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• Blindsight – Not knowing you can see

  
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  5-a-side football for the blind – Photo Credit: Marcello Casal Jr/ABr There are some people that can respond to visual stimuli even though they are blind. They can’t consciously see, yet they can unconsciously avoid obstacles. This phenomenon is called blindsight. The people who have it have had lesions to ...
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• Rape Trauma Syndrome and PTSD

  
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  People who experience a traumatic event often feel sad, anxious, scared, or disconnected. Therapy related to trauma may be helpful if painful memories of the event will not fade, or if a person continues to have a sense of danger after the actual trauma is over.
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• Brain diseases affecting more people and starting earlier than ever before

  
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   "Professor Colin Pritchards latest research published in journal Public Health has found that the sharp rise of dementia and other neurological deaths in people under 74 cannot be put down to the fact that we are living longer. The rise is because a higher proportion of old people are being affected by such ...
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• Lyme Disease Vaccine Shows Promise in Clinical Trial

  
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  A new vaccine for Lyme disease, a neurological and physically debilitating tick borne disease, has proved promising and well tolerated by patients, according to researchers. The Lyme vaccine is shown to produce substantial antibodies against all targeted species of Borrelia, the causative agent of Lyme disease.
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• Picture of the Day: A “wiring diagram” of the monkey brain

  
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  Jan. 31, 2013: Cognitive Computing researchers at IBM are developing a new generation of “neuro-synaptic” computer chips inspired by the organization and function of the brain. For guidance into how to connect many such chips in a large brain-like network, they turn to a “wiring diagram” of the monkey brain as ...
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• A Toxic Cascade: When the Brain Consumes Itself [Slide Show]

  
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  In recent years neuroscientists have come upon an astonishing revelation: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s and other major brain diseases may have a similar underlying cause. They may all result from the mis-folding of proteins in a process similar to the one linked to mad cow and other prion-based ...
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• Effects of neural progenitor cell transplantation in children with severe cerebral palsy

  
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  Cerebral palsy (CP) is a chronic nervous system disease that severely damages the physical and developmental health of children. Traditional treatment brings about only improvement of mild to moderate CP, but severe CP still lacks effective interventions. To explore safety and efficacy of using neural progenitor cells ...
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• Administration of autologous bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells in children with incurable neurological disorders and injury is safe and improves their quality of life

  
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  Neurological disorders such as muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and injury to the brain and spine currently have no known definitive treatments or cures. A study was carried out on 71 children suffering from such incurable neurological disorders and injury. They were intrathecally and intramuscularly administered ...
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• VIDEO: Walking Tall Across Michigan for Charity

  
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  A Michigan stilt walker is trekking hundreds of miles across state in a fundraising effort. Neil Sauter plans to trek 400 miles over the next month as part of an effort to raise money for the United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan. (April 24) Thanks for checking us out. Please take a look at the rest of our ...
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