First of its kind report on how children with brain tumors perform at school
ST. PAUL, MN -- While children who have had brain tumors perform worse in school than healthy kids, ...s the first time the actual grades and subjects of brain tumor survivors have been reported. These results will help us identify brain tumor survivors who ...Chemical in brain acts like a fuel gauge
...t sends a low blood sugar message to a part of the brain that can do something about it. The neurotransmi... study. How that information is processed by the brain is really a hot current topic. Knowing how neurons relay hypoglycemia warnings is critical to unde...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
...t. Since PET-CT proved ideal for cancer, body and brain imaging, everyone assumed its application to the heart would work with the same protocols and software a big mistake. Gould, a preventive cardiologist, has been using traditional PET imaging throughout his medical career to detect heart disease, t...Case study: cross-cultural bioethics training program helps fight African 'brain drain'
...e to the United States or Europe, its often called brain drain. In the world of research ethics, at least one training program is causing the opposite effect. Now entering its eighth year of operation, the Johns Hopkins Fogarty African Research Ethics Training Program is the subject of a sweeping new case ...'Cars' imaging reveals clues to myelin damage
...m to properly conduct impulses in the spinal cord, brain and peripheral nervous system throughout the body. The findings suggest that LPC causes sheath degradation by allowing an influx of calcium ions into the myelin. The increased concentration of calcium ions then activates two enzymes - calpain and c...Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
... powerful computers to calculate what parts of the brain were active as subjects saw their money go to the ...hat two evolutionarily ancient regions deep in the brain the caudate nucleus and the nucleus accumbens fired when subjects saw the charity get the money. T...Future therapies for stroke may block cell death
...llular events take place that lead to the death of brain cells. Compounds that inhibit a group of enzymes called histone deacetylases can modulate gene expression, and in some cases produce cellular proteins that are actually neuroprotective -- they are able to block cell death. "For the first time, we s...Children's brain responses predict impact of sleep loss on attention
WESTCHESTER, Ill. The brain responses of those children who don't get enough s...300 waveform information (a component of the human brain wave associated with attention control) from children between the ages of four and eight who experie...Simple test predicts 6-year risk of dementia
...as part of a routine clinical visit. These include brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of enlarged ventricles the fluid-filled cavities between brain tissue -- or diseased white matter the nerve cells that transmit signals between grey matter; thick...How to lose weight and not go hungry: HU researcher develops drug that mimics feeling of 'fullness'
...reted during eating and binds to a receptor in the brain called MC4R. When this communication occurs on a substantial level, the brain sends out a signal that one feels full. The young Hebrew university researchers developed a nove...Study outlines how stroke, head injury can increase risk of Alzheimer's disease
...orders (MGH-MIND) have discovered how the death of brain cells caused by a stroke or head injury may cause ...r's disease is characterized by plaques within the brain of amyloid-beta protein, which is toxic to brain cells. Amyloid-beta is formed when the larger amylo...Advances in understanding bipolar disorder topics of press briefings June 7, 8
...heir latest findings in identifying changes in the brain chemistry linked to bipolar disorder and using neuroimaging to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder. 1:15 p.m., Friday, June 8 Comorbidities of Bipolar Disorder: Causes and Impact More often than not, a person with bipolar di...QBI scientist looks at why stroke causes vision problems
...s, the researchers applied painless and reversible brain stimulation to the parietal lobe in 16 healthy vol...s. By measuring "saccadic eye movements" during brain stimulation, Professor Mattingley's team showed specific areas of the parietal lobe use signals from...Study identifies new regulator of fat metabolism
...sugar levels drop substantially so that muscle and brain have to turn to alternative fuels, explains senior author Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, MD, an investigator in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Consequently, ...Explaining a link between strokes and Alzheimer's
...has shown how an incident of reduced oxygen to the brain caused by the stroke can leave the patient vulne...ooking into what happens when oxygen levels in the brain are reduced by a number of factors, from long-term conditions like emphysema and angina, to sudden i...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
...-beta, which accumulates in amyloid plaques in the brain of Alzheimers patients. Despite unknown mechanisms...roduction of this peptide may cause impairments of brain functions. When the A-beta protein comes together inside the plaque, it will fold into an abnormal...Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain
...ntal cortex, the site of emotion and learning. The brain seems to remember the injury as if it were fresh a...persistent nerve pain by targeting the part of the brain that experiences the emotional suffering of pain. The drug is D-Cycloserine, which has been used to ...Low doses of ecstasy associated with decline in verbal memory
...ed to affect only verbal memory points to specific brain areas and chemicals that may be affected by the dr...of additive effects of Ecstasy use on aging of the brain is needed....Stanford researchers track human stem cells transplanted into rat brain
... human neural disorders, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease or radiation damage. ...s used in this study were able to migrate toward a brain region in rats that mimicked a human stroke. They also found that those cells matured into the types...Blocking stress protein decreases Alzheimer's peptide in mice
...2006 that stress increases production in mice of a brain peptide critical to Alzheimer's disease. Now the same group has shown that blocking a different brain peptide slows the stress-induced increase, opening a new door to treatment. Researchers from Washing...