News tagged with traumatic brain

Soldiers' helmets could control brain activity with ultrasound

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of DARPA's latest pursuits of cutting-edge research involves a neurotechnology lab at Arizona State University that specializes in ultrasonic brain stimulation. By implementing the technology ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Flashing glasses may help PTSD sufferers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologists in the UK propose using spectacles with flashing lights at each side to identify people likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and possibly to treat them.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Neuroscientists Show How Brain Stores Memories of Specific Fears

(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain is capable of holding and retrieving memories for specific fears, revealing a more sophisticated storage and recall capacity than previously thought, neuroscientists have found. The study, which ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Patient presumed vegetative communicates via brain scan: study

(AP) -- Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them - findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Acute impact on brain function in earthquake survivors

New research has found that the Wenchuan, China earthquake that occurred on 12 May 2008 had an acute impact on the brain function of physically healthy survivors and poses a risk to the mental health of these survivors. The ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Birds in captivity lose hippocampal mass

(PhysOrg.com) -- Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Can magnetism help us control the brain, remotely?

University at Buffalo scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles to remotely control ion channels, neurons in cell culture and even the movement of a tiny worm.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Researchers discover how to erase memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working with mice have discovered that by removing a protein from the region of the brain responsible for recalling fear, they can permanently delete traumatic memories. Their report on a molecular ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Human brains grow, change and can heal themselves

By the time Scott Hayner of Highland Park, Texas, was 7, he had had one skull fracture and three major concussions from falling off horses.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

New study may help understand how Alzheimer's robs sufferers of episodic memory

Memory loss is love's great thief. Those who suffer aren't just the ones who can't remember—family, friends and loved ones agonize over how to react when the disorder begins its often inexorable progress.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study shows acupressure effective in helping to treat traumatic brain injury

A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates an ancient form of complementary medicine may be effective in helping to treat people with mild traumatic brain injury, a finding that may have implications ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Magnetic test reveals hyperactive brain network responsible for involuntary flashbacks

US scientists have found a correlation between increased circuit activity in the right side of the brain and the suffering of involuntary flashbacks by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sufferers.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Patterned pulses boost the effects of deep brain stimulation, research shows

Electrical stimulation has been used as a sort of defibrillator of consciousness, rousing a victim of traumatic brain injury to at least partial awareness, after years in a coma. The procedure, termed deep brain stimulation, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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How blast waves cause human brain injury even without direct head impacts?

New research on the effects of blast waves could lead to an enhanced understanding of head injuries and improved military helmet design.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Can a mother's voice spur recovery from a coma?

Karen Schroeder's voice, recorded on a CD, reminded her son, Ryan, of his 4-H project when he was 10 and decided to raise pigs. "You bid on three beautiful squealing black and white piglets at the auction," she said softly. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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