Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Enhances Short-Term Brain Plasticity
...t two decades have shown that the braincontinually responds to changes in stimuli by reorganizing itself. Thesechanges are often beneficial. For example, people who have been blind from anearly age often use part of the brain region normally employed for vision toprocess sensations from their fingertips, wh...New Drug Prevents Breast Cancer In Postmenopausal Women, UCSF Researchers Report
... tumors' cells contain a protein, orreceptor, that responds to estrogen, stimulating tissue growth in a woman'sbreasts, which can increase her risk of breast cancer. During the UCSF-led study, 7,705 postmenopausal women up to age 80 years (meanage 66.5 years) who have osteoporosis and no history of breast or...WFU And IntraVec To Develop Innovative Cancer And HIV Treatments
...atient's immune system intact and functioning.This responds to opinions expressed at a recent International AIDS Conferencethat new therapies should focus on strengthening patients' immune response toHIV. Annette M. Tobia, J.D., Ph.D., IntraVec's president and CEO, said thatthe HIV-targeted technology...... the immune system of a melanoma patient typically responds tohigh-dose IFNa2b within a few months of administration, we may betterselect patients who are likely to benefit from this therapy and steer thosepatients who are not responding using these parameters to other therapies thatmay provide them a greater...New Concepts Proposed To Investigate Drug Reactions
...pothesis," which states thatthe immune system only responds to foreign substances if they appear to causesome sort of damage leading to a danger signal, rather than sticking to thetraditional view that the immune system will attack anything foreign. Uetrechtsays that researchers should also look at the innat......r tumor cells contain a protein, or receptor, that responds toestrogen and stimulates tissue growth in a woman's breasts, increasing her riskof breast cancer. During the UCSF-led study, which took place at 180 clinical centers, 7,705postmenopausal women (mean age 66.5 years) with osteoporosis who were at a l......imeter channels in the heartmuscle wall. The heart responds by creating tiny blood vessels that provideadditional blood flow. The procedure typically requires a four- to five-dayhospital stay. Choosing TMR is a decision Dr. Frischling doesn't regret. On a scale of 1 to 10,he estimates his level of angina has ...Pain, itself, elicits pain relief, and does so through 'reward' pathway
...onarilyimportant drives. However, the circuit also responds to drugs of abuse, such asheroin, cocaine, amphetamine and nicotine, which seem to hijack the circuitry,altering the behavior of its neurons. The nucleus accumbens is the engine of the reward response. And, in their study,the UCSF researchers determi...UCSF finding could lead to a new class of painkillers
...nal Institutes of Health. The body's immune system responds to many forms of tissue injury by producing an inflammatory response, which includes the release of chemical signals into injured tissue, where they sensitize pain-sensing neurons. As a result, stimuli that normally would not cause pain, such as the......imeter channels in the heartmuscle wall. The heart responds by creating tiny blood vessels that provideadditional blood flow. The procedure typically requires a four- to five-dayhospital stay. Choosing TMR is a decision Dr. Frischling doesn't regret. On a scale of 1 to 10,he estimates his level of angina has...Strain makes for stronger engineered tissues
...rch groups have shown thatengineered smooth muscle responds to mechanical stimuli as well. But the U-Mresearch provides a clearer understanding of exactly how mechanical stimulationleads to increased strength. "The major contribution of this paper is that it demonstrates an interactionbetween the chemistry a...25-minute test distinguishes between different types of schizophrenia
...udden noise or are unexpectedly startled, the body responds to this stimulus, for example by blinking. If the noise is preceded a fraction of second before by a quieter noise, our response to the loud noise is less pronounced. This is an indication of how well the mind can filter information. By simply playin...NIAID public-private partnerships seek to develop HIV/AIDS vaccine
...ontracts that have been awarded. The HVDDT program responds directly to President Clinton's call to increase public-private cooperation in developing vaccines against globally important diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. "Many vaccines in use today resulted from both government-sponsored and p...Brain imaging technology can reveal what a person is thinking about
...d with mental processing, the 'fusiform' face area responds strongly to faces while the 'parahippocampal' place area responds strongly to indoor and outdoor scenes depicting the layout of local space. In this study, Dr. O'Cr...Researchers identify new genetic risk factor for HIV infection
...enetic variations are also known to affect how one responds to HIV, such as the previously discovered CCR5(32 alteration, which prevents the T-cell receptors that HIV uses from being made in the first place. This change makes one extremely resistant to the disease. But Dr. Murphy cautions that people should...Researchers identify a key 'brake' of the immune response
...ce, such as a virus or bacteria, the immune system responds in an elaborate process by making cells and agents that fight off the invaders. But sometimes physicians want to be able to turn off the immune response, such as during bone marrow or organ transplants to prevent the host from rejecting the donor tis...Persistent mild depression in older adults may lower immunity and ability to fight off disease
...response was to mitogens a model for how the body responds to outside agents, like viruses and bacteria. Reported on in this months Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA) is an 18-month prospective study of 78 older adults (average age of 72.5 years old) th...Using cocaine during pregnancy may damage developing fetuses, causing lifelong learning disabilities
... These secondary genes can change the way a neuron responds to a stimulus the next time it occurs. "This is thought to be one mechanism by which a neuron learns," Morrow said. "We believe that the excess activation in the prefrontal cortex plays an important role in the poor short term memory in these." He sa...Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
...e processing took place nearly as fast as the hand responds to the brain's movement commands. The research suggests that subjects can use visual and other feedback to compensate for inaccuracies in the mathematical model - in effect, to learn how to improve the brain's control of cursor movement, researchers ...Study shows synthetic pheromone in womens perfume increases intimate contact with men
...that suggests that this woman can reproduce and he responds with romantic behavior related to securing intimate relations with her, said research author Norma McCoy, an SFSU psychology professor. This is not a smell one can detect, neither the man nor the woman is aware of it, but its very powerful. This chem...