News tagged with primary brain

NeuroImage: Multiplexing in the visual brain

Imagine sitting in a train at the railway station looking outside: Without analyzing the relative motion of object contours across many different locations at the same time, it is often difficult to decide ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Collaborative care shown to be successful for patients with opioid addictions

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that for the majority of patients with opioid addiction, collaborative care with nurse care managers is a successful method of service delivery while ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Targeted particle fools brain's guardian to reach tumors

A targeted delivery combination selectively crosses the tight barrier that protects the brain from the bloodstream to home in on and bind to brain tumors, a research team led by scientists from The University of Texas MD ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the brain's architecture makes our view of the world unique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

How well is your doctor caring for people with Parkinson's disease? New AAN tool helps measure care

The American Academy of Neurology has developed a new tool to help doctors gauge how well they are caring for people with Parkinson's disease. The new quality measures are published in the November 30, 2010, issue of Neurology.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists find explanation for blindsight

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rare phenomenon of blindsight has been known for a long time, but until now has never been understood. People with blindsight are effectively blind through damage to the primary visual ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (22) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Experience shapes the brain's circuitry throughout adulthood

The adult brain, long considered to be fixed in its wiring, is in fact remarkably dynamic. Neuroscientists once thought that the brain's wiring was fixed early in life, during a critical period beyond which changes were impossible. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The scientific brain: Human brain processes predictable sensory input in particularly efficient manner

(PhysOrg.com) -- It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists. Good science involves formulating a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Men leave: Separation and divorce far more common when the wife is the patient

A woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple sclerosis than if a man in the relationship is the patient, according to a study that examined the role gender played ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can we 'learn to see?': Study shows perception of invisible stimuli improves with training

Although we assume we can see everything in our field of vision, the brain actually picks and chooses the stimuli that come into our consciousness. A new study in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Some brain tumors may be mediated by tiny filament on cells

UCSF scientists have discovered that a tiny filament extending from cells, until recently regarded as a remnant of evolution, may play a role in the most common malignant brain tumor in children.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Insomnia suffers need increased brain activation to maintain normal daily function

According to new research, patients suffering from chronic primary insomnia (PIs) have higher levels of brain activation compared to normal sleepers during a working memory test.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Deep Brain Stimulation Found to be Effective in Children with Treatment-Resistant Generalized Primary Dystonia

Dystonia is a very complex, highly variable neurological movement disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions. As many as 250,000 people in the United States have dystonia, making it the third most common movement ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rigorous visual training teaches the brain to see again after stroke (w/Video)

By doing a set of vigorous visual exercises on a computer every day for several months, patients who had gone partially blind as a result of suffering a stroke were able to regain some vision, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Brain tumor treatment may increase number of cancer stem-like cells

A new study suggests that the standard treatment for a common brain tumor increases the aggressiveness of surviving cancer cells, possibly leaving patients more vulnerable to tumor recurrence. The research, published by Cell ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0