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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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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Test for early Alzheimer's in late development
(AP) -- A research institute devoted to Alzheimer's and related diseases has teamed up with a major maker of diagnostic tests to speed development of what could be the first test to detect Alzheimer's in its early stages.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 27, 2009 |
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New role for an old molecule: protecting the brain from epileptic seizures
For years brain scientists have puzzled over the shadowy role played by the molecule putrescine, which always seems to be present in the brain following an epileptic seizure, but without a clear indication whether it was ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 06, 2011 |
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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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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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Adding face shields to helmets could help avoid blast-induced brain injuries
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than half of all combat-related injuries sustained by U.S. troops are the result of explosions, and many of those involve injuries to the head. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Despite brain damage, working memory functions -- within limits
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Larry R. Squire, PhD, professor of psychiatry, psychology and neurosciences at UC San Diego and a scientist at the VA San Diego ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Life threatening breathing disorder of Rett syndrome prevented
A group of researchers at the University of Bristol have sequestered the potentially fatal breath holding episodes associated with the autistic-spectrum disorder Rett syndrome.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 04, 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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Understanding brain function could lead to breakthrough Alzheimer's treatment
Synaptic plasticity, one of the neurochemical foundations of learning and memory, is predominantly controlled by NMDA receptors. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is a neurological dysfunction caused ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 20, 2010 |
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The brain needs to remember faces in 3-dimensions
In our dynamic 3D world, we can encounter a familiar face from any angle and still recognize that face with ease, even if the person has, for example, changed his hair style. This is because our brain has used the 2D snapshots ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Research Shows Some May Be Wired for Wider Waists
(PhysOrg.com) -- Development of obesity may be predetermined by how neurons in the brain are plugged together. New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows that the amount of weight gained from ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Study opens the door to new class of drugs for epileptic seizures
A chemical compound that boosts the action of a molecule normally produced in the brain may provide the starting point for a new line of therapies for the treatment of epileptic seizures, according to a new study by scientists ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 29, 2010 |
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