Smoking pot appears to affect teens' brain development, altering it in ways that could diminish their reasoning, decision-making and memory skills as they age, a new study reports.
Jun 17, 2021
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Brain scans of people in a coma may help predict who will regain consciousness, according to a study published in the November 11, 2015, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. ...
Nov 11, 2015
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African-American and Hispanic children are less likely to receive a cranial computed tomography (CT) scan in an emergency department (ED) following minor head trauma than white children, according to an abstract presented ...
Oct 14, 2011
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Scientists led by the President of The University of Manchester have demonstrated a drug which can dramatically limit the amount of brain damage in stroke patients.
Jul 26, 2012
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Most of what we know about how COVID can affect the brain has come from studies of severe infection. In people with severe COVID, inflammatory cells from outside the brain can enter brain tissue and spread inflammation. There ...
Mar 8, 2022
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New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience has found an association between a reduction in gray matter in the brain and early onset psychosis (EOP).
Jan 9, 2024
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Early signs of Alzheimer's disease can be detected years before diagnosis, according to researchers at Birmingham City University.
Jul 9, 2013
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Patients who undergo deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery to control life-disrupting symptoms caused by Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders traditionally have been awake during the procedure. Today, patients ...
Sep 11, 2013
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We know personality comes from the brain, but does that mean the shape and composition of the brain affects personality?
Dec 8, 2020
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Results from a pioneering clinical trials programme that delivered an experimental treatment directly to the brain offer hope that it may be possible to restore the cells damaged in Parkinson's.
Feb 26, 2019
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