Health & Medicine - Aug 30, 2010 11:11 - 1 Comment

Sodium MRI gives arthritis an early look

NYU (US)—An innovative way to look at the development of osteoarthritis in the knee joint relies on the examination of sodium ions in cartilage. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jun 22, 2010 15:00 - 2 Comments

Signs of schizophrenia appear in infancy

UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US)—Researchers have provided the first evidence that brain abnormalities associated with the risk of schizophrenia can be detected in babies only a few weeks old. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jun 11, 2010 9:33 - 1 Comment

New surgical route to brain: The eyes have it

JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—Surgeons can now safely and effectively operate inside the human brain through a small incision in the natural creases of an eyelid. (more…)

Health & Medicine - May 5, 2010 6:57 - 0 Comments

Vitamin D may play role in MS severity

U. BUFFALO (US)—New research finds that low vitamin D levels may be associated with more advanced physical disability and cognitive impairment in persons with multiple sclerosis. (more…)

Science & Technology - May 3, 2010 10:19 - 2 Comments

Multiple brain regions wired for language

U. ROCHESTER (US)—A new study finds there is no single advanced area of the human brain that makes it suited to parse language. Instead, humans rely on several regions, each designed to accomplish different primitive tasks, in order to make sense of a sentence. (more…)

Science & Technology - Apr 28, 2010 13:00 - 2 Comments

Magnetism puts nanoparticles on the move

U. ILLINOIS (US)—Scientists have developed an imaging technology that uses magnetism to noninvasively move nanoparticles inside the body in order to specifically target tumor cells and other tissue. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Apr 27, 2010 11:46 - 1 Comment

Structural differences in dyslexic brain

VANDERBILT (US)—Children with dyslexia often struggle with reading, writing, and spelling. A new study suggests the difficulties may be linked to structural differences in the part of their brain known to play a role in oral language. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Apr 5, 2010 12:21 - 4 Comments

Simple test an early predictor of Alzheimer’s

PENN STATE (US)—An inexpensive and easy test has been developed to test the brain’s capacity for information—a reliable predictor of Alzheimer’s disease. (more…)

Society & Culture - Mar 30, 2010 11:19 - 1 Comment

Who’s in the coffin: Gladiator or bishop?

U. MICHIGAN (US)—In the ruins of a city that was once Rome’s neighbor, archaeologists last summer found a 1,000-pound lead coffin. Who or what is inside is still a mystery, says Nicola Terrenato, who leads the project—the largest American dig in Italy in the past 50 years. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Mar 8, 2010 12:05 - 12 Comments

Glaucoma’s blindness starts in the brain

VANDERBILT (US)—The first sign of injury in glaucoma occurs in the brain, not the eye as previously thought. A new study shows glaucoma is very much like other central nervous system diseases. (more…)

Science & Technology - Feb 10, 2010 12:43 - 1 Comment

Hoop fans hang on to happy memories

DUKE (US)—In a novel study that used historical tape of a thrilling overtime basketball game between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, brain researchers have found that fans remember the good things their team did much better than the bad. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Feb 9, 2010 11:28 - 0 Comments

More aggressive MS seen in blacks

U. BUFFALO (US)—Compared to Caucasians, fewer African Americans develop multiple sclerosis, but researchers say their disease progresses more rapidly and therapies are less effective. (more…)

Best of 2010, Science & Technology - Jan 11, 2010 17:27 - 31 Comments

I’m so fantastic (if I ignore my frontal lobes)

U. TEXAS-AUSTIN—The less you use your brain’s frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses, new research shows. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Dec 24, 2009 11:42 - 3 Comments

Brain benefit for seniors who volunteer

JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—Older adults who tutored children or took part in some other form of volunteer service were able to delay or even reverse declining brain function, a new study finds. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Nov 17, 2009 16:40 - 1 Comment

MS aggressive in kids, yet slow to disable

U. BUFFALO (US)—MRI brain scans show that multiple sclerosis is more aggressive and causes more brain lesions in patients diagnosed in childhood. However, researchers report that disabilities develop at a slower pace compared to those diagnosed with MS as adults. (more…)

Society & Culture - Oct 8, 2009 13:19 - 2 Comments

Brains of risk-taking teens mature faster

EMORY (US)—A new study using brain imaging to study teen behavior indicates that adolescents who engage in dangerous activities have frontal white matter tracts that are more adult in form than their more conservative peers. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Sep 24, 2009 13:58 - 1 Comment

Tooling MRIs to pinpoint prostate cancer

RUTGERS (US)—Computerized tools may soon improve the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to help doctors identify prostate cancer. The technique potentially could be adapted for imaging breast cancer and other forms of cancer. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Aug 19, 2009 12:22 - 0 Comments

Brain ‘sees’ even when eyes can’t

Blue shows regions of the brain that were more activated when both sighted and blind participants thought about nonliving things rather than animals. (Courtesy: University of Rochester)

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