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

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 79 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

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

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

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

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

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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

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

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

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

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

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