News tagged with brain nerves
Pesticide levels in blood linked to Parkinson's disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 13, 2009 |
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July 13, 2009 - People with Parkinson's disease have significantly higher blood levels of a particular pesticide than healthy people or those with Alzheimer's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical ...
Cell transplants may cure deafness
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed to grow hearing nerves from stem cells and human tissue ...
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Brain cells help neighboring nerves regenerate
May 27, 2008 |
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Researchers have uncovered a completely unexpected way that the brain repairs nerve damage, wherein cells known as astrocytes deliver a protective protein to nearby neurons.
Researchers shed light on fat burning
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Researchers at Georgia State University have found that fat cells give feedback to the brain in order to regulate fat burning much the same way a thermostat regulates temperature inside a house.
Signals from stroking have direct route to brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Nerve signals that tell the brain that we are being slowly stroked on the skin have their own specialised nerve fibres in the skin. This is shown by a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ...
Adult brain cells rediscover their inner child
May 23, 2007 |
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You may not be able to relive your youth, but part of your brain can. Johns Hopkins researchers have found that newly made nerves in an adult brain's learning center experience a one-month period when they are just as active ...
Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scratch an itch and you get ... aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people.
Researchers Develop Wireless Method of Brain Stimulation
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new, wireless method of brain stimulation has the potential to activate specific regions of the brain or restore function to damaged or cut nerves, according to a study by Case Western Reserve ...
Uncertainties prevail over human health benefits of polyphenols
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Despite scores of studies documenting the effects of healthful plant nutrients called polyphenols in protecting nerves from damage, it would be "unwise" to assume that the same protective effects occur for Alzheimer's disease ...
Study: Stem cells report olfactory nerves
Apr 30, 2007 |
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U.S. researchers identified a "backup supply" of stem cells that can repair the most severely damaged nerves responsible for human olfactory sense.
Immune cells contribute to the development of Parkinson's disease
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Parkinson disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that impairs movement, balance, speech, and other functions. It is characterized by the loss of nerves in the brain that produce a substance known as dopamine. Although the ...
Getting on your nerves... and repairing them
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Feb 15, 2007 |
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Here is some news that will certainly get on people's nerves: In a study to be published in the March 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists from East Carolina University report that a key molecular mechanism, RNA interference ...
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