News tagged with fetal movements

Moms-to-be warned over use of fetal heart rate monitors

Mums-to-be are being advised not to use personal monitors (Doppler devices) to listen to their baby's heartbeat at home over fears that they may lead to delays in seeking help for reduced fetal movements.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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New study solidifies role of DISC1 in risk for schizophrenia and other mental illness

Johns Hopkins researchers report the discovery of a molecular switch that regulates the behavior of a protein that, when altered, is already known to increase human susceptibility to schizophrenia and mood disorders.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unlocking the secret(ase) of building neural circuits

Mutant presenilin is infamous for its role in the most aggressive form of Alzheimer's disease -- early-onset familial Alzheimer's -- which can strike people as early as their 30s. In their latest study, researchers ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New imaging method reveals stunning details of brain connections

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, applying a state-of-the-art imaging system to brain-tissue samples from mice, have been able to quickly and accurately locate and ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Reversal of fortune for Parkinson's disease transplant treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imperial College London researchers have overcome a major obstacle in the development of a transplant treatment which could relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, according to new research ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Serotonin solves decades-old mystery in Parkinson's disease

Sudden, uncontrolled movements called dyskinesias—a common side effect of treatment for Parkinson’s disease— are a result of excess serotonin cells in transplanted tissue that trick the brain into releasing ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Experimental targeted therapy shows early promise against medulloblastomas

Researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology the findings of a pediatric brain tumor study using an experimental ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British heroin substitute may be associated with wide-ranging sight problems

Children born to mothers prescribed the heroin substitute methadone during pregnancy may be at risk of wide-ranging sight problems, indicates a small study published ahead of print in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel Parkinson's treatment strategy involves cell transplantation

UCSF scientists have used a novel cell-based strategy to treat motor symptoms in rats with a disease designed to mimic Parkinson's disease.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Incidence of Cerebral Palsy on Rise in United States

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cerebral palsy (CP) has increased in infants born prematurely in the United States, according to data presented by researchers from Loyola University Health System (LUHS). These findings were reported at ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unlikely genetic suspect implicated in common brain defect

A genetic search that wound its way from patients to mouse models and back to patients has uncovered an unlikely gene critically involved in a common birth defect which causes mental retardation, motor delays ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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