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Scientists erase fear from the brain

Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. This is shown by researchers from Uppsala University in a new study now being published by the academic journal Science. The findings may represent a brea ...

Neuroscience created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Heavy drinking rewires brain, increasing susceptibility to anxiety problems

Doctors have long recognized a link between alcoholism and anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Those who drink heavily are at increased risk for traumatic events like car accidents and domestic ...

Neuroscience created Sep 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study explains how shock therapy might ease severe depression

(HealthDay) -- A small new study gives insight into how electroshock therapy, an effective yet poorly understood treatment for severe depression, affects the brains of depressed people.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain circuits connected with memory discovered

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published last week in Science reveals the discovery of a brain pathway that helps us link events that happen close together and play a role in memories.

Neuroscience created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

High levels of master heat shock protein linked to poor prognosis in breast cancer patients

Whitehead Institute scientists report that patients whose estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers have high levels of the ancient cellular survival factor heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) experience poor ...

Cancer created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DARPA takes new look at electrical brain stimulation to aid in learning

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research going on in Albequerque, NM by a team of neuroscientists working for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) indicates that mild brain stimulation with electrical ...

Neuroscience created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Security risks found in sensors for heart devices, consumer electronics

The type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering, according to a new study conducted in controlled laboratory conditions.

Cardiology created May 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

App lets amputees program their own bionic hands

Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands. Now, he's got an app instead. Koger this week demonstrated the i-limb ultra revolution, ...

Other created May 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Changes in patterns of brain activity predict fear memory formation

Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered that changes in patterns of brain activity during fearful experiences predict whether a long-term fear memory is formed. The research results have recently ...

Neuroscience created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Modified protein could become first effective treatment for vitiligo

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers have developed a genetically modified protein that dramatically reverses the skin disorder vitiligo in mice, and has similar effects on immune ...

Medical research created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Progressive exercise training may benefit diabetic neuropathy

(HealthDay)—In a rat model of diabetes, exercise is associated with decreased diabetes-associated neuropathic pain, which correlates with increased expression of heat shock protein 72 (Hsp72), according to a study published ...

Medical research created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New findings on heat shock proteins may shed light on variety of debilitating diseases

UCLA researchers, in a finding that runs counter to conventional wisdom, have discovered for the first time that a gene thought to express a protein in all cells that come under stress is instead expressed only in specific ...

Medical research created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blocking digestive enzymes may reverse shock, stop multiorgan failure

New research from the University of California, San Diego published in the Jan. 23 issue of Science Translational Medicine moves researchers closer to understanding and developing treatments for shock, sepsis ...

Medical research created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A drug used to treat HIV might defuse deadly staph infections

A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers suggests that an existing HIV drug called maraviroc could be a potential therapy for Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious and deadly pathogen linked to hundreds of thousands of hos ...

HIV & AIDS created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Smart stethoscope' advance in monitoring treatment of kidney stones

A new listening device, developed by scientists from the University of Southampton, is being used to monitor the effectiveness of the treatment of kidney stones - saving patients unnecessary repeat therapy ...

Medical research created Dec 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0