Two minutes of magnetic stimulation can change your brain for an hour
...to study how the healthy brain reacts to injury or damage but scientists have recently started to explore its possibilities as a treatment for depression, epilepsy, stroke and Parkinson's disease. A handful of studies have already shown potential therapeutic benefits from TMS. The advantage of TMS is that i...Diet, exercise, stimulating environment helps old dogs learn
...ggests that antioxidants might reduce free radical damage to neurons in the brain, which scientists believe is involved in age-associated learning and memory problems. Mitochondrial co-factors may help neurons function more efficiently, slash free radical production and lead to improvements in brain functio...Future of clinical medicine research is at risk, warns professor
... clinical work in the new consultant contract will damage the future of clinical research in the UK, a University of Edinburgh Professor will state in his inaugural lecture on Tuesday,18 January,2005. Professor Andrew Greening fears that the ability to develop skills in research will be lost to many young d...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
...onic development, hair cells are very sensitive to damage from excessive noise, infections or toxins including some medications. Once damaged, hair cells do not naturally regenerate in mammals, and their death accounts for most types of acquired hearing loss. Cells grow and divide through a process called...Exposed: Tobacco industrys' efforts to cast doubt
...which appeared to cast doubt on a link between p53 damage and benzo[a]pyrene in tobacco smoke. In two instances research arguing against a connection was undertaken and published by individuals with links to tobacco companies. Both studies were published in a journal, whose editor-in-chief, has an extensi...Information fusion research simulates disasters to manage emergency response
... as soon as the first two reports of casualties or damage are received. "Our program is designed to suggest likely scenarios and to provide confidence measures associated with each of those scenarios," he said. The software will provide those scenarios and measurements within minutes or secon...Shakespeare's writings indicate he may have had syphilis
...ght be obtained by examining the shinbones for the damage typical of an advanced case of syphilis or by testing for elevated levels of mercury that could indicate STD treatment. Until then, "it's something that can't be proven or disproven," Dr. Ross said, but Shakespeare's own warning on his gravestone ("B...FDA approves Pfizer's Lyrica for the treatment of the two most common forms of neuropathic pain
...ost debilitating forms of pain, is caused by nerve damage that can result from underlying conditions, such as diabetes or shingles. Nearly half of the 18 million Americans with diabetes will develop some form of diabetic neuropathy over the course of their disease and about one in six diabetes patients wil...The sustained benefits of very early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with anti-TNF-alpha therapy
...at improve the signs and symptoms of RA and reduce damage as shown by joint X-rays All twenty RA patients adhered to their assigned treatment for a full year. To closely monitor the impact of anti-TFN-alpha therapy on synovitis, the inflammation of the membrane lining the joints, as well as bone erosions, ...Mayo Clinic discovery on nature of rheumatoid arthritis lung disease may offer patients therapy
...iscover how these are related to its cause and the damage to the joints, lungs and other tissues of the body...out symptoms, as in the early stages of both joint damage and RA lung disease. Symptoms can include joint pain, stiffness, inflammation, persistent cough, sho...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...duces the number of babies born with hypoxic brain damage as well as unnecessary Caesarean sections. "The um...ion in unnecessary C-sections and no hypoxic brain damage in babies monitored during labor with the device. "When you get heart rate patterns where the cond...Antibiotics protect nerves in mice by turning on genes
...cs that includes penicillin may help prevent nerve damage and death in a wide variety of neurological diseas...st as symptoms tend to surface, delayed both nerve damage and symptoms and extended survival by 10 days compared to untreated animals. Lou Gehrig's disease, o...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage 'plague'
Millions of patients suffering from liver damage (cirrhosis) and failure may benefit from research ...and heart trouble, have made dramatic gains, liver damage --described as the new plague of the 21st century --has yet to be understood and in turn, to become ...Scientists uncover new mechanism for the amygdala in fear recognition
... fear. The findings suggest that the amygdala damage disrupts the patient's ability to direct her own gaze toward the eyes in other people's faces, which deprives her of the critical visual cues to detect fearful expressions. If the patient could be trained to always look at the eyes, the researche...Study finds heavy drinking linked to higher stroke risk
... nutrients to the brain can result in neurological damage or death. During the course of the 14-year study the authors followed 38,156 participants who are part of the HSPH-based Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Beginning in 1986 and continuing every four years thereafter until 2000, the male particip...Study shows long-term use of NSAIDs causes severe intestinal damage
...Ds) have an increased risk of bleeding and visible damage to their small intestine. "We have always known ...l intestine and learn that NSAIDs can cause severe damage to this organ." Everyday more than 30 million people take over-the-counter and prescription NSAIDs ...UCLA-VA study names India dietary staple as potential Alzheimer's weapon
...ible use for diseases of aging involving oxidative damage and inflammation like Alzheimer's, cancer and heart disease. What we really need, however, are clinical trials to establish safe and effective doses in aging patients." The research was funded by the Siegel Life Foundation, Veterans Affairs, Alzheim...Animal studies show stem cells might make biological pacemaker
... the cells to create a pacemaking signal. If heart damage is extensive, however, it might be preferable to introduce new pacemaking cells, rather than to convert existing cells into pacemakers, notes Li. ...Blocking molecules protects health of implants
...abetics, and other biomaterials from rejection and damage by the body, according to a study published this m... likely it is to be rendered non-functional due to damage induced by the body, said the lead author, Themis Kyriakides, assistant professor of pathology and a......ave been shown in previous studies to overestimate damage by an average of 11 percent. The researchers, wh...ring the size of an infarct and assessing how much damage was done are highly subjective and arbitrary," said senior study author and cardiologist Joo Lima, M...