Slow growth in infancy signals poor economic prospects in adulthood
... physical growth might also be accompanied by slow brain development or reduced physical activity and therefore less sensory stimulation....Regular cannabis may increase risk of stroke in young users
...was followed, a few hours later, by convulsions. A brain scan revealed one patch of bleeding and another bl... weakness on one side of his body (hemiparesis). A brain scan revealed a further small patch of bleeding as well as another blood clot, but in different area...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...loped ever more sensitive ways of peering into the brain to seek out explanations for brain disease. In most cases these technologies are good news for patients, bringing new ways of understan...Lead in the environment causes violent crime, reports University of Pittsburgh researcher at AAAS
... a technique called X-ray fluorescence, can affect brain development. In a 1996 Pitt study of 301 children, those with the highest concentrations of lead still below government-recommended safe levels had tests scores showing more aggression, attentional disorders and delinquency. In 2002, those findings...Drugs used to treat Alzheimer's in nursing homes are worsening sufferers' illness
...th marked deterioration of memory and other higher brain functions (cognitive decline). This is particularly significant as quetiapine had been regarded as one of the safer of the antipsychotic drugs available, say the authors. The study looked at 93 patients with dementia across the north east of En...Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...we can use certain drugs like Viagra to create new brain cells," says Michael Chopp, Ph.D., scientific dire...ater there is reduced neurological deficit and new brain cells," says Dr. Chopp. Viagra was selected as the drug to test because it is chemically similar to ...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...hers have uncovered significant differences in the brain activity of men and women when engaged in a broad ...men and women have nicotine in their bodies, these brain activity differences practically disappear. Among both smokers and non-smokers on nicotine, during a...Impact of scientific advances on drug studies and membrane research to be explored
...ersity of Oxford, who will discuss the role of the brain and biotechnology in the future; and Lee Silver, professor of molecular biology at Princeton University, who will present "Challenging Mother Nature: Biotechnology in a Spiritual World." The first day of the conference is geared toward the general pu...Changing chemistry helps explain estrogen threat to the heart
... would this do to Alzheimer's? What happens to the brain is probably very similar," he says as critical cofactors drop that enable estrogen to relax blood vessels. "This could be a mechanism that would affect practically every system in the body."...Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
...ing patients, they will be able to look at the way brain tumours and cancers grow and develop and how diffe...kes and will enable them to understand the way the brain recovers in stroke patients. The scanner will also benefit researchers carrying out work into menta...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
...h one seeks to solve the mysteries of the mind and brain and the other explores the universe, they are real...ange from the discovery of opiate receptors in the brain -- work for which he shared the prestigious Albert Lasker Award in 1978 -- to proof that gases can s...Test could improve detection of prion disease in humans
...found that CDI not only identifies prions in human brain tissue but is faster and far more precise than the...n the study, Prusiner and his colleagues extracted brain tissue from 28 people who had died of CJD. They tested these samples using CDI, which uses highly sp...Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
The adolescent brain is designed to learn; yet the same plasticity that...that clearly implicates alcohol use as a source of brain damage during these critical formative years. Proceedings are published in the February issue of A...COX-2 product offers good and bad news in 'test tube' strokes
...din PGD2 has a protective or harmful effect in the brain depending on where it docks on a brain cell's surface. After brain cells experience the laboratory equivalent of a stroke, PDG2 can protect...Transport system smuggles medicines into brain
... so-called blood-brain barrier (BBB), protects the brain from toxic substances. It only lets through important nutrients for the brain such as iron, glucose and oxygen. Visser allowed larger molecules, such as medicines, to pass throug...Nonhuman primate males more susceptible to age-related cognitive decline than females
...emales differ in age-related reduction of specific brain regions involved in spatial memory....Brain synapse formation linked to proteins, Stanford study finds
...f. - Critical connections that neurons form in the brain during development turn out to rely on common but ...onal roles, also unknown. "Ninety percent of human brain cells are glia and it's completely a mystery what they do," he said. These previous experiments simp...'Broken heart' syndrome: Real, potentially deadly but recovery quick
...r stress-related proteins, such as neuropeptide Y, brain natriuretic peptide and serotonin. These results provided added confirmation that the syndrome was stress induced. Heart biopsies also showed an injury pattern consistent with a high catecholamine state and not heart attack. A hallmark feature of t...PCBs, fungicide open brain cells to Parkinson's assault
... new and intricate reactions that occur in certain brain cells, making them more vulnerable to injury after... nerve cells in the substantia nigra region of the brain die or can no longer produce the brain chemical dopamine. A lack of dopamine is what causes patients...NYU psychology researchers show how attention enhances visual perception
...ork University have determined the location in the brain where involuntary attention enhances visual proces...ies an increase in neural activity in areas of the brain that respond to the attended stimulus--that is, to the information that is selectively processed at ...