News tagged with cerebral blood

US begins stem cell trial for hearing loss

US researchers have begun a groundbreaking trial to test the potential of umbilical cord blood transplants, a kind of stem cell therapy, to treat and possibly reverse hearing loss in infants.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Notre Dame researchers report fundamental malaria discovery

A team of researchers led by Kasturi Haldar and Souvik Bhattacharjee of the University of Notre Dame's Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases has made a fundamental discovery in understanding how malaria parasites cause deadly ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Form and function: New MRI technique to diagnose or rule out Alzheimer's disease

On the quest for safe, reliable and accessible tools to accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found a new way of diagnosing and tracking ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Advances in brain imaging can expedite research and diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common problem that is becoming progressively burdensome throughout the world. A new supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Imaging the Alzheimer Brain, clearly shows that multiple imagin ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds chronic abnormal brain blood flow in Gulf War veterans

Blood flow abnormalities found in the brains of veterans with Gulf War illness have persisted 20 years after the war, and in some cases have gotten worse, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

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created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Profound reorganization in brains of adults who stutter

Hearing Beethoven while reciting Shakespeare can suppress even a King's stutter, as recently illustrated in the movie "The King's Speech". This dramatic but short-lived effect of hiding the sound of one's own speech indicates ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Moderate exercise improves brain blood flow in elderly women

Research conducted at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas suggests that it's never too late for women to reap the benefits of moderate aerobic exercise. In a 3-month ...

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created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Functional boost for magnetic resonance imaging

Over the last few years, researchers have used a type of brain scanning, known as functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI, to help them map changes in blood flow in the brain and to correlate this with thoughts and behavior. ...

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created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Malaria-infected cells stiffen, block blood flow

Although the incidence of malaria has declined in all but a few countries worldwide, according to a World Health Organization report earlier this month, malaria remains a global threat. Nearly 800,000 people ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hemodynamic responses to the mother's face in infants by near-infrared spectroscopy

A Japanese research group led by Prof. Ryusuke Kakigi and Dr. Emi Nakato (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS) and Prof. Masami K Yamaguchi (Chuo University) found that there was the different hemodynamic ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early use of hypertonic fluids does not appear to improve outcomes for severe traumatic brain injury

Patients with a severe traumatic brain injury (and not in shock because of blood loss) who received out-of-hospital administration of hypertonic fluids (a solution with increased concentration of certain electrolytes and ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Food for thought, er, well... Study finds brain wolfs energy to stop thinking

Ever wonder why it's such an effort to forget about work while on vacation or to silence that annoying song that's playing over and over in your head?

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created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Antibiotic may reduce stroke risk and injury in diabetics

A daily dose of an old antibiotic may help diabetics avoid a stroke or at least minimize its damage, Medical College of Georgia researchers report.

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created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Antioxidants may help prevent malaria complicaton that leads to learning impairment

Using an experimental mouse model for malaria, an international group of scientists has discovered that adding antioxidant therapy to traditional antimalarial treatment may prevent long-lasting cognitive impairment in cerebral ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blood flows differently through the brains of schizophrenic patients

Researchers in Germany have used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) to map cerebral blood flow patterns in schizophrenic patients quickly and without using radiation ...

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created May 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast