Neuroscience
High-fructose diet slows recovery from brain injury
A diet high in processed fructose sabotages rat brains' ability to heal after head trauma, UCLA neuroscientists report.
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Study looks at whether daily limb compressions reduce dementia
A new study is looking at whether short, daily bouts of reduced blood flow to an arm or leg can reduce the ravages of dementia.
Sep 21, 2015
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Neuroscience
Forget Freud, research on dream imagery may help us understand consciousness
Rapid eye movements (REMs) during sleep may contribute to the visual part of our dreams by acting as a switch from image to image, researchers have found. The study, which measured the activity of individual cells in the ...
Aug 13, 2015
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Neuroscience
Microbleeds, diminished cerebral blood flow in cognitively normal older patients
A small imaging study suggests cortical cerebral microbleeds in the brain, which are the remnant of red blood cell leakage from small vessels, were associated with reduced brain blood flow in a group of cognitively normal ...
Jul 13, 2015
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Cardiology
New MRI technique could expand treatment options for stroke victims
A recent study by scientists from Trinity College Dublin has shown how a new MRI scanning technique, which looks at sodium levels rather than water levels in the brain, offers the potential to extend the time-window during ...
May 28, 2015
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Cardiology
Controlling arterial tone and blood flow in the brain
Researchers have performed the first human-based study to identify calcium channels in cerebral arteries and determine the distinct role each channel plays in helping control blood flow to the brain. The study appears in ...
Apr 27, 2015
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Neuroscience
Steroids rapidly restore blood-brain barrier function after blast
Barclay Morrison III, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has led the first study to determine underlying biological mechanisms that promote functional recovery of the blood-brain barrier ...
Mar 11, 2015
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Neuroscience
Cerebral blood flow as a possible marker for concussion outcomes
A new imaging study suggests that cerebral blood flow recovery in the brain could be a biomarker of outcomes in patients following concussion, according to a study published online by JAMA Neurology.
Mar 2, 2015
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Neuroscience
What causes brain problems after traumatic brain injury? Studies have a surprising answer
A new paper by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) argues that there is a widespread misunderstanding about the true nature of traumatic brain injury and how it causes chronic degenerative ...
Jan 15, 2015
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Medical research
Research group identifies GLUT2 protein's role in zebrafish brain development
Researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) have described the key role that GLUT2 protein plays in embryonic brain development in zebrafish. A new article —highlighted on the cover of the January issue of the Journal ...
Jan 14, 2015
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