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Healthy adults with small inferior frontal cortex more likely to suffer from anxiety, study finds

Healthy college students who have a relatively small inferior frontal cortex - a brain region behind the temples that helps regulate thoughts and emotions - are more likely than others to suffer from anxiety, a new study finds.

13 Apr 2017

Renishaw applauds University Hospital of Wales on first robotic-assisted neurosurgery for epilepsy

Renishaw is pleased to congratulate the University Hospital of Wales on a successful first robotic assistedstereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) neurosurgery procedure.

13 Apr 2017

Obesity and being underweight linked to increased risk for migraine

Both obesity and being underweight are associated with an increased risk for migraine, according to a meta-analysis published in the April 12, 2017, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

12 Apr 2017

TSRI study could lead to personalized treatments for alcohol dependence

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute could help researchers develop personalized treatments for alcoholism and alcohol use disorder.

12 Apr 2017

KU researcher reveals possible therapeutic intervention for 'chemobrain' in cancer patients

Findings offered by a University of Kansas researcher, identified as one of 20 'Must See Presenters' at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in early April, suggest a possible therapeutic intervention for "chemobrain," the cognitive impairment plaguing up to a third of cancer patients following chemotherapy.

12 Apr 2017

New research finds optimum time to study for college students

A new cognitive research study used two new approaches to determine ranges of start times that optimize functioning for undergraduate students.

12 Apr 2017

Study shows new prospects for understanding mechanisms underlying vision

New approaches to the study of vision both from the neurobiological perspective and with a view to the technological development of artificial vision systems: that is the key result of the research project conducted by SISSA in Trieste in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Rovereto and published in the science journal eLife.

12 Apr 2017

Prevention, not cure, may be key to stopping Alzheimer’s disease

It has been 111 years since Auguste D. became the first person described with what is now called Alzheimer's disease.

12 Apr 2017

Duke researchers link specific differences in brain structure to multiple forms of mental disorder

A Duke University study is the first to link specific differences in brain structure to what is common across many types of mental illness.

11 Apr 2017

Western-led research uncovers underlying molecular mechanism that controls acoustic habituation

Most people will startle when they hear an unexpected loud sound. The second time they hear the noise, they'll startle significantly less; by the third time, they'll barely startle at all.

11 Apr 2017

Video therapy for parents may help children at risk of developing autism

The earliest autism intervention study in the world that uses video to provide feedback to parents of babies at family risk of autism, has indicated a reduction in the severity of emerging signs of autism.

From The University of Manchester 11 Apr 2017

Salk Institute receives additional $3 million Glenn Foundation gift to continue aging research

The Salk Institute has received a $3 million gift from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research for the second time in 4 years, enabling the Institute to continue investigating the biology of normal human aging and age-related diseases.

10 Apr 2017

Study uncovers novel role for cortical interneurons in coding of spatial information

Researchers from King's College London have discovered a specific class of inhibitory neurons in the cerebral cortex which plays a key role in how the brain encodes spatial information. The findings are published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

10 Apr 2017

Intermountain Healthcare joins NPA’s QOD to improve quality of care

Intermountain Healthcare recently signed on as NeuroPoint Alliance's first health system. Intermountain is participating in all of the current Quality Outcomes Databases: Lumbar, Deformity, Cervical and Neurovascular and are awaiting the fifth QOD registry, Tumor, which NPA plans to have on line in 2018.

7 Apr 2017

Neurons derived from precursor cells may regulate innate reproductive and aggressive behaviors

Neurons derived from two different types of precursor cells that later develop into neurons in the medial amygdala - one of the interconnected structures in the brain involved in emotion, motivation and memory - help to program innate reproductive and aggressive behaviors into the brain, research led by Children's National Health System indicates.

7 Apr 2017

Study shows how prefrontal cortex may teach hippocampus to differentiate goal-related memories

Neurons in the prefrontal cortex "teach" neurons in the hippocampus to "learn" rules that distinguish memory-based predictions in otherwise identical situations, suggesting that learning in the present helps guide learning in the future, according to research conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published April 5 in the journal Neuron.

7 Apr 2017

Salk scientists discover chemical cocktail that enables stem cells to generate tissues

When scientists talk about laboratory stem cells being totipotent or pluripotent, they mean that the cells have the potential, like an embryo, to develop into any type of tissue in the body.

6 Apr 2017

Metabolic syndrome is the new 'silent killer', warn researchers

For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University make the case that metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of three of more risk factors that include abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, abnormal lipids, and insulin resistance, a precursor of type 2 diabetes -- is the new "silent killer," analogous to hypertension in the 1970s.

6 Apr 2017

Study shows the aging brain has trouble generating brain waves required for deep sleep

Older people tend to experience less sleep, due to taking frequent trips to the bathroom, and losing the ability to create deep restorative sleep compared with young adults.

6 Apr 2017

Regular exercise, not body fat, may help predict person's recovery from stroke

A new study suggests it's the amount of regular exercise people get, not the amount of body fat they have, that may predict just how well they recover from a stroke.

6 Apr 2017

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Healthy adults with small inferior frontal cortex more likely to suffer from anxiety, study finds

Renishaw applauds University Hospital of Wales on first robotic-assisted neurosurgery for epilepsy

Obesity and being underweight linked to increased risk for migraine

TSRI study could lead to personalized treatments for alcohol dependence

KU researcher reveals possible therapeutic intervention for 'chemobrain' in cancer patients

New research finds optimum time to study for college students

Study shows new prospects for understanding mechanisms underlying vision

Prevention, not cure, may be key to stopping Alzheimer’s disease

Duke researchers link specific differences in brain structure to multiple forms of mental disorder

Western-led research uncovers underlying molecular mechanism that controls acoustic habituation

Video therapy for parents may help children at risk of developing autism

Salk Institute receives additional $3 million Glenn Foundation gift to continue aging research

Study uncovers novel role for cortical interneurons in coding of spatial information

Intermountain Healthcare joins NPA’s QOD to improve quality of care

Neurons derived from precursor cells may regulate innate reproductive and aggressive behaviors

Study shows how prefrontal cortex may teach hippocampus to differentiate goal-related memories

Salk scientists discover chemical cocktail that enables stem cells to generate tissues

Metabolic syndrome is the new 'silent killer', warn researchers

Study shows the aging brain has trouble generating brain waves required for deep sleep

Regular exercise, not body fat, may help predict person's recovery from stroke

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