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Faulty 'wiring' in the brain triggers onset of schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King's College London has discovered abnormalities in the white matter of the brain that seem to be critical for the timing of schizophrenia. The study, led ...


Familiar and newly learned words are processed by the same neural networks in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Our vocabulary continues to grow and expand even in adulthood. Just ten years ago, the word 'blog' did not yet exist - and now we no longer remember when we heard this word for the first time or when we learned its meaning. ...


Blood test predicts chance of dementia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium) researchers connected to the Born-Bunge Institute and the University of Antwerp discovered the amount of growth factor progranulin in blood is a predictor of Frontotemporal ...


Evidence appears to show how and where frontal lobe works

Evidence appears to show how and where frontal lobe works

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(Physorg.com) -- A Brown University study of stroke victims has produced evidence that the frontal lobe of the human brain controls decision-making along a continuum from abstract to concrete, from front to ...





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Words, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication ...


Theory about long and short-term memory questioned

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The long-held theory that our brains use different mechanisms for forming long-term and short-term memories has been challenged by new research from UCL, published today in PNAS.


Psychiatric impact of torture could be amplified by head injury

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), based ...


Think twice before you boo your competitor

Think twice before you boo your competitor

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Next time you watch a heavy weight lifting tournament, tell the person next to you not to boo the person that he doesn't want to win.


Turn On, Tune In, Develop?

Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...


The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...


New treatment option emerging for some with early stage lung cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with early stage, non-small cell lung cancer who are not able to undergo surgery, now have a highly effective treatment option. Physicians say that option, radical stereotactic radiosurgery performed with CyberKnife, ...


Stereotactic radiotherapy stops lung cancer from growing in frail patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) stopped the growth of cancer at its original site in the lung for three years among nearly 98 percent of patients with early non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are unable to ...


Study shows that sleep deprivation can negatively affect information processing

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study in the Nov.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explic ...


Left side grafting is procedure of choice for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent study by doctors at Shinshu University, School of Medicine, in Japan determined that left side grafting has lower risk to donors compared to grafts taken from the right lobe, and it appears to be the procedure of ...



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