News tagged with brain damage
Pediatricians adopt new term for shaken baby abuse
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The American Academy of Pediatrics wants doctors to stop using the term "shaken baby syndrome" in favor of something more scientific.
Coronary angiography may improve outcomes for cardiac arrest patients
Mar 31, 2009 |
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People who suffer cardiac arrests and then receive coronary angiography are twice as likely to survive without significant brain damage compared with those who don't have the procedure, according to a study by University ...
Social isolation makes strokes more deadly, study finds
Mar 23, 2009 |
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New research in mice suggests that social isolation may promote more damaging inflammation in the brain during a stroke. Researchers at Ohio State University found that all the male mice that lived with a female partner survived ...
Brain damage found in cognitively normal people with Alzheimer's marker
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked a potential indicator of Alzheimer's disease to brain damage in humans with no signs of mental impairment.
Researchers identify a cell type that limits stroke damage
Jan 27, 2009 |
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A research team including Serge Rivest of University Laval's Faculty of Medicine has demonstrated the existence of a type of cells that limits brain damage after a stroke. The study was recently published in the online version ...
New drug holds out promise of normal diet for sufferers of devastating PKU genetic disease
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Imagine being forced to say no to a child crying for more food at supper. Sadly, Margie Fischer doesn't have to imagine it; that was normal life at her family's dinner table for years. Her daughter Maggie, now 20, suffers ...
Blind man walking: With no visual awareness, man navigates obstacle course flawlessly
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that people can successfully navigate an obstacle course even after brain damage has left them with no awareness of the ability to see and no activity in the visual cortex, ...
Are you phonagnosic?
Oct 27, 2008 |
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The first known case of someone born without the ability to recognise voices has been reported in a paper by UCL (University College London) researchers, in a study of a rare condition known as phonagnosia. The UCL team are ...
Memory function varies after damage to key area of the brain
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered dramatic differences in the memory performance of patients with damage to the hippocampus, an area of the human brain key to memory.
Blindsight: How brain sees what you do not see
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Blindsight is a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is although they claim they cannot see it. A research team led by Prof. Tadashi Isa and Dr. Masatoshi ...
Mouse studies suggest daily dose of ginkgo may prevent brain cell damage after a stroke
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Working with genetically engineered mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that daily doses of a standardized extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree can prevent or reduce brain damage after an induced stroke.
Study finds a new mechanism for how methamphetamine affects the developing fetal brain
Sep 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers have discovered a new mechanism in mice that shows how the exposure to the illicit drug methamphetamine (METH) during pregnancy can adversely affect the developing fetal ...
