009
Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. ...
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Date & Place:24 June 2009
Migraine headaches suffered by one in 10 women may inflict long-term damage to a part of the brain important to coordination and the senses, researchers said on Tuesday.
- source: Reuters
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Date & Place:23 June 2009
When you brush your teeth, the toothbrush may actually become part of your arm - at least as far as your brain is concerned. That's the conclusion of a study showing perceptions of arm length change ...
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Date & Place:16 June 2009
For the first time, researchers have proved the rapid changes that drinking alcohol causes in human brain cells.
- source: Telegraph (UK)
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Date & Place:15 June 2009
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered how the mutated huntingtin gene acts on the nervous system to create the devastation of Huntington's disease. ...
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Date & Place:12 June 2009
BrainGate moves to phase II testing as scientists search for a way to return life to paralyzed limbs
- source: Scientific American
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Date & Place:09 June 2009
Want to keep your wits sharp as the years go by? You're not alone.
- source: CNN
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Date & Place:09 June 2009
For decades scientists have tried, mostly in vain, to explain where intelligence resides in our brains. The answer, a new study suggests, is everywhere.
- source: New Scientist
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Date & Place:06 June 2009
Researchers identify protein that could lead to treatment or prevention
- source: Forbes.com
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Date & Place:27 May 2009
Doubt is being cast on the true role of brain neurons that are said to explain empathy, autism and even morality.
- source: New Scientist
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Date & Place:14 May 2009
WE ARE on the brink of technological breakthroughs that could augment our mental powers beyond recognition. It will soon be possible to boost human brainpower with electronic "plug-ins" or even by g ...
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Date & Place:07 May 2009
Free will, or at least the place where we decide to act, is sited in a part of the brain called the parietal cortex, new research suggests.
- source: New Scientist
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Date & Place:30 April 2009
Common genetic variations that can contribute to autism have been reliably identified for the first time in research that promises to improve the diagnosis and understanding of the disorder.
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Date & Place:24 April 2009
A doctoral student has developed a brain computer interface to post messages on Twitter. A trivial system for an innovative way of living?
- source: New Scientist
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Date & Place:23 April 2009
As early as one week after beginning treatment for brain tumors, a new imaging analysis method was able to predict which patients would live longer.
- source: Science Daily
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Date & Place:20 April 2009
Concerns have been raised about the use of the internet and new technologies to revolutionise health care.
- source: BBC News
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Date & Place:16 April 2009
The latest issue of Nature has a free "Technology Feature" on magnetic resonance imaging: Nathan Blow looks at the technology latest developments, focuses on the new contrast agents for MRI and prov ...
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Date & Place:13 April 2009
More than 2,000 computer scientists from around the world gathered in Boston last week (4-9 April) at Computer-Human Interaction 2009 to present the latest developments in the field of huma
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Date & Place:10 April 2009
A revolution in genome screening has been promised by a biotech company in the US.
- source: BBC news
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Date & Place:06 April 2009
Heightened activity in an area of the brain that deals with memory may give a subtle early warning of dementia decades later, UK research suggests.
- source: BBC news
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Date & Place:05 April 2009
Scientists have identified the seat of human wisdom by pinpointing parts of the brain that guide us when we face difficult moral dilemmas.
-source: Times Online, UK
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Date & Place:03 april 2009
Scientists say they are moving ever closer to being able to diagnose Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) using a brain scanner.
- source: BBC news
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Date & Place:26 March 2009
Two new techniques using different approaches to see molecular changes inside people's bodies could lead to faster, more detailed imaging scans that better detect health problems, researchers said o ...
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Date & Place:20 March 2009
Researchers have announced that a high-density genome wide analysis of participants in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative is more than 95% complete and that data will be shared with sci ...
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Date & Place:19 March 2009
By electrically stimulating the spinal cords of rodents, scientists have reversed some of the worst symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
- source: New York Times
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Date & Place:13 March 2009
EU-funded researchers have discovered a new genetic mutation that causes Alzheimer's disease in people who inherit it from both parents.
- source: Cordis News
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Date & Place:03 March 2009
Alessandra Chesi explains her recent findings on Parkinson's disease origin.
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Date & Place:27 February 2009
Researchers found a new gene, called ALS6, as responsible for about 5 percent of hereditary amytrophic lateral sclerosis or (ALS). ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and e ...
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Date & Place:26 February 2009
Scientists are unraveling some of the mechanisms behind the plaques in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
- source: Reuters
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Date & Place:19 February 2009
People with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder have a new treatment option available: The Food and Drug Administration has approved deep brain stimulation as a therapy for the disorder. ...
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Date & Place:18 February 2009
Swiss researchers assembled an innovative MRI machine that allows for greater resolution and better comfort for the scanned patient.
- source: National Geographic
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Date & Place:18 February 2009
Researchers from Boston found that middle-aged people are more likely to show poor memory performance if they have a parent with dementia or if they carry one or two copies of a gene, called ApoE4, ...
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Date & Place:15 February 2009
Watch CBS 60 MINUTES video on brain imaging's ability to link brain activity to certain thoughts. As Lesley Stahl reports, it may now be possible, on a basic level, to read a person's mind.
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Date & Place:19 January 2009
A 19-year old British student is back to normal life after losing his own hand in a car accident. Thanks to a fully functional prosthetic hand .
- source: Guardian
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Date & Place:14 January 2009
A hot debate on the science of brain imaging has emerged this week, as psychologist Hal Pashler at the University of California, San Diego has challenged the methods used by some neuroscientists. ...
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Date & Place:22 October 2008
The "Ottorino Rossi Award" awarded this year to philosopher Patricia Smith Churchland.
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Date & Place:12 September 2008
Starting line for deep-brain stimulation program for minimally conscious patients
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Date & Place:12 August 2009 - ScienceNews news
By JENNY LAUREN LEE - Blind and sighted subjects sort the living from the nonliving in the same way.
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