News tagged with brain damage
Related topics: brain , brain injury , stroke , traumatic brain injury , brain tissue
Vegetative state patients may soon be able to communicate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Cambridge University in the UK have been able to communicate with brain-injured patients in "locked states" commonly referred to as persistent vegetative states (PVS). They ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Brain-controlled cursor doubles as a neural workout
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harnessing brain signals to control keyboards, robots or prosthetic devices is an active area of medical research. Now a rare peek at a human brain hooked up to a computer shows that the two ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Stroke gene discovered
A Dutch-German medical research team led by Harald Schmidt from Maastricht University, Netherlands, and Christoph Kleinschnitz, University of Wurzburg, Germany, has discovered that an enzyme is responsible for the death of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Mystery solved: Tiny protein-activator responsible for brain cell damage in Huntington disease
Johns Hopkins brain scientists have figured out why a faulty protein accumulates in cells everywhere in the bodies of people with Huntington's disease (HD), but only kills cells in the part of the brain that controls movement, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Scientist haunted by misuse of drugs he invented
David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Human brains grow, change and can heal themselves
By the time Scott Hayner of Highland Park, Texas, was 7, he had had one skull fracture and three major concussions from falling off horses.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Piece from childhood virus may save soldiers' lives
A harmless shard from the shell of a common childhood virus may halt a biological process that kills a significant percentage of battlefield casualties, heart attack victims and oxygen-deprived newborns, according to research ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 06, 2009 |
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Researchers reverse stroke damage by jumpstarting nerve fibers
A new technique that jumpstarts the growth of nerve fibers could reverse much of the damage caused by strokes, researchers report in the Jan. 7, 2011 issue of the journal Stroke.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 07, 2010 |
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How red wine may shield brain from stroke damage
Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have discovered the way in which red wine consumption may protect the brain from damage following a stroke.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Miracle Aussie baby beats rare condition in world first
A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 05, 2009 |
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How dark chocolate may guard against brain injury from stroke
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that a compound in dark chocolate may protect the brain after a stroke by increasing cellular signals already known to shield nerve cells from damage.
May 05, 2010 |
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Rewiring a damaged brain
Researchers in the Midwest are developing microelectronic circuitry to guide the growth of axons in a brain damaged by an exploding bomb, car crash or stroke. The goal is to rewire the brain connectivity and bypass the region ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 27, 2010 |
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New study finds early Alzheimer's identification method
Abnormal brain images combined with examination of the composition of the fluid that surrounds the spine may offer the earliest signs identifying healthy older adults at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, well before ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 09, 2010 |
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Nurse filmed accidentally switching off Briton's ventilator
A nurse was secretly filmed accidentally switching off a tetraplegic British man's life-support machine, leaving him with brain damage, the BBC reported Monday as it showed the footage.
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Fishy fight-or-flight response may hold answers to human nerve damage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Alberta are looking to the tiny zebrafish for a way to regenerate damaged nerve cells in people.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 17, 2009 |
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