http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A report from the University of Freiburg that is published in one of the last issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics address the presence of cerebral abnormalities in eating disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cerebral-abnormalities-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:33:37 EST news284204009 In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to use light and color to measure oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-technology-oxygen-individual-red-blood.html Medical research Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:00:01 EST news283434986 (HealthDay)—The neural response in the visual cortex while processing emotional information can predict which patients with major depressive disorder will respond to scopolamine, according to a study published online Jan. 30 in JAMA Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-brain-response-scopolamine.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:20:04 EST news278866957 Humans perceive numerous categories of objects and actions, but where are these categories represented spatially in the brain? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-reveals-brain-categorizes-thousands-actions.html Neuroscience Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:00:01 EST news275137241 Women suffering from sleep apnea have, on the whole, a higher degree of brain damage than men with the disorder, according to a first-of-its-kind study conducted by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The findings are reported in the December issue of the peer-reviewed journal Sleep. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-women-apnea-higher-degree-brain.html Sleep apnea Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:50:21 EST news273772191 MRI shows changes in the brains of people with post-concussion syndrome (PCS), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Researchers hope the results point the way to improved detection and treatment for the disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-mri-brain-disruption-patients-post-concussion.html Neuroscience Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:01 EST news272650250 In everyday life, attention and awareness appear tightly interwoven. Attending to the scissors on the right side of your desk, you become aware of their attributes, for example the red handles. Vice versa, the red handles could attract your attention to the scissors. However, a number of behavioural observations have recently led scientists to postulate that attention and awareness are fundamentally different processes and not necessarily connected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-attention-awareness-uncoupled-brain-imaging.html Neuroscience Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:00:05 EST news240154664 The past two decades have witnessed an epidemic spread of obesity-related diseases in Western countries. Elucidating the biological mechanism that links overnutrition to obesity could prove crucial in reducing obesity levels. In the July 26 issue of PLoS Biology, Dr. Dongsheng Cai and his research team at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a pathway that directs the brain to sense the body's glucose dynamics, and they find that a defect of this glucose sensing process contributes to the development of obesity and related disease. Importantly, the team also found that correction of this defect can normalize the whole-body energy balance and treat obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-obesity-brain-glucose.html Medical research Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:27:25 EST news230919926