Cranberries may help reduce stroke damage
...e severity of stroke," she says. Neurons from the brains of several rats were collected for this study. After placing the neurons in tissue culture, millions of cells were grown and then divided into different treatment groups with varying concentrations of cranberry juice. Under simulated conditions of st...Anticonvulsant drug promising therapy for cocaine abuse
...dopamine, the 'feel-good' chemical that floods the brains of cocaine users, providing the 'high' they crave," says Dr. Frank Vocci, Director, Division of Treatment Research and Development, National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Using GVG to temper the dopamine system may very effectively block the addiction-re...Salk news: A new view on brain function
...rs, and the long-distance communication systems in brains have been optimized by evolution for energy efficiency. "In the past, we were only able to look at brain function by looking at single neurons or local networks of neurons. We were only able to see the trees, so to speak," said Sejnowski. "With brea...NYU School of Medicine attracts a powerful MRI machine
...ure of a chemical called N-acetyl aspartate in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis. Early studies suggest that patients with an imbalance in this chemical may benefit most from aggressive therapy. In addition, the field of molecular imaging allows researchers to look at more of the fine detai...Stages of memory described in new study
... Our new research helps explain the process in our brains that enable us to first create the memories and then to stabilize and 'save' the memories we've created." The findings then go on to explain how memories can later be "edited" once they've been saved. Walker, who conducted the research while at the M...Alzheimer's Association cautious about new Alzheimer treatment research with antibiotics
...are found in the spaces between nerve cells in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. While researchers still do not know what causes Alzheimer's, it is widely believed that the production of amyloid plaques is a central feature of the disease. Some laboratory studies have shown that rifampin may i......ies of these rats still functioned normally, their brains had already started to function differently. This ...brain reduces fertility. Generally speaking, human brains regulate the reproductive system in the same manner as rat brains. However, an important difference ...Study confirms benefits of hemispherectomy surgery
...who have had disabling strokes. Because children's brains are "plastic," if surgeons remove the affected portion of the brain, the remaining portion overtakes most of the functions of the missing side. Hemispherectomy was first attempted in the 1920s by Hopkins neurosurgeon Walter E. Dandy, M.D. It was rein...Monkeys consciously control a robot arm using only brain signals
...ot arm in real time, using only signals from their brains and visual feedback on a video screen. The scienti...hair -- into the frontal and parietal lobes of the brains of two female rhesus macaque monkeys. They implanted 96 electrodes in one animal and 320 in the othe...Brain may 'hard-wire' sexuality before birth
...ompared the production of genes in male and female brains in embryonic mice -- long before the animals devel... said. "But we discovered that the male and female brains differed in many measurable ways, including anatomy and function." In one intriguing example, the tw...New mouse model of Alzheimer's, other diseases may clarify steps of brain degeneration
...r to six weeks on doxycycline, which allowed their brains to develop normally. Once the mice were mature, Ts...model produces the results she expected. The mouse brains show a high accumulation of p25, substantial atrophy, progressive neuronal loss and tau pathology. A...Brain maps perceptions, not reality
... to study the reaction to the same illusion in the brains of squirrel monkeys. Intrinsic signal optical imag...rceptions have a great deal to do with the way our brains are wired." Roe's team will continue to study how the brain processes sensory input and illusions, t...Drug improves brain structure in Alzheimer's patients
...lieve the drug may have a protective effect on the brains of Alzheimer's patients because it appears to slow the progression of the disease by reducing atrophy in the hippocampus, a region of the brain that is critical to memory function and is affected earliest in AD. "When someone has Alzheimer's disease,...Gender differences in brain response to pain
...in men and women, several areas of male and female brains reacted differently when given the same pain stimulus. The female brain showed greater activity in limbic regions, which are emotion-based centers. In men, the cognitive regions, or analytical centers, showed greater activity. "The reason for the two...Exercise has a more powerful impact on the brain than previously thought
...s colleagues measured the induction of BDNF in the brains of young (2 month), late-middle-aged, (15 month) and old (24 month) rats before and after various periods of exercise. "We found that the induction of BDNF in each age group rose significantly after one week of exercise," says Cotman. When all the gr...Scientists map maturation of the human brain
...nimals such as rats is a stressful experience. The brains of both groups were then examined during young adulthood. The team found that rats exposed to the social stressor did not show the normal increase in synaptophysin during this period. These data suggest that social stress during adolescence causes ei...New vaccine tested in animals may hold hope for Alzheimer's patients
... monkey brains. The amyloid beta protein in monkey brains is the same as that in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, so the hope is that such a vaccine may be effective in humans. The other re...New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
...whether early music training has any effect on the brains of children and their cognitive development. Previous research in adults has shown that the brains of musicians are structurally different from those of non-musicians, but it's not known whether thes...High levels of immune protein in infant brain linked to SIDS
...N High levels of a protein called cytokine in the brains of infants could hold a clue to the cause of Sudde...ican Academy of Neurology. Researchers studied the brains of 27 infants. Nineteen died from SIDS, and eight died from other conditions. The team compared the ...Stem cells from human peripheral blood protect against acute stroke in rats
...ved functional recovery when transplanted into the brains of rats with strokes, report researchers from the University of South Florida College of Medicine and Medical College of Georgia. Paul Sanberg, PhD, DSc, professor of neurosurgery and director of the USF Center for Excellence in Aging and Brain Repai...