The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy by Dr. Harry Preuss
... people in America have low levels of serotonin, a brain chemical that controls appetite and mood. The result: overeating. 5-HTP is a natural amino acid that boosts serotonin, helping decrease food cravings and also creating a calm state of mind that is less vulnerable to emotional overeating. In an Italia...Cholesterol in stroke patients exceeds national guidelines
...lines. TIA happens when blood flow to part of the brain is reduced for a short period of time, but then returns, resulting in temporary neurological symptoms. "If this high cholesterol had been recognized and the guidelines been followed, then 93 percent of these people would have been treated with chol...Alcohol interventions that teach practical skills work best with high-risk university students
...ong term, risk of permanent damage to the body and brain and alcohol dependence. "Almost all universities have alcohol policies, and interventions greatly differ from one university to another," said Sthlbrandt. "The skills-training program used in our study is based on cognitive-skill intervention and...Cancer drug can extend survival in patients with deadly brain tumors
...w the growth of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer, a pilot study conducted at Duke University...he first time that Avastin has been tested against brain tumors, the researchers said. The drug, whose chemical name is bevacizumab, currently is used to tre...Penn researchers find that chronic dizziness may be caused by psychiatric and neurologic illnesses
...luding anxiety disorders, migraine, mild traumatic brain injuries, and neurally mediated dysautonomias dis...r secondary anxiety disorders, migraine, traumatic brain injury and neurally mediated dysautonomias," said Ruckenstein. Most patients (59.7%) had CSD with a...U of MN doctors uncover treatment for advanced ALD patients
...e patients to survive transplant. Post transplant brain scans showed a decrease in inflammation and preservation of myelin after administering NAC. We believe that NAC can also help patients with less advanced cases of ALD, and possibly other diseases of inflammation of the myelin, said Lawrence Charnas,...Sick teens in crisis: Organ transplant patients may die when insurance for medicine runs out
...ncer, liver disease, heart/lung disease, aging and brain disease, and infectious disease....Fixed versus growth intelligence mindsets: Its all in your head, Dweck says
...and how they could learn to be smartdescribing the brain as a muscle that became stronger the more it was used. A control group also learned study skills but they were not taught Dweck's expandable theory of intelligence. In just two months, she said, the students from the first group, compared to the cont...UCLA expert to discuss medical consequences of meth abuse at AAAS
...y research contributions are in the application of brain imaging methods to the study of substance abuse. H...ehavior. Her presentation will review how various brain imaging techniques have been used to help understand brain dysfunction in individuals with MA depend...Low-pitch treatment alleviates ringing sound of tinnitus
... balanced stimulation, rather than masking, is the brain mechanism underlying this surprising finding."...Vasectomy may put men at risk for type of dementia
...ing. The most common form of dementia caused by brain deterioration in individuals over age 65 is Alzhei.... Many patients with FTD and PPA share a common brain disease that is completely different from Alzheimer's. Whether a patient will get the behavioral or ...New data supports a non-invasive approach to routine prenatal genetic testing
...ons from RhD disease can lead to jaundice, anemia, brain damage, heart failure, and death. "We are making significant progress in developing our proprietary Fetal Nucleic Acid Technology and anticipate applying our novel approach to multiple prenatal tests such as tests for RhD, cystic fibrosis, Down ...Revealing secret intentions in the brain
...riend or to make an appointment. How and where the brain stores these intentions has been revealed by John-...le to "read" participants’ intentions out of their brain activity. This was made possible by a new combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging and s...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
...ch at MIT applied a computational model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real wo...le have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long time," said Poggio, who is also the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain...Common anesthetic may induce cell death, generation of Alzheimer's-associated protein
...r's disease is characterized by plaques within the brain of amyloid-beta protein (A-beta), which is toxic to brain cells. A-beta is formed when the larger amyloid precursor protein (APP) is clipped by two enzymes --...Mechanism of hallucinogens' effects discovered
The brain mechanism underlying the mind-bending effects of h...erotonin. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that one brain cell launches at receptors on another to trigger a nerve impulse in the receiving cell. However, a f...Performing surgery on a beating heart may be safer
...inflammation, which includes complications such as brain swelling, heart arrhythmia and infections. According to Raja, performing the surgery on the beating heart, while more technically challenging for the surgeon, keeps these side effects low and allows for a quicker recovery. If the surgeons are skill...Vaginal birth increases risk of hemorrhage in newborns
...e of Radiology. "Small bleeds in and around the brain are very common in infants who are born vaginally,...gh the birth canal. This shifting can compress the brain or cause blood vessels to tear, which causes bleeding. Most of the bleeds identified were very sma...MR angiography highly accurate in detecting blocked arteries
...duce detailed images of the arteries supplying the brain and can detect even minor degrees of narrowing or blockage. It does not involve exposure to x-rays and is widely regarded as a very safe, painless test," Dr. Nael said. The researchers studied 80 patients (44 men and 36 women) with suspected arteri......c community to explore autism lie predominantly in brain and behavior research. This disconnect between t...d published scientific papers on autism dealt with brain and behavior research, only 11 percent of newspaper stories in the United States, United Kingdom and...