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Scientists convert specific brain cells to neurons

2012-10-05T13:33:14Z

Berlin: Researchers have discovered a way to generate new human neurons from another type of adult cell found in our brains, a find which could aid treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. In a study published in ...
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Right brain, left brain, saga of the Milton Theater

2012-10-05T13:33:14Z

What it takes for such a theater to survive, and to succeed, is a responsible right brain and left brain combination. More specifically, the business and creative sides must come together. Considering basic demographics, and other factors, it would ...
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Not getting sleepy? Brain scans may reveal why some can't be hypnotized

2012-10-05T09:40:23Z

Researchers found that in people who couldn't be hypnotized, brain cell networks associated with executive control on the one hand, and attention on the other showed less activity and less tendency to interconnect. The study, published in the October ...
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From Brain Drain to Medical Tourism

2012-10-05T09:40:23Z

President Goodluck Jonathan is disappointed in himself. He may not say so publically, but the shambolic health sector he inherited is just as comatose as it was when he was elected. He had hoped to stop the brain drain in the health sector. He also ...
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Aspirin May Slow Brain Decline In Elderly Women With Heart Risk

2012-10-05T09:40:23Z

Low dose aspirin may ward off cognitive decline in elderly women with a high risk of cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease and stroke, conclude researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden who write about their five-year study in a ...
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Brain dead girl gives new lease of life

2012-10-05T09:40:23Z

When 17-year-old Payal (name changed because her parents preferred not to reveal it) was declared brain dead on September 2, a day short of her 18th birthday, at a private hospital in the Capital, her parents made what they claim was the most difficult ...
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NT Colander Brain vs AS Hourglass Brain analogy... - General ...

2012-10-05T06:15:14Z

NTs have stronger long range connections between major brain areas and hence are able to process multiple pieces of information simultaneously a lot faster than Aspies and. Aspies have weaker long range connections which results in us ...
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What marijuana does to your brain

2012-10-05T06:15:14Z

What marijuana does to your brain. Thursday, October 04, 2012. Youtube science channel AsapSCIENCE shows you what you look like, on the inside, when smoking cannabis. via. tag-icon asapscience, drugs, informative, marijuana, video ...
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Your Brain on Marijuana - Neatorama

2012-10-05T06:15:14Z

http://youtu.be/oeF6rFN9org] (YouTube link)How does marijuana affect your brain? Here's the totally non-political neurochemistry explanation from AsapSCIENCE. Written by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown. -via The Daily What Geek...
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Your Brain on Marijuana by AsapScience

2012-10-05T06:15:14Z

The effects of Marijuana on your brain, and how it defines your experience. Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE created this short educational video, titled Your Brain on Marijuana, that tells us scientifically how smoking ...
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Tablets fill the role of a portable brain | TechRepublic

2012-10-05T06:15:14Z

If your company has a computing problem that can be fixed with a cheap, portable, connected brain, a tablet could be the perfect solution.
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Brain surgery goes bad, now no doctor can help woman

2012-10-05T05:45:05Z

Carissa had been living a normal healthy life until two weeks ago, when something started to go wrong with the shunt. When she went to Banner Good Samaritan, she was devastated to learn no one could help her. “I just really want someone to fix it,” she ...
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Exercise After Stroke Could Help Improve Memory: Study

2012-10-05T05:45:05Z

Here's even more evidence that physical fitness can help your brain: Canadian researchers have found that stroke survivors experience better memory, thinking and language skills with six months of exercise. The study, presented at a meeting of the ...
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Girl brain dead, organs retrieved five days later

2012-10-05T01:55:36Z

NEW DELHI: Thousands of patients needing organ transplant die every day in India due to lack of donors. But when it comes to donating the organs, doctors say, legal hassles are many. In a case exposing the bureaucratic procedures leading to delay in ...
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"Bird Brain" Loses Insult Power Due to Discovery of Brain Structures ...

2012-10-05T00:25:17Z

Throwing the insult "bird brain" at someone you think in stupid could start to backfire; birds have smart centers in their brains like mammals.
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GMO HSV-1 vs Brain Cancer – erv

2012-10-05T00:25:17Z

[takes a photo] Abe: [chasing him] Youve stolen my soul! Average Joes and Janes might, might know a little bit about the Most Famous GMO viruses: Vaccines.
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How I Reprogrammed My Brain

2012-10-04T22:01:27Z

Strangely, until I learned how a computer program works, I'd never thought to learn about my brain or about how our mental activity operates so seamlessly, without a glitch, and under subconscious control. I'd never thought to try to understand the ...
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Researchers Map Vision in Brain

2012-10-04T22:01:27Z

For the study, the investigators used functional MRI scans to measure the brain activity of 25 people with normal vision and then identified a precise statistical relationship between the structure of the folds of the brain and the representation of ...
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Ketamine Relieves Depression By Restoring Brain Connections

2012-10-04T22:01:27Z

Researchers from Yale and the National Institute of Mental Health say ketamine seems to cause a burst of new connections to form between nerve cells in parts of the brain involved in emotion and mood. The discovery, described in Science, should speed ...
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Rhythm Central: Mickey Hart's Real-Time Brain Activity

2012-10-04T18:08:34Z

Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead percussionist, and neurologist Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D., professor at the University of California San Francisco made history by becoming the first to sonify and visualize brain activity in real time in front of a live ...
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