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Zapping The Brain With Tiny Magnetic Pulses Improves Memory

Who doesn't want more brain power? Credit: James Steidl By Elizabeth Maratos , University of Leicester The practice of physically stimulating the brain in order to alleviate symptoms of illness and injury has been around since the ear ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 9 2014 - 10:30am - 0 attachments

Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell And William E. Moerner Receive 2014 Nobel In Chemistry

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Eric Betzig of Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan W. Hell of the  Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and William E. Moer ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 12:07pm - 0 attachments

Sugar Implicated In Memory Problems

... the brain that controls memory formation. People with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias often suffer damage to the hippocampus. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 4:30pm - 0 attachments

Nobel Prize In Medicine For Work On ‘The Brain’s GPS’

John O'Keefe , left, and Edvard and May-Britt Moser. Credits: David Bishop, UCL and NTNU By Luc Henry , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded with one half to John O ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 6 2014 - 11:26pm - 0 attachments

Brain Injury In Sport Is An Unfolding Tragedy – We're Only Now Starting To Count The Cost

Dave ‘Bear’ Duerson, 22, in action. Credit: PA By Jordan Gaines Lewis , Penn State College of Medicine Ah, football. The great American pastime. The freshly cut grass and crisply-painted yard lines. The sound of helmets clashing in ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 30 2014 - 3:58pm - 0 attachments

Blind Spot: Our Coming Eye Disease Epidemic

Almost 2 million Americans have an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and about 100,000 are blind from the disease. In AMD, cells in the retina, that layer of tissue in the back of the eye, begin to break down. What was once shar ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 25 2014 - 6:21pm - 0 attachments

Drugs For Your Pets

... illnesses as humans such as allergies, cancer and even Alzheimer's disease. Currently pets are often given drugs designed for the ...

Article - Inside Science - Sep 26 2014 - 10:30am - 0 attachments

Think You Have Alzheimer's? You May Be Right

... of of Biostatistics and Associate Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center at the University of Kentucky, and colleagues asked ... death, participants' brains were examined for evidence of Alzheimer's disease. During the study, 56 percent of the participants ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2014 - 8:30am - 0 attachments

Evolution Of Responses To (un)fairness

... increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2014 - 12:48pm - 0 attachments

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reset To Pristine State

... cells to existing lines. Accompanying claims were that Alzheimer's Disease wouldn't be cured and Republicans hated science.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2014 - 2:00pm - 0 attachments