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Individual with complete spinal cord injury regains voluntary motor function
Extended activity-based training with epidural stimulation resulted in ability to stand and move without stimulation.
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Scientists find key to unwanted thoughts
A chemical in the brain's "memory" region can allow people to suppress negative thoughts.
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This is what people say when they die, according to nurses who care for terminal patients
Terminally ill patients can often predict when they are going to die, and have been known to say they’ve had a glimpse of heaven while on their death beds, according to nurses who care for them. Macmillan palliative care nurses at Royal Stoke University Hospital, who see patients die on a routine basis, have opened up about what patients tend to do and say in the hours, days and weeks before they pass. Many have basic dying wishes such as seeing their dogs, or having a glass of their favourite drink or a cup of tea...
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Brain Chemistry Profiles Shows Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Gulf War Illness as Unique Disorders
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found distinct molecular signatures in two brain disorders long thought to be psychological in origin — chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and Gulf War Illness (GWI). In addition, the work supports a previous observation by GUMC investigators of two variants of GWI. The disorders share commonalities, such as pain, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction and exhaustion after exercise.
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The "Swiss Army Knife" Of Health: A Good Night's Sleep
The average American adult gets about six hours of sleep a night. Neuroscientist Matthew Walker is on a mission to bring that number up to eight.
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Brain Activity Buffers Against Worsening Anxiety
Boosting activity in brain areas related to thinking and problem-solving may also buffer against worsening anxiety, suggests a new study by Duke University researchers. Using non-invasive brain imaging, the researchers found that people at-risk for anxiety were less likely to develop the disorder if they had higher activity in a region of the brain responsible for complex mental operations. The results may be a step towards tailoring psychological therapies to the specific brain functioning of individual patients.
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Alive Inside: How a Houston hospital restores patients with severe brain injuries
Across the country, thousands of people with severe brain injuries are wrongly labeled as unconscious each year. Among them, a small number make it to a Houston rehab hospital, where those with even the worst injuries get a shot at recovery. By Mike Hixenbaugh.
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Autism therapy: Social behavior restored via brain stimulation
Scientists are examining the feasibility of treating autistic children with neuromodulation after a new study showed social impairments can be corrected by brain stimulation. The research from the O’Donnell Brain Institute provides the first evidence that a specific part of the cerebellum, a region near the brain stem that has long been thought to only have roles in coordinating movement, is critical for autistic behaviors.
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Neuroscientists call for more comprehensive view of how brain forms memories
UChicago neuroscientists argue that research on how memories form in the brain should consider activity of groups of brain cells working together, not just the connections between them.
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Nerve discovery offers hope to patients suffering major spinal cord injuries
Dr Sylvia Gustin from Neuroscience Research Australia used cutting edge magnetic resonance imaging known as fMRI scans to record how 23 people living with spinal injuries responded to touch. The scientists were surprised that many people who couldn't feel the stimulation were still registering the touch in their brains.
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What Woodpecker Brains Can Tell Us About Head Injuries in the NFL
Superbowl Sunday is expected to draw 110 million viewers tuning in to watch the big game — not including, just off the field, four independent concussion specialists strategically placed on the sidelines to quickly spot, evaluate, and treat potential head injuries that can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. First diagnosed in an NFL player in the early 2000s, CTE has been the subject of a growing body of research on the degenerative condition.
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An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness
You've got an ancient virus in your brain. In fact, you've got an ancient virus at the very root of your conscious thought. According to two papers published in the journal Cell in January, long ago, a virus bound its genetic code to the genome of four-limbed animals. That snippet of code is still very much alive in humans' brains today, where it does the very viral task of packaging up genetic information and sending it from nerve cells to their neighbors in little capsules that look a whole lot like viruses themselves.
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Video game calms schizophrenia patients
People with schizophrenia can be trained by playing a video game to control the part of the brain linked to verbal hallucinations, researchers say. Patients in a small study were able to land a rocket in the game when it was connected to the brain region sensitive to speech and human voices. In time, the patients learnt to use the technique in their daily lives to reduce the power of hallucinations.
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Alzheimer's disease reversed in mice, offering hope for humans, new research shows
Amyloid plaques largely disappeared with the deletion of just a single enzyme.
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Study Says Everyday Physical Activities Are Good for Older Peoples’ Brains
Recent research finds a link between high levels of everyday physical activities and higher gray matter density in older individuals. In simpler words, this new study “Accelerometer Physical Activity is Associated with Greater Gray Matter Volumes in Older Adults without Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment” says that taking part in these everyday activities—such as cleaning the house, walking the dog, or mowing the lawn—is associated with better brain health, as gray matter in the brain includes regions in control of muscle movement, thinking, feeling, memory, speech, and much more.
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Lecithin Benefits & Information
Lecithin, originally isolated by Theodore Nicolas Gobley from egg yolk, is a term now frequently used to describe any of a number of fatty substances with health benefits that occur naturally in a number of plants and animals.
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Stem cells shed light on potential anti-Alzheimer’s compound
Toxic deposits of the proteins amyloid beta and tau in the brain have been implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, but the understanding of exactly how these proteins interact to cause dementia is still largely a mystery. Scientists at the University of Washington are using stem cells from Alzheimer’s patients to study the two proteins—and they’ve hit upon a compound that seems to lessen the buildup of them in brain cells.
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A syndrome stranger than sci-fi – how limbs can get a mind of their own
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Pain begins differently for men and women at the cellular level, research says
New research from The University of Texas at Dallas supports the growing consensus that pain begins differently for men and women at the cellular level. Dr. Ted Price, Dr. Salim Megat and their colleagues in the Pain Neurobiology Research Group recently found that a specific manipulation of receptors in the nervous system for the neurotransmitter dopamine impairs chronic pain in male mice, but has no effect on females. Price, an associate professor of neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences...
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Scientists have established a link between brain damage and religious fundamentalism
A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region known as the prefrontal cortex. By Bobby Azarian.
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