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A team of researchers at UC San Francisco has uncovered the neurological basis of speech motor control, the complex coordinated activity of tiny brain regions that controls our lips, jaw, tongue and larynx as we speak. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-secrets-human-speech-uncovered-brain.html Neuroscience Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:06:54 EST news280588008 A new endoscopic surgical procedure has been shown to be safer and to result in better outcomes than the current standard medical treatment for patients who suffer strokes as a result of brain hemorrhages, UCLA neurosurgeons have announced. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-brain-hemorrhage-patients.html Surgery Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:32:31 EST news279876703 It has the makings of a science fiction movie: Zap someone's brain with mild jolts of electricity to try to stave off the creeping memory loss of Alzheimer's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-brain-pacemakers-zap-alzheimer.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:30:57 EST news277893043 (Medical Xpress)—A new tool that could allow for faster, more comprehensive testing of brain tissue during surgery successfully identified the cancer type, grade and tumor margins in five brain surgery patients, according to a new Brigham and Women's Hospital and Purdue University study. The paper detailing the results will be published in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was published online this week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-tool-brain-surgeons-closer-room.html Surgery Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:27:21 EST news276953227 Space research has developed a new way of measuring the pressure inside your skull using simple sound waves from headphones. The device is an effective early-warning system for patients recovering from head injury or brain surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-skull-pressure-headache.html Medical research Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:40:39 EST news275211633 Brain surgery for certain difficult forms of epilepsy often reduces or eliminates seizures for more than 15 years after the procedure, according to new research by neurologists at Henry Ford Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-long-terms-benefits-brain-surgery-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:15:18 EST news275058854 (Medical Xpress)—An important method for brain research and diagnosis is magnetoencephalography (MEG). But the MEG systems are so expensive that not all EU countries have one today. A group of Swedish researchers are now showing that MEG can be performed with technology that is significantly cheaper than that which is used today – technology that can furthermore provide new knowledge about the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-advanced-brain-cheaper.html Neuroscience Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:39:22 EST news274700345 (Medical Xpress)—Following the birth of a child, new mothers may have an altered perception of stresses around them, showing less interest in threats unrelated to the baby. This change to the neuroendocrine circuitry could help the mothers adapt to the additional stress often accompanying newborns, say researchers from Indiana University's Kinsey Institute and the University of Zurich. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-postpartum-women-stressed-threats-unrelated.html Neuroscience Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:44:19 EST news274419845 People who undergo repeated surgeries to remove glioblastomas—the most aggressive and deadliest type of brain tumors—may survive longer than those who have just a one-time operation, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-surgeries-life-patients-deadliest-brain.html Surgery Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:49:48 EST news270964148 (Medical Xpress)—After a promising clinical trial of focused ultrasound as a potential treatment for essential tremor, the University of Virginia Health System is launching a new study to investigate the scalpel-free technology's safety and effectiveness in reducing tremor related to Parkinson's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-focused-ultrasound-parkinson-disease.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:45:37 EST news269239529 UC Irvine doctors are enrolling patients with the deadly brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme in a clinical trial of a vaccine that may prevent the cancer's return or spread after surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-uc-irvine-clinical-trial-treatment.html Cancer Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:31:00 EST news269101842 (Medical Xpress)—UK scientists have made a breakthrough in a new method of brain tumour diagnosis, offering hope to tens of thousands of people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-fingerprinting-breakthrough-brain-tumour-diagnosis.html Medical research Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:34:21 EST news267438833 Until recently, Nanci Redd thought she would need brain surgery if she wanted to stay in Akron, Ohio, to treat uncontrolled dizziness caused by a non-cancerous growth in her head. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-brain-cancer-treatment-options-boosted.html Cancer Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:00:01 EST news265028423 Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed the world's first device designed for mapping the human brain that combines whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. MEG measures the electrical function and MRI visualizes the structure of the brain. The merging of these two technologies will produce unprecedented accuracy in locating brain electrical activity non-invasively. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-unprecedented-accuracy-brain-electrical-device.html Medical research Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:55:28 EST news262518915 A new probe developed collaboratively at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering uses an innovative fluorescence-reading technology to help brain surgeons distinguish cancerous tissue from normal tissue. The probe tool, now already in use at the Cancer Center for brain surgery, may one day be used for surgeries for a variety of cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-probe-vital-brain-cancer-surgery.html Cancer Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:24:17 EST news262362251 Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that human brains represent thoughts through a complex interplay of elec-trical signals. Recent improvements in brain recording and statistical methods have given researchers unprecedented insight into the physical processes under-lying thoughts. For example, researchers have begun to show that it is possible to use brain recordings to reconstruct aspects of an image or movie clip someone is viewing, a sound someone is hearing or even the text someone is reading. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-neural-fingerprints-memory-associations.html Neuroscience Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:00:11 EST news259944412 Deep brain stimulation reduces binge eating in mice, suggesting that this surgery, which is approved for treatment of certain neurologic and psychiatric disorders, may also be an effective therapy for obesity. Presentation of the results will take place Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-binge-deep-brain-surgery.html Surgery Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:40:01 EST news259848552 (HealthDay) -- Men are twice as likely as women to have complications after brain or spinal surgery, and also spend more time in the hospital after the operation, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-men-prone-complications-brain-spine.html Surgery Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:30:01 EST news254149802 Researchers at Winship Cancer Institute have developed a technique for detecting an "oncometabolite", a chemical produced by some brain tumors' warped metabolism, via non-invasive imaging. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-noninvasive-imaging-mutations-brain-tumor.html Cancer Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:50:27 EST news251632173 Patients with epilepsy who underwent brain surgery soon after failing to respond to drug treatment, but who also continued to receive drug therapy, had a lower risk of seizures during the 2nd year of follow-up compared to patients who received drug treatment alone, according to a study in the March 7 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-surgery-failure-drug-treatment-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:00:03 EST news250269056 Eva Peron, the glamorous first lady of Argentina in the 1940s and 50s, may have been given a secret lobotomy shortly before her death at age 33, scientific researchers said in a new report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-eva-peron-secret-lobotomy.html Other Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:55:09 EST news243881696 (Medical Xpress) -- Five-year-old Ava Menefee was suffering frightening stroke-like episodes: One side of her face would temporarily droop, or she’d lose all sensation in one hand. Although the girl had undergone surgery to fix the faulty blood flow to her brain that caused the episodes, the operation had failed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-surgery-reroutes-vessels-torso-brain.html Surgery Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:34:31 EST news242897664 A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous malformation -- a brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke -- for the first time in a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-drug-treatment-brain-blood-vessel.html Cardiology Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:03:41 EST news238953812 The American Academy of Neurology is releasing an updated guideline on how to best treat essential tremor, which is the most common type of tremor disorder and is often confused with other movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. The guideline is published in the October 19, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-aan-guideline-essential-tremor.html Neuroscience Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:22:21 EST news238260125 After suffering from uncontrollable epileptic seizures for more than 15 years, a new laser therapy has given a 48-year-old Houston-area woman a life without seizures. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-laser-thermal-therapy-patients-seizures.html Medical research Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:30:07 EST news232102821 (Medical Xpress) -- University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics has become the second academic medical center in the country where neurosurgeons can perform deep-brain stimulation (DBS) in an intra-operative MRI (iMRI) suite. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-approach-parkinson-surgery.html Other Wed, 25 May 2011 11:14:43 EST news225540840