News tagged with brain lesions
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Selective brain damage modulates human spirituality
New research provides fascinating insight into brain changes that might underlie alterations in spiritual and religious attitudes. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 11 issue of the journal Neuron, explor ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 10, 2010 |
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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
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Stroke damage to brain may not be permanent, study finds
Brain functions lost after a stroke might not be gone forever.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Evidence appears to show how and where frontal lobe works
(Physorg.com) -- A Brown University study of stroke victims has produced evidence that the frontal lobe of the human brain controls decision-making along a continuum from abstract to concrete, from front to ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 02, 2009 |
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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
Mar 09, 2011 |
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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
Nov 21, 2011 |
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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
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Low Vitamin D Levels Are Related to MS Brain Atrophy, Cognitive Function, Studies Show
(PhysOrg.com) -- Low vitamin D levels may be associated with more advanced physical disability and cognitive impairment in persons with multiple sclerosis, studies conducted by neurologists at the University at Buffalo have ...
Apr 28, 2010 |
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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
Jul 26, 2010 |
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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
Jan 19, 2011 |
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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
Feb 23, 2011 |
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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, ...
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Hormone therapy linked to brain shrinkage, but not lesions
Two new studies show that commonly prescribed forms of postmenopausal hormone therapy may slightly accelerate the loss of brain tissue in women 65 and older beyond what normally occurs with aging.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Gamma knife treatment for glioblastomas shows promising results
Researchers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center report promising results from a cutting-edge research study that treated the aggressive brain tumors glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) using a novel type of imaging called ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Brain surgery evolves to destroy rogue blood vessels
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over three decades, a world-recognized medical team at UC San Diego Medical Center has spurred the evolution of a complex surgery to destroy dangerous clusters of arteries and veins in the brain. Integrating ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 16, 2009 |
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