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Study Identifies Brain Pathway That Shuts Down Seizures

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System have uncovered a brain pathway that shuts down seizures. The multidisciplinary team of scientists pieced together information from clinical observations made in the first half of the 20th century with knowledge from modern genetics and molecular biology to show that [...]

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Giving Brain Aneurysm Patients New Hope

For 48-year-old William Taylor of Cordova, Ill., the long drive from the Quad Cities area to Rush University Medical Center in Chicago was worth the trip if it meant the possibility of keeping the brain aneurysms he has been suffering from for the past nine years from ballooning and growing any further. %26quot;I’ve traveled a [...]

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Senior Falls Cause Serious Brain Injuries

Senior falls lead to serious traumatic brain injuries, urging the need of more educational materials for elderly, caregivers, and healthcare providers. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report on senior falls in 2005. The study found that in 2005 about 8000 deaths and 56000 hospitalizations took place among people aged from 65 [...]

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Chronic Grief Activates Pleasure Areas Of Brain

Grief is universal, and most of us will probably experience the pain grief brings at some point in our lives, usually with the death of a loved one. In time, we move on, accepting the loss. But for a substantial minority, it’s impossible to let go, and even years later, any reminder of their loss [...]

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How Our Brain Speaks Languages?

The â€œLa Mente BilingÃ¼eâ€ research team that doctor Itziar Laka leads in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Basque Country analyses bilingual processing of language. The aim is to find out how the brain acquires and manages languages and to discover in what way languages being similar or different is influential in [...]

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Newborn seizures can be detected with portable brain monitors

Compact, bedside brain-activity monitors detected most seizures in at-risk infants, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed. That means the compact units could assist clinicians in monitoring for electrical seizures until confirmation with conventional EEG (electroencephalography), the researchers assert in an article published in the June issue of Pediatrics. The smaller, [...]

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Powerful Brain Cells Unexpectedly Benefit From Statins

Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found. The new findings shed light on a long-debated potential role for statins in the area of dementia. Neuroscientists found that statins, one of [...]

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