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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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

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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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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.

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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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

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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 created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0