http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Data from more than 180 research papers suggests fish oils could minimise the effects that junk food can have on the brain, a review by researchers at the University of Liverpool has shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-fish-oil-stall-effects-junk.html Health Tue, 14 May 2013 10:10:25 EST news287745015 (Medical Xpress)—How does San Francisco Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval swat a 95 mph fastball, or tennis icon Venus Williams see the oncoming ball, let alone return her sister Serena's 120 mph serves? For the first time, vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have pinpointed how the brain tracks fast-moving objects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-mph-baseball-scientists.html Neuroscience Wed, 08 May 2013 12:40:10 EST news287235602 Information from the senses has an important influence on how we move. For instance, you can see and feel when a mug is filled with hot coffee, and you lift it in a different way than if the mug were empty. Neuroscientist Julian Tramper discovered that the brain uses two forms of old information in order to execute new movements well. This discovery can be useful for the field of robotics. Tramper will receive his doctorate on Thursday 24 April from Radboud University Nijmegen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-robotics-brain-movements.html Neuroscience Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:26:13 EST news285492365 Thinking about death can cause us to feel a sort of existential angst that isn't attributable to a specific source. Now, new research suggests that acetaminophen, an over-the-counter pain medication, may help to reduce this existential pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-experiencing-existential-dread-tylenol.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:25:57 EST news285323140 (Medical Xpress)—Your brain knows it's time to cook when the stove is on, and the food and pots are out. When you rush away to calm a crying child, though, cooking is over and it's time to be a parent. Your brain processes and responds to these occurrences as distinct, unrelated events. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-subconscious-mental-categories-brain-everyday.html Neuroscience Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:09:11 EST news284825326 A look at how the brain processes information finds a distinct pattern in children with autism spectrum disorders. Using EEGs to track the brain's electrical cross-talk, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital have found a structural difference in brain connections. Compared with neurotypical children, those with autism have multiple redundant connections between neighboring brain areas at the expense of long-distance links. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-network-analysis-brain-features-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:50:03 EST news281183838 (Medical Xpress)—A novel way to image the entire brain's glymphatic pathway, a dynamic process that clears waste and solutes from the brain that otherwise might build-up and contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease, may provide the basis for a new strategy to evaluate disease susceptibility, according to a research paper published online in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Through contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other tools, a Stony Brook University-led research team successfully mapped this brain-wide pathway and identified key anatomical clearance routes of brain waste. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-scientists-image-brain-alzheimer-diagnostic.html Neuroscience Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:38:50 EST news281000324 (Medical Xpress)—Several Kansas State University faculty members are helping children with auditory processing disorder receive better treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-children-auditory-disorder-treatment-options.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:38:17 EST news280571888 Why does training in mindfulness meditation help patients manage chronic pain and depression? In a newly published neurophysiological review, Brown University scientists propose that mindfulness practitioners gain enhanced control over sensory cortical alpha rhythms that help regulate how the brain processes and filters sensations, including pain, and memories such as depressive cognitions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-neural-basis-benefits-meditation.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:50:01 EST news279971154 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Dartmouth College have devised an experiment that demonstrates how music and movement are processed by the brain in similar ways. They describe their experiment and discuss its possible implications in a paper they've had published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-brain-similarities-music-movement.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:46:08 EST news275046354 The elec­trical out­puts of the brain con­tain mas­sive amounts of infor­ma­tion that could be a pow­erful resource if we could fully tap into it. Our brain processes things we see before any con­scious recog­ni­tion of those images comes to bear. While we can already mea­sure elec­tro­mag­netic activity with EEG and MEG, both of these tech­niques are limited. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-professor-brainwave.html Neuroscience Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:38:05 EST news273998274 (Medical Xpress)—Meditation can change the way a person experiences pain, according to a new study by UW–Madison neuroscientists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-meditation-expertise-pain.html Neuroscience Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:16:10 EST news272268964 Hate the Lakers? Do the Celtics make you want to hurl? Whether you like someone can affect how your brain processes their actions, according to new research from the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-affects-brain-movement.html Neuroscience Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:16:03 EST news268726549 They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, this is not always true. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have now discovered how the adult brain can adapt to new situations. The Dutch researchers' findings are published on Wednesday in the prestigious journal Neuron. Their study may be significant in the treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy, autism and schizophrenia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-mechanism-adult-brain-revealed.html Neuroscience Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:48:33 EST news254663260 A pair of neuroscientists from Vanderbilt and Harvard Universities has proposed the first neurobiological model for third-party punishment. It outlines a collection of potential cognitive and brain processes that evolutionary pressures could have re-purposed to make this behavior possible. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-crime-neurobiological-roots-modern-justice.html Neuroscience Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:20:01 EST news253973711 How should insights about the brain affect the course of a criminal trial, from the arguments in a courtroom to the issuing of a sentence? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-brain-trial.html Neuroscience Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:33:35 EST news242904807 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have come up with new insight into the brain processes that cause the following optical illusion: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-neuroscientists-famous-optical-illusion-surprisingly.html Neuroscience Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:10:38 EST news228413405 New neurons take more than six months to mature in adult monkeys and that time is likely even longer in humans, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the University of Illinois, and Pennsylvania State University. Their findings, reported this week in the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge the notion that the time it takes for neurogenesis is the reason anti-depressant medications are not fully effective until three to five weeks after treatment begins. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-neurons-months-mature-non-human-primate.html Medical research Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:44:02 EST news226593819 (Medical Xpress) -- Women with painful periods show increased sensitivity to pain throughout their cycles, even when there is no background period pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-painful-periods-sensitivity-pain-month.html Health Fri, 06 May 2011 07:21:44 EST news223885246