Archive: 03/21/2012
Seeing movement: Why the world in our head stays still when we move our eyes
Scientists from Germany discovered new functions of brain regions that are responsible for seeing movement.
Neuroscience
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Imaging study reveals differences in brain function for children with math anxiety
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time how brain function differs in people who have math anxiety from those who don't.
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Researchers discover drug target for stimulating recovery from stroke
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that removing a matched set of molecules that typically help to regulate the brain's capacity for forming and eliminating connections between nerve cells ...
Neuroscience
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Study shines light on brain mechanism that controls reward enjoyment
What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences.
Neuroscience
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Alzheimer's disease spreads through linked nerve cells, brain imaging studies suggest
Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by scientists, such as by propagating in all directions, ...
Neuroscience
Mar 21, 2012 |
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U.S. health systems not ready for catastrophes: report
(HealthDay) -- In many parts of the United States, the infrastructure and systems to deliver health care during or after catastrophic disasters such as major earthquakes or widespread disease outbreaks are ...
Health
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Study into safety of common over-the-counter drugs reaches milestone
An international study into the safety of some of the most widely used medicines has reached a significant milestone by recruiting its 6,000th patient.
Medications
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Study: Stress-induced cortisol facilitates threat-related decision making among police officers
Research by Columbia Business School's Modupe Akinola, Assistant Professor, Management, and Wendy Berry Mendes, Associate Professor, Sarlo/Ekman Endowed Chair of Emotion, University of California San Francisco in Behavioral ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Researchers uncover new evidence of cancer-causing agent present in gaseous phase of cigarette smoke
A team of researchers led by A. K. Rajasekaran, PhD, Director of the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, has shown that a key protein involved in cell function and regulation is stopped by a substance present in ...
Medical research
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Bioethicists contribute to consensus opinion on the responsibility of biobanks
Bioethicists at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics are co-authors on a consensus article placing "significant responsibility" on biobanks to report individual research results (IRRs) and incidental findings (IFs) ...
Genetics
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Stress management for breast cancer patients may affect disease course
A team of researchers led by Michael H. Antoni, director of the Center for Psycho-Oncology Research at the University of Miami (UM) has shown that a stress management program tailored to women with breast cancer can alter ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Study may lead to new treatments for prostate cancer
A recent study conducted at Marshall University may eventually help scientists develop new treatments for prostate cancer, the most common malignancy in American men.
Cancer
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What makes a successful pregnancy?
Fertility problems, recurrent miscarriages, and pregnancy complications can occur when maternal immunological tolerance of the fetus is impaired. Gérard Chaouat and colleagues from Inserm et Assistance Publique et Université ...
Immunology
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Researchers validate new drug use consequences test for primary care
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have conducted a study on a modified version of the Short Inventory of Problems (SIP) to help promote ...
Addiction
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Brain's involvement in processing depends on language's graphic symbols
Readers whose mother tongue is Arabic have more challenges reading in Arabic than native Hebrew or English speakers have reading their native languages, because the two halves of the brain divide the labor differently when ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 21, 2012 |
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