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Brain's organization switches as children become adults

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Any child confronting an outraged parent demanding to know "What were you thinking?" now has a new response: "Scientists have discovered that my brain is organized differently than yours."


Adult brain neurons can remodel connections

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 1

Overturning a century of prevailing thought, scientists are finding that neurons in the adult brain can remodel their connections. In work reported in the Nov. 24 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...


Neighbour's aid for jobless nerve cells

Neighbour's aid for jobless nerve cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the laws of nature states that empty spaces don’t stay empty for long. Be it the flowerbed, which is overgrown with weeds in no time, or the gap in your appointment calendar, which ...





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Two molecules affecting brain plasticity

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- You wouldn't want a car with no brakes. It turns out that the developing brain needs them, too.


Polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids boost the birth of new neurons

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain) researchers have confirmed that a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, patented as an LMN diet, helps boost the production of the brain's stem cells ...


Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD (AP)

Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.


Current cigarette smokers at increased risk of seizures

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent study determined there is a significant risk of seizure for individuals who currently smoke cigarettes. Boston-based researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School also found that long-term, ...


Extinct goat Myotragus balearicus

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.


Investigational neurostimulation device aims to reduce stroke damage

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stroke researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute in Houston are the only ones in Texas to offer a novel device that might extend the acute stroke treatment window from three hours to 24.


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Research describes connections between Circadian and metabolic systems

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A paper by University of Notre Dame biologist Giles Duffield and a team of researchers offers new insights into a gene that plays a key role in modulating the body’s Circadian system and may ...


On your last nerve: NC State researchers advance understanding of stem cells

On your last nerve: Researchers advance understanding of stem cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a gene that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing nerve cells called neurons. The research is a significant advance ...


Are teenagers wired differently than adults?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Parents have long suspected that the brains of their teenagers function differently than those of adults. With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop ...


The indefinite self-renewal of specialized cells without the need for stem cell intermediates

The indefinite self-renewal of specialized cells without the need for stem cell intermediates

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is the indefinite expansion of adult cells possible without recourse to stem cell intermediates? The team led by Michael Sieweke at the Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy, France has ...



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