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Electrical brain stimulation plus drug fights depression, study reports
(HealthDay)—Treating major depression safely and affordably is a challenge. Now, Brazilian researchers have found that two techniques often used individually produce better results when used together.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 06, 2013 |
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Can nerve stimulation help prevent migraine?
Wearing a nerve stimulator for 20 minutes a day may be a new option for migraine sufferers, according to new research published in the February 6, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academ ...
Neuroscience
Feb 06, 2013 |
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Researchers conduct deep brain stimulation in Alzheimer's patient
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Florida have performed deep brain stimulation on a patient with Alzheimer's disease as part of a clinical trial studying whether the treatment can slow progression of the ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Feb 01, 2013 |
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Bioelectric signals can be used to detect early cancer
Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences have discovered a bioelectric signal that can identify cells that are likely to develop into tumors. The researchers also found that they could lower ...
Medical research
Feb 01, 2013 |
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Homemade ventilator reveals China medical woes
Her coarse hands gripping a blue plastic ventilator she pumped by hand for years to keep her injured son alive, Wang Lanqin sits by her child's bed.
Health
Jan 31, 2013 |
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Scientists learn more about how inhibitory brain cells get excited
Scientists have found an early step in how the brain's inhibitory cells get excited.
Neuroscience
Jan 30, 2013 |
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Study clarifies antidepressant contribution to arrhythmia risk
A 2011 warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about the popular antidepressant citalopram (Celexa) left many patients and physicians with more questions than answers. Now an analysis of the medical records of ...
Medications
Jan 29, 2013 |
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Glial cells assist in the repair of injured nerves
When a nerve is damaged, glial cells produce the protein neuregulin1 and thereby promote the regeneration of nerve tissue.
Neuroscience
Jan 28, 2013 |
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When the mind controls the machines
More than a hundred patients suffering from severe motor impairments have voluntarily participated in the development of non-invasive brain-machine interfaces. The main purpose of these machines is to allow ...
Neuroscience
Jan 24, 2013 |
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Sacral nerve stimulator helps manage chronic incontinence in children
Incontinence is typically a condition associated with adults; however, many children also struggle with incontinence – bladder, bowel or both. In order to help these children, doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital have ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 24, 2013 |
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Hyperbaric treatment has significantly resuscitated activity in damaged brains
Stroke, traumatic injury, and metabolic disorder are major causes of brain damage and permanent disabilities, including motor dysfunction, psychological disorders, memory loss, and more. Current therapy and rehab programs ...
Neuroscience
Jan 23, 2013 |
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A light switch inside the brain
Activating and deactivating individual nerve cells in the brain is something many neuroscientists wish they could do, as it would help them to better understand how the brain works.
Neuroscience
Jan 18, 2013 |
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Robot allows 'remote presence' in programming brain and spine stimulators
With the rapidly expanding use of brain and spinal cord stimulation therapy (neuromodulation), new "remote presence" technologies may help to meet the demand for experts to perform stimulator programming, reports a study ...
Surgery
Jan 16, 2013 |
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Virtual heart sheds new light on heart defect
(Medical Xpress)—A virtual heart, developed at The University of Manchester, is revealing new information about one of the world's most common heart conditions.
Cardiology
Jan 15, 2013 |
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Information better retained with reinforcing stimuli delivered during sleep, research finds
When you're studying for an exam, is there something you can do while you sleep to retain the information better?
Neuroscience
Jan 15, 2013 |
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