In fact, Vaneman, a retired professor of Shakespeare and medieval literature, had brain cancer: a glioblastoma or GBM, the most common type of brain tumor.
While it was an interesting and brain-filling type of employment, the job itself was rather thankless.
The first group had a type of brain damage that prevented them from feeling fear.
According to the singer's representative, Crow was diagnosed with meningioma, a common type of brain tumor.
He said narcolepsy was linked to a loss of a particular type of brain cell called a hypocretin neuron.
It is thought that Parkinson's is linked to the death of a certain type of brain cell that produces a chemical called dopamine.
But they do not ask for brain scans of the type used by neuroscientists in Cambridge and Ontario to search for hidden awareness.
She told him that in her entire career she had never seen third-line chemotherapy produce a significant response in his type of brain tumor.
Kennedy underwent surgery at Duke University Medical Center on Monday, two weeks after he was diagnosed with an especially lethal type of brain cancer.
It showed participants in the study who used a cell phone for 10 years or more had doubled the rate of brain glioma, a type of tumor.
According to Andreas Jordan, the firm's chief scientist, this procedure has no side-effects and shows particular promise against glioblastomas, a deadly type of brain cancer, and against prostate cancer.
Certain epidemiologic studies (mainly from a single group in Sweden) indicate an elevated risk of glioma (the most malignant type of brain cancer) in long-term users of cell phones.
The WHO said that the classification was mainly due to a study that showed heavy cellphone use might cause a 40% increased risk of glioma, a type of brain tumor.
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Sparc has long been implicated by researchers in the spread of colon cancer to the liver and may be similarly predictive in melanoma, breast cancer and glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor.
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Hardell has been a vocal promoter of his results as indicating that long-term cell phone use appears to be associated with increased risk of glioma, the most fatal type of brain tumor.
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That said, this problem of causality in the area of neuroscience is endemic to a lot of papers that come across my desk that try to relate a particular brain structure to a type of behavior.
The stem cells were taken from these and, in a laboratory culture, and body chemicals used to "persuade" them to shift, stage by stage, from this state into the type of brain cells that their Parkinsonism mice were lacking.
The more stem cells present, the more virulently the tumor grows:They account for 1 in 4 cells in a glioblastoma tumor, the deadliest type of brain cancer, but only 1 in 500 cells in slower-growing forms of brain cancer, Dirks found.
However, he said that embryonic stem cells remained the most obvious source of cells for such transplants, as foetal tissue - used in some experiments - was scarce, and so-called "adult stem cells" had never been converted into the right type of brain cells, despite 15 years of research.
It is interesting that a type of accelerated brain growth is studied as almost exclusive to males with regressive autism.
Although the TMS currently used for depression doesn't reach all brain regions, the new type may be able to affect the insula.
Malignant glioma is the most common type of adult brain cancer.
"The congresswoman's family wants to ensure she receives the best rehabilitative care possible for her type of serious penetrating brain injury, " said Dr. Michael Lemole.
The researchers knew this because they had introduced a radioactive tracer that selectively binds to the same type of receptor in the brain, the mu-opioid variety, as the endorphins.
Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in ketamine because of studies showing that at much lower doses than required for anesthesia, it appears to be a rapid and powerful antidepressant agent, presumably because it blocks an important type of receptor in the brain, known as the NMDA receptor.
For the first time, a drug appears to have prevented some of the brain damage and disability associated with the most common type of stroke.
Almost 90% of babies born with this type of spina bifida have hydrocephalus, excess brain fluid.
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That is because this type of light mimics daylight, convincing the brain that it is still daytime.
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She found a link between the brain's pleasure chemicals and a craving for this type of food.
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