News tagged with brain marker

Adult autism diagnosis by brain scan

Scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London have developed a pioneering new method of diagnosing autism in adults. For the first time, a quick brain scan that takes just 15 minutes can identify ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 10, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers Identify Early Brain Marker for Familial Form of Depression

(PhysOrg.com) -- Findings from one of the largest-ever imaging studies of depression indicate that a structural difference in the brain - a thinning of the right hemisphere - appears to be linked to a higher ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research moves a step closer to possibility of brain scan-assisted diagnosis for PTSD

Florence, Italy: Preliminary research examining the difference in brain activity between soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and those without it moves scientists a step closer to the possibility of being able one ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Breakthroughs help brain surgeons remove nearly all of a tumor, raise survival rates

Donna Vinson suddenly felt she "couldn't think well." She was far off from choosing the right words, even pointing to a garbage can once as she asked a family member to pass the potatoes.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New target for fighting Alzheimer's: study

French researchers said Tuesday they had found a promising new target in the fight against Alzheimer's, the debilitating brain disease that causes irreversible memory loss and dementia.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Schizophrenia could be revealed by distinctive sleep pattern

When people with schizophrenia sleep, their brain waves show a distinctive pattern that may someday lead to one of the first biological markers for this devastating mental illness.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Japanese honeybees swarm huge hornet predator to kill it with heat

Japanese honeybees face a formidable foe in the Asian giant hornet, a fierce predator that can reach 40mm long or larger, but the bees have developed a novel defense mechanism: they create a "hot defensive bee ball," swarming ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Why don't brain tumors respond to medication?

Malignant brain tumors often fail to respond to promising new medication. Researchers in Heidelberg have discovered a mechanism and a tumor marker for the development of this resistance. A "death receptor" can possibly provide ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gene variation makes alcoholism less likely in some survivors of sexual abuse

Exposure to severe stress early in life increases the risk of alcohol and drug addiction. Yet surprisingly, some adults sexually abused as children — and therefore at high risk for alcohol problems — carry gene variants that ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0