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Headaches take toll on soldiers

Troops evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan with headaches unlikely to return to duty; heavy helmets a major factor Headaches, a virtually universal human complaint at one time or another, are among the top reasons for medic ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dementia linked to high blood pressure years earlier

High blood pressure may put women at greater risk for dementia later in life by increasing white matter abnormalities in the brain, report researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brain scans show distinctive patterns in people with generalized anxiety disorder

Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study from the Stanford University School ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Surgery potentially best option for severe migraine headaches

The disability from migraine headaches is an enormous health burden affecting over 30 million Americans.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rising above the din: Attention makes sensory signals stand out amidst the background noise in the brain

The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies studying visual attention ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

When it comes to intelligence, size matters

A collaborative study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University has demonstrated a positive link between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in the brains of healthy ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Prenatal alcohol exposure damages white matter, the brain's connective network

One part of the prenatal brain that may be particularly sensitive to alcohol's effects is white matter, nerve fibers through which information is exchanged between different areas of the central nervous system. A recent ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nerve stimulation therapy alleviates pain for chronic headache

A novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders improved the experience of pain by 80-95 percent, according to a new study from the University ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0


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