Nutritionist are taking a closer look at the role the B vitamins may play in preventing decline in brain function.
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August 17, 2010
B vitamins and the aging brain examined
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July 15, 2010
Obesity harms women’s memory and brain function
The more an older woman weighs, the worse her memory, according to new research. The effect is more pronounced in women who carry excess weight around their hips, known as pear shapes, than women who carry it around their waists, called apple shapes. The study of post-menopausal women is the first in the US to link obesity to poorer memory in women and to identify the body shape connection.
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July 1, 2010
Childhood malnutrition could weaken brain function in elderly
Malnutrition early in life appears to diminish brain function in older adulthood, according to a new study that has implications for many poor, developing nations.
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February 26, 2010
Special Issue Of NeuroRehabilitation Focuses On Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injuries
IOS Press announces publication of a special issue of NeuroRehabilitation: An International Journal (NRE) devoted specifically to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HI-BI), a significant disruption of brain function due to a deficient supply of oxygen to the brain. This is the first publication to present a consolidated overview of HI-BI...
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February 25, 2010
A Tale of Two Studies: Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping
Brain imaging has contributed greatly to our understanding of the functional neuroataomy of the human brain. A lot these contributions have been blogged about by my bestest buddy Neuroskeptic (why don't you return my phone calls anymore!?). One of the more popular methods used to capture brain function is the functional magnetic resonance (fMRI). However, the results of fMRI studie
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February 15, 2010
Common thread links multiple human cognitive disorders
A new study reveals that a common underlying mechanism is shared by a group of previously unrelated disorders which all cause complex defects in brain development and function. It helps to explain why these different chromatin abnormalities all interfere with proper gene expression patterns necessary for normal development and mature brain function.
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February 1, 2010
Objective Diagnosis Of PTSD Using Magnetoencephalography
Objective diagnosis is in someways the holy grail of medicine. It has been maddeningly elusivein psychiatry. Now comes a paper in which the authors suggestthat they may have found this treasure.The paper details a method of using magnetoencephalography to assesshuman brain function. They claim that, in a select population, itcan correctly identify patients with PTSD with 90% acc
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January 26, 2010
Gene therapy study seeks to improve brain function in Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) researchers are testing the effectiveness of gene therapy for the first time to treat patients with this common brain disease. A total of 12 institutions are participating in a nationwide study to test the experimental medication, CERE-110.
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December 2, 2009
Childhood lead exposure causes permanent brain damage
A study using functional magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate brain function revealed that adults who were exposed to lead as children incur permanent brain injury.
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November 13, 2009
Taking the neurotrash out
Neuroscientist Raymond Tallis has a barn-storming and somewhat bad tempered article in The New Humanist where he rails against the increasing tendency to explain everything from beauty to crime in terms of brain function.He begins by criticising how neuroscience is now appearing as a handy 'neuro-' prefix to more and more areas of human society, leading to the likes of "neuro-jurisprudence, neuro
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