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• Making Memories Means New Neurons Must Erase Older Ones

  
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  Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections.
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• Human Expectation Of Pleasure Enhanced By Dopamine

  
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  Enhancing the effects of the brain chemical dopamine influences how people make life choices by affecting expectations of pleasure, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Neurology. The study, published in Current Biology, confirms an important role for dopamine in how human expectations are formed and ...
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• Association Between Consumption Of Certain Fish During Pregnancy And Poorer Cognitive Performance

  
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  Children who eat fish more than 3 times per week show a worse performance in the general cognitive, executive and perceptual-manipulative areas. Those with higher levels of exposure to mercury show a generalised delay in cognitive, memory and verbal areas. Mercury is a contaminant found especially in oily fish and ...
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• Mayo Clinic Neurologist Reports: "Thousands Of NMO Patients Are Misdiagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis"

  
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  Thousands of Neuromyelitis Optica patients are potentially being misdiagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis , according to Mayo Clinic Neurologist Sean Pittock, M.D., largely due to lack of awareness of NMO within [...]
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• Debate on chronic pain left largely out of the loop

  
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  Many Americans suffer from chronic pain. A national panel of experts reports that this condition has been largely under-treated by the medical community and needs to be addressed as an [...]
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• Focused Education Improves Autism, ADHD

  
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  Emerging research suggests structured and concentrated teaching can improve literacy and comprehension in challenged school-aged children. Experts call for teachers and parents to be vigilant in detecting difficulties with language comprehension, reading and spelling in children and young people with autism, ...
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• Discoveries At NJIT Including Drug To Stop Brain Injury Receives $1.4M Funding

  
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  A drug to stop bleeding during a brain injury and a mattress that will prevent bedsores are among the scientific discoveries at NJIT that received earlier this week more than a million dollars in funding from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology.
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• Archives of Neurology 2009 (Vol. 66 No. 11)

  
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  Archives of Neurology 2009 (Vol. 66 No. 11) contents page Fade Fave: Association of Muscle Strength With the Risk of Alzheimer Disease and the Rate of Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Older Persons Fade Skinny: Confirms a link between muscle strength, Alzheimers Disease, and cognitive decline in ...
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• How Modernization Affects Childrens Cognitive Development

  
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  Societal and technological changes have taken place at a dizzying pace over recent decades. A new cross-cultural study aimed to determine whether these dramatic changes have had an effect on the thinking skills that are learned over the course of childhood.
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• Research Reveals Lipids Unexpected Role In Triggering Death Of Brain Cells

  
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  The lipid that accumulates in brain cells of individuals with an inherited enzyme disorder also drives the cell death that is a hallmark of the disease, according to new research led by St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital investigators. The work provides the first evidence that a lipid can initiate the suicidal, ...
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• Side Effects from Borrowed Medications

  
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  A new study finds that 25 percent of people who borrow prescription medications experience side effects. Investigators looked at whether prescription medication sharing, a common consumer health behavior, leads to adverse outcomes, including inappropriate usage, delayed care and exposure to side effects. Researchers ...
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• Try Chocolate for an Emotional Release

  
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  New research suggests a palatable method to relieve stress involves regular consumption of dark chocolate. As an additional bonus, the chocolate may also improve cardiovascular health and supply benefits associated with antioxidants. In a clinical trial, investigators found that eating about an ounce and a half of ...
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• Brain Imaging Aids Alzheimer’s Options

  
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  Sometimes living longer is not always associated with a better quality of life. Experts estimate 35 million people will be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2010. Sadly, the prevalence of the disease is expected to double every 20 years with approximately 115 million cases by 2050. Thankfully, technology may ...
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• New Way To Biopsy Brain Tumors In Real Time Identified By Barrow Study

  
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  A new miniature, hand-held microscope may allow more precise removal of brain tumors and an easier recognition of tumor locations during surgery. Neurosurgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Josephs Hospital and Medical Center are using the new miniature laser confocal microscope to view brain tumor ...
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• Study Links Evolution Of Single Gene To Human Capacity For Language

  
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  If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not? Scientists suspect that part of the answer to the mystery lies in a gene called FOXP2. When mutated, FOXP2 can disrupt speech and language in humans.
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• Handwriting and Fine Motor Skills: New Insights into Autism

  
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  Handwriting and Fine Motor Skills: New Insights into Autism Over the last couple of years, Ive been privileged to interview several researchers who work at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. Ive written about their work on the brains motor (movement control) regions and functions as they relate to autism. ...
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• Mouse gene suppresses Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles

  
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  Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and colleagues have identified a novel mouse gene (Rps23r1) that reduces the accumulation of two toxic proteins that are major players in Alzheimer’s disease: amyloid beta and tau. The amyloid and tau lowering functions of this gene were demonstrated ...
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• New Evidence That Dark Chocolate Helps Ease Emotional Stress

  
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  The “chocolate cure” for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research: Gut Microbiota, and Stress-Related Metabolism in Free-Living Subjects. It found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels ...
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• 3 Classic Meditations for Building Mindfulness

  
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  “The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” -Thich Nhat Hanh Meditation is a powerful means of transforming all that you see, hear, and feel… but the presence we develop has a strong effect on those who spend time around ...
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• Conquering Fibromyalgia is Possible

  
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  While watching television, numerous advertisements come on concerning fibromyalgia. Just what is fibromyalgia and why all the concern. Fibromyalgia is defined as a syndrome rather than a disease, because it has no specific cause or symptom. Its characteristics include widespread muscle and joint pain and debilitating ...
  3 days ago

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