A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into categories, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago.
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Older people's short-term memory is generally slower and less accurate compared to younger people. But a new University of California, Berkeley, study suggests that brains that continue to perform well in old age do so by ...
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(Medical Xpress)—A study led by a Michigan State University researcher offers the strongest evidence yet that reflexology – a type of specialized foot massage practiced since the age of pharaohs – can help cancer patients ...
Nov 13, 2012
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Allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a procedure that infuses a donor's healthy blood-forming stem cells into a recipient as part of a potentially curative therapy for cancer. While this therapy can ...
Aug 28, 2020
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Researchers in Baltimore have identified new compounds whichrelax airway muscles and may provide relief from shortness of breath for patients with COPD and asthma. The bitter-tasting compounds are at least as, if not more, ...
May 15, 2011
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In work that reconciles two competing views of brain structures involved in memory and spatial perception, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have conducted experiments that suggest the ...
Apr 2, 2015
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Georgetown University neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a "crash in visual processing"—a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Inadequate sleep is a public health problem affecting more than one in three adults worldwide. A new study in the journal Sleep, published by Oxford University Press, suggests that insufficient sleep could also have grave ...
Jun 4, 2018
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If you're a senior who struggles to remember where you put your car keys, could noninvasive brain stimulation boost your memory?
Aug 22, 2022
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Marijuana and its active components (THC and CBD) exist in many forms and strengths and can affect people in different ways.
Apr 3, 2019
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