Although they're known as brain tumors, they actually don't grow in the brain.
The "Don't leave your brain at home on a night out" campaign was launched to coincide with the new university year.
Although the TMS currently used for depression doesn't reach all brain regions, the new type may be able to affect the insula.
Solid evidence that the vaccine worked might have been on the way if a handful of patients hadn't experienced the brain swelling after receiving only two doses.
The imaging agent can't be used to diagnose someone with Alzheimer's disease if the individual doesn't experience memory impairment because the presence of amyloid in the brain doesn't alone suggest that someone has Alzheimer's.
But medically speaking, they don't have a picture of her brain from before and after, so they can't say.
"You don't have to restore brain cells to restore sleep, " said Dr Walker who described their aim as "jump-starting" the system.
The researchers noted, however, that "the direction of causation is unclear, " meaning they couldn't tell if a healthier brain was a result of physical activity, or if people showing signs of cognitive decline weren't able to exercise.
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O'Connor told reporters Thursday that for a while, she didn't know she had a brain tumor.
If your body and brain don't register something as a terrible threat, it doesn't cause stress-related problems later.
The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful.
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Most of the body's organs can keep running off fat if caloric intake is restricted, but the brain can't.
Japan didn't legalize organ transplants from brain-dead donors until 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, a non-governmental group.
And he says that his brain doesn't seem to automatically register the color of things the way other people do.
That worked fine for our ancestors, Peeke said, but the brain can't tell the difference between survival stress and chronic, daily stress.
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Therein lies Soon-Shiong's next scientific adventure: stopping cancer from spreading from, say, the breast, where it won't kill, to the brain, where it will.
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Understanding mild cognitive impairment is important in coming up with better treatments for dementia in general, because the brain hasn't deteriorated as much as in Alzheimer's, so it may not be too late to intervene, experts say.
This follows the same logic as beta blocker use: Alcohol blocks stress pathways in the brain (which is why it relaxes people), so people who were drunk were in a condition in which the terrible event couldn't register fully in the brain in a way that would lead to PTSD.
Unlike the people answering questionnaires or participating in focus groups, brain waves don't lie.
The problem: Researchers don't have the slightest idea which brain circuits cause depression.
But the vagus nerve doesn't target all areas of the brain, so some severe disorders, such as advanced Parkinson's, may require Medtronic's more invasive deep-brain stimulation method.
Several years ago he read a paper in a scientific journal by a Japanese scientist who had discovered D-serine in key areas of the brain but didn't know why it was there.
Several years ago he read in a scientific journal a paper by a Japanese scientist who had discovered D-serine in key areas of the brain but didn't know why it was there.
Jackson started this lab in 1998 to look at methods of brain control that didn't involve surgery.
"Just looking at the brain, you wouldn't know whether the person was paralyzed or not, " he says.
He's kept in touch with Irmak, who suffered a brain edema and doesn't remember much of the rescue.
There's also concerns that the test was too binary and didn't reflect the complexity of the whole brain.
The fire of competitiveness doesn't dwindle after age 25 along with brain mass and steroid levels, it appears.
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Ms. Giffords's immediate responsiveness to commands, such as squeezing a doctor's hand, suggests that she wasn't in a coma and that her brain stem and the brain's core structures had relatively little damage.
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