News tagged with brain lesions

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Aquatic ecologist studies silent killer of bald eagles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Something is killing American bald eagles, and Susan Wilde is determined to find out what. An assistant professor in the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New evidence of interhuman aggression and human induced trauma 126,000 years ago

The study of a cranium of an East Asian human from the late Middle Pleistocene age from Maba, China, brings to the fore evidence that interhuman aggression and human induced trauma occurred 126,000 years ago.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Learning to see consciously

Our brains process many more stimuli than we become aware of. Often images enter our brain without being noticed: visual information is being processed, but does not reach consciousness, that is, we do not ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is it Alzheimer's? Maybe not

Alicia Harper spent years as a missionary, working in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, but she faced her greatest challenge six years ago when, at age 69, her mind and body began to falter.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alzheimer's disease may be easily misdiagnosed

New research shows that Alzheimer's disease and other dementing illnesses may be easily misdiagnosed in the elderly, according to early results of a study of people in Hawaii who had their brains autopsied after death. The ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Neurologists develop software application to help identify subtle epileptic lesions

Researchers from the Department of Neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center identified potential benefits of a new computer application that automatically detects subtle brain lesions in MRI scans in patients with epilepsy. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds twenty percent of children with MS don't respond to first-line treatment

Researchers from the National Network of Pediatric MS Centers of Excellence, in the first retrospective study of the response of children with multiple sclerosis to standard, or first-line, therapies, found that one-fifth ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Migraines and headaches present no risk to cognitive function

Recent work, in particular the CAMERA study, has used MRI to study the brains of migraine sufferers and has shown that a higher proportion of these patients exhibit lesions of the brain microvessels than the rest of the population.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stroke damage to brain may not be permanent, study finds

Brain functions lost after a stroke might not be gone forever.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Complex brain landscape controls speech

Up to now, Broca's region in the brain has been thought to comprise two areas, since it was discovered in 1861, it has been regarded as one of the two regions in the cerebral cortex responsible for language. The conception ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Mild memory loss is not a part of normal aging

Simply getting older is not the cause of mild memory lapses often called senior moments, according to a new study by researchers at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center. The study, published in the September 15, 2010, online ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Multiple sclerosis activity changes with the seasons

New research shows that multiple sclerosis (MS) activity can increase during spring and summer months. The research is published in the August 31, 2010, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neu ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children with brain injuries have problems with story-telling

Children with brain injuries have difficulty developing story-telling skills even though other language abilities, such as vocabulary, tend to catch up with other children as they mature, research at the University of Chicago ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Soldiers with brain injuries at higher risk of epilepsy decades later

Soldiers who receive traumatic brain injuries during war may be at a higher risk of epilepsy even decades after the brain injury occurred. The new research is published in the July 20, 2010, print issue of Neurology, the me ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New guideline: MRI better than CT scans at diagnosing stroke

Doctors should use a diffusion MRI scan to diagnose stroke instead of a CT scan, according to a new guideline from the American Academy of Neurology. The guideline is published in the July 13, 2010, issue of Neurology.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0