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New discoveries on depression

(Medical Xpress) -- During depression, the brain becomes less plastic and adaptable, and thus less able to perform certain tasks, like storing memories. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now traced the brain's lower ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First study to show that bisphenol A exposure increases risk of future onset of heart disease

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a controversial chemical widely used in the plastics industry. A new study followed people over a 10-year time period and shows that healthy people with higher urine concentrations of BPA were more likely ...

Cardiology created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plastic surgery gives younger appearance to aging face

(HealthDay) -- Aesthetic facial plastic surgery results in a reduction in perceived age, with the effect more substantial for those who undergo multiple procedures, according to a study published online Feb. ...

Surgery created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

A mechanism to improve learning and memory

There are a number of drugs and experimental conditions that can block cognitive function and impair learning and memory. However, scientists have recently shown that some drugs can actually improve cognitive function, which ...

Neuroscience created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

What causes language switching in bilinguals?

The proficiency that a bilingual person has of both languages, the context in which he speaks them or unconscious changes in their use are the factors that make people who speak Spanish and Catalan switch from one language ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Breast implants are most popular form of plastic surgery

(Medical Xpress) -- Breast augmentations are the most common form of plastic surgery nationwide, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Loyola University Health System plastic surgeons are seeing similar trends ...

Other created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US plastic surgeries rise for second straight year

The number of Americans getting nips and tucks rose in 2011 for the second straight year despite difficult economic times, a major US plastic surgeons' groups said on Thursday.

Other created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Venezuelans line up to switch PIP breast implants

(AP) -- The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers: nearly all are ...

Other created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brazil implant maker in eye of global storm

Brazil's Silimed, the third-biggest manufacturer of silicon breast implants in the world, has suddenly found itself in the eye of a global firestorm.

Other created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Hundreds' of Austrian women had PIP implants: report

Hundreds of Austrian women, many more than the eight as first thought, may have had potentially dangerous French-made breast implants in cheap operations in eastern Europe, a press report said Sunday.

Other created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brazil to pay for removal of defective breast implants

The government said Thursday it would pay for surgery on Brazilian women to remove defective French-made and Dutch-made breast implants.

Other created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Five women in Belgium have had PIP implants removed

Five women in Belgium have had potentially faulty breast implants made by French firm PIP removed since the beginning of December, the country's health watchdog said Saturday.

Other created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Brain's connective cells are much more than glue; they also regulate learning and memory

Glia cells, named for the Greek word for "glue," hold the brain's neurons together and protect the cells that determine our thoughts and behaviors, but scientists have long puzzled over their prominence in ...

Medical research created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Bone marrow-derived cells differentiate in the brain through mechanisms of plasticity

Bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMDCs) have been recognized as a source for transplantation because they can contribute to different cell populations in a variety of organs under both normal and pathological conditions. Many ...

Medical research created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dodging the cognitive hit of early-life seizures

About half of newborns who have seizures go on to have long-term intellectual and memory deficits and cognitive disorders such as autism, but why this occurs has been unknown. In the December 14 Journal of Neuroscience, resear ...

Neuroscience created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0