Chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer can provoke significant cognitive impairment. After chemotherapy, up to 70% of cancer survivors can report difficulties with memory and concentration […]
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Smoking damages mouse brains. Signs of Alzheimer’s disease appear after rodents breathe cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke damages the lungs, but it also wreaks havoc in […]
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Brain lesions can predict Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Damage to small blood vessels in the brain could be a secondary risk factor leading to Alzheimer’s Disease, a […]
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Engineering control theory helps create dynamic brain models. Models of the human brain, patterned on engineering control theory, may some day help researchers control such […]
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How seals sleep with only half their brain at a time. A new study led by an international team of biologists has identified some of […]
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Brain scans may one day be used to predict dementia. Using brain scans, researchers were able to monitor mental decline over a two-year period in […]
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Scans reveal intricate brain wiring. Scientists are set to release the first batch of data from a project designed to create the first map of […]
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Brain implants give lab rats a sixth sense and let them “touch” light Scientists from Duke University have found a way to make rats “feel” […]
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Mindfulness meditation: how it works in the brain. Mindfulness may be successful in helping with a range of conditions, from depression to pain, by working […]
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Sleep and memory in the aging brain. New findings reveal a connection between sleep and memory, and shed light on why forgetfulness is common in […]
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Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified. Certain forms of dementia may be caused by a gene mutation that makes proteins in the brain clump together, […]
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Chemical reaction keeps stroke-damaged brain from repairing itself. Nitric oxide, a gaseous molecule produced in the brain, can damage neurons. When the brain produces too […]
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Tool sprays brain to find tumors quickly. A new tool that sprays a stream of charged solvent onto tissue may one day help brain surgeons […]
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Magnetic brain activity may reveal schizophrenia. Magnetic fields produced by the brain’s natural electrical currents may be used in the future as an objective test […]
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Shortage of brain tissue sets autism research back. Research on autism is being hobbled by a shortage of brain tissue. The brain tissue comes from […]
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Medicare panel says Alzheimer’s brain scans may not help. Advanced brain scans to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease may be denied coverage by Medicare after […]
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Obama concerned about brain injuries in football. President Obama has weighed in on the subject of brain injuries in football, saying that as a parent, […]
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How brain cells lift mood in the sleepless. Neuroscientists have discovered an interesting biological link between depression and sleep. Researchers from Tufts University determined star-shaped […]
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Mediterranean diet may not protect the aging brain. Despite hopes that a Mediterranean-style diet would be as good for the head as it is for […]
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First brain pacemaker implanted to treat Alzheimer’s. During a five-hour surgery last October at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, a patient became the […]
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From genes to brain: Schizophrenia untangled. An early defect in a critical neurological pathway may be responsible for the onset of schizophrenia later in life. […]
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Oxygen chamber can boost brain repair years after stroke or trauma. Stroke, traumatic injury, and metabolic disorder are major causes of brain damage and permanent […]
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Scan may detect signs of NFL players’ brain disease. An insidious, microscopic protein that has been found in the brain tissue of professional football players […]
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