Neuroscience
Electrical brain stimulation enhances creativity, researchers say
Safe levels of electrical stimulation can enhance your capacity to think more creatively, according to a new study by Georgetown researchers.
Apr 14, 2016
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Neuroscience
Resveratrol impacts Alzheimer's disease biomarker
The largest nationwide clinical trial to study high-dose resveratrol long-term in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease found that a biomarker that declines when the disease progresses was stabilized in people ...
Sep 11, 2015
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Neuroscience
Bilinguals of two spoken languages have more gray matter than monolinguals
A new study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex suggests people who speak two languages have more gray matter in the executive control region of the brain.
Jul 16, 2015
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Unraveling the mystery of a-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease and reversing its course
A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center has shown how a protein, known to accumulate in Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, activates the brain's immune response.
May 12, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Study reveals a cause of poorer outcomes for African-American patients with breast cancer
Poorer outcomes for African-American women with estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, compared with European-American patients, appears to be due, in part, to a strong survival mechanism within the cancer cells, ...
Apr 18, 2015
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Neuroscience
After learning new words, brain sees them as pictures
When we look at a known word, our brain sees it like a picture, not a group of letters needing to be processed. That's the finding from a Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, ...
Mar 24, 2015
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Tau, not amyloid-beta, triggers neuronal death process in Alzheimer's
New research points to tau, not amyloid-beta (Abeta) plaque, as the seminal event that spurs neuron death in disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. The finding, which dramatically alters the prevailing theory of Alzheimer's ...
Oct 31, 2014
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Neuroscience
Brain structure of kidney donors may make them more altruistic
(Medical Xpress)—People who donate kidneys to strangers have significantly different brain structures than those who don't.
Sep 16, 2014
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Health
United Nations urged to take bold action to curb non-communicable diseases
(Medical Xpress)—In the journal Nature this week, Georgetown Law Professor Lawrence Gostin argues that coherent international regulations could spur local governments to adopt common-sense, cost-effective measures to ...
Jul 10, 2014
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Genetics
A single gene separates aggressive and non-aggressive lymphatic system cancer
For a rare form of cancer called thymoma, researchers have discovered a single gene defining the difference between a fast-growing tumor requiring aggressive treatment and a slow-growing tumor that doesn't require extensive ...
Jun 29, 2014
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