Ventral in Medical News

Latin American Market for Hernia Repair Devices Achieving Double-Digit Growth

... Interest in Premium-Priced Nonadhesive ventral Hernia Meshes Climbs in Latin America, According ... 2009 report, growing demand for premium-priced ventral hernia repair meshes will generate notable ... to the increasing number of laparoscopic ventral hernia repairs performed in Latin America, ...

ETHICON Launches the Latest Innovation in Hernia Repair Platform; PROCEED(TM) Ventral Patch (PVP(TM) Device)

... today announced the launch of the PROCEED ventral Patch (PVP Device), the latest addition to its ... indicated for use in umbilical, epigastric, small ventral and trocar site hernias. Hernias are ... coughing, or pregnancy. The PROCEED ventral Patch is a sterile, self-expanding, partially ...

Ventral Hernia Repair Market to Grow to Over $800 Million in 2013

... Soft Tissue Repair 2009 report, the US market for ventral hernia repair is valued at almost $500 million ... and obese populations, will help drive the ventral hernia repair market over the next five years. ... site of a previous surgical incision are called ventral hernias, and are the second most common type ...

Sense of Adventure Rests in Primitive Brain Region

... from a primitive area of the brain called the ventral striatum, British researchers say. Scientists ... track brain activity in volunteers and found the ventral striatum was activated when participants chose ... enriched and more nutritious," she said. The ventral stratium is one of the key areas involved in the ...

Money motivates -- especially when your colleague gets less

... Dr. Bernd Weber. "One area in particular, the ventral striatum, is the region where part of what we ... subject got his estimate wrong, activity in his ventral striatum would subside. For us, however, the ... two, on the other hand, the blood flow into the ventral striatum actually decreased – even though he had ...

'Wiring' in the brain influences personality

... to different places every year? Then maybe your neural connection between ventral striatum and hippocampus is particularly well developed. Both of them are ... noticed a link. 'The stronger the connection between frontal lobe and ventral striatum, the more distinctive the desire for recognition by that person's ...

Brain reacts to fairness as it does to money and chocolate

... Psychological Science. The activated brain regions include the ventral striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Humans share the ventral striatum with rats, mice and monkeys, Tabibnia said. "Fairness is ...

Brain patterns of former anorexics reveal clues to disorder's lasting impact

... $2, while incorrect guessers forfeited $1. Brain activity in the anterior ventral striatum and caudate regions were monitored during game play with fMRI brain imaging. The anterior ventral striatum is associated with instant emotional responses, while the caudate ...

Is somatic hypersensitivity a predictor of irritable bowel syndrome?

... a Medoc Thermal Sensory Analyzer with a 3 cm 3 cm surface area. Heat pain threshold (HPTh) and heat pain tolerance (HPTo) were assessed on the left ventral forearm and left calf using an ascending method of limits. The Functional Bowel Disease Severity Index (FBDSI) was also obtained for all subjects. ...

World's First Deep Brain Stimulation Device Approved for Treatment of Psychiatric Condition in Europe

... the anatomical target in the brain is the anterior limb of the internal capsule (AIC), and more specifically, a region sometimes referred to as the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS), which is a central node in the neural circuits believed to regulate mood and anxiety. About OCD ...

Brain Can 'See' Objects Through Touch

... found. "Our data indicate, for the first time, that at least some regions in the LO can be activated normally from touch, even when input from ventral LO is lesioned and visual recognition is prevented," the researchers wrote. "This is consistent with estimates of effective connectivity from ...

Being a 'People Person' May Be All in Your Head

... of grey matter (brain-cell containing tissue) in the orbitofrontal cortex (the outer strip of the brain just above the eyes) and in the ventral striatum (located in the center of the brain). Previous research has shown that both areas play an important role in processing simple rewards ...

Jet Lag Upsets Brain's Internal Clocks

... with each other, but they can be thrown out of synch by jet lag or shift work. "When we impose a 22-hour light-dark cycle on animals, the ventral center can catch up, but the dorsal doesn't adapt and defaults to its own inner cycle," Horacio de la Iglesia, an associate professor of biology, ...

'Good Feelings' From Alcohol Only Come With Fewer Drinks

... she explained. "Our findings suggest that a more targeted approach may be developed by blocking the activity of beta-endorphin in the [brain's] ventral tegmental area." But researchers say additional research is needed to better understand the relationship between alcohol and endorphins and to ...

'Near-Wins' Boost Desire to Keep Gambling

... University of Cambridge, said in a journal news release. The researchers found that near-wins were associated with significant activation of the ventral striatum and anterior insula, areas that were also activated by wins. Clark and colleagues also identified a significant association between insula ...

When 'Just Say No' Isn't Enough: Try Science

... twenties, followed by 12-17 year olds. Take risks they usually would not take. Connections between regions of the prefrontal cortex and the ventral striatum, an important part of the brain's reward system, are important in regulating impulsive behavior and are still maturing during adolescence. ...

When 'just say no' isn't enough: Try science

... twenties, followed by 12-17 year olds. Take risks they usually would not take. Connections between regions of the prefrontal cortex and the ventral striatum, an important part of the brain's reward system, are important in regulating impulsive behavior and are still maturing during adolescence. ...

Brain Scans Show Bullies Enjoy Others' Pain

... study, published in the current Biological Psychology . "Aggressive adolescents showed a specific and very strong activation of the amygdala and ventral striatum (an area that responds to feeling rewarded) when watching pain inflicted on others, which suggested that they enjoyed watching pain," ...

Bullies may enjoy seeing others in pain

... participants without conduct disorder," Decety said. "Aggressive adolescents showed a specific and very strong activation of the amygdala and ventral striatum (an area that responds to feeling rewarded) when watching pain inflicted on others, which suggested that they enjoyed watching pain," he ...

Cocaine addiction linked to voluntary drug use and cellular memory, UCSF study shows

... cocaine showed an increase in communication to dopamine neurons, which form the brain's key natural reward and motivational circuit, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA). In rats that self-administered cocaine, the increase in neuronal communication called long-term synaptic potentiation ...

New Treatment Shows Promise for Excessive Drinking

... alcoholism. In this study, rats were conditioned for two months to seek alcohol. The researchers then injected GDNF into a brain region called the ventral Tegmental Area (VTA), which is believed to be strongly involved in drug-seeking behavior. The rats' desire to drink alcohol decreased significantly ...

First look: Princeton researchers peek into deepest recesses of human brain

... brain chemicals like dopamine were relegated to watching its effects in other more accessible parts of the brain, like the prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum. However, this was downstream of its source, and therefore possibly much less accurate, D'Ardenne said. "We wanted to try because the ...

Twins study shows genetic basis for face and place recognition

... houses, chairs, made-up words and abstract control images. Faces, houses, and words are known to elicit distinct patterns of activity in the brain's ventral visual cortex, on the bottom of the brain, behind and around the ears. The scientists used photos of houses to stimulate what's called the ...

Vulnerability to Stress Linked to Brain Molecule

... the situation, while others avoided contact and showed submissive behavior. The researchers then made detailed studies of two brain regions -- the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), which are part of the brain's reward area that promotes acts that aid in survival. They found ...

One shot of gene therapy spreads through brain in animal study

... to making multiple injections into a childs brain. In the current study, Wolfe targeted a particular region of the mouse brain called the ventral tegmental area (VTA), which has numerous connections with the rest of the brain. He used a neutralized virus called adeno-associated virus (AAV) as a ...

Scientists get first look at nanotubes inside living animals

... of nanotubes was found in the dorsal vessel, which is analogous to a main blood vessel in a mammal. Lesser concentrations were found in the brain, ventral nerve cord, salivary glands, trachea and fat. Based on their assays, the team estimates that only about one in 100 million nanotubes passed through ...

Predictors Of Wound Infection In Ventral Hernia Repair

... 100,000 repairs// performed annually. Although ventral hernia repair (VHR) is a common operation, ... VHR in a retrospective multicenter study of ventral hernia outcomes. The study examines patient- and ... verify the safety and efficacy of mesh use for ventral hernia repair. ...

Penis Loses Its Most Sensitive Parts During Circumcision Process

... location on the circumcised penis was the circumcision scar on the ventral surface. It was incredible that five locations on the uncircumcised penis ... regularly removed at circumcision had lower pressure thresholds than the ventral scar of the circumcised penis. This study suggests that the midway ...

Smoking Alters the Human Brain Like Those in Animals Using Illicit Drugs

... studied samples of human brain tissue from the nucleus accumbens and the ventral midbrain, brain regions that play a part in controlling addiction-related ... more interesting, levels remained high, as compared to nonsmokers, in the ventral midbrains of former smokers. This suggests that the changes persist long ...

Understanding the Mechanism Underlying Embryo Development

... grouped into different segments or compartments that never mix with one another, and which enable the symmetrical construction of the dorsal and ventral parts starting from a given limit or border. This process of subdivision into compartments also takes place during the formation of the ...

The Science of Happiness

... happiness by default, are facets of evolution ingrained into our brains. Research on animals have revealed that another part of the brain, the right ventral prefrontal cortex was activated simultaneously to cope with the vagaries of pain, implicating that the centers of sadness and the mechanism to ...

Is the urge to binge as strong a craving as sex and recreational drugs to addicts?

... found out that the hormone ghrelin which is produced in the stomach to stimulate eating actually acts on a part of the brain, called the ventral tegmental area (VTA), that has proven to be the seat of all the pleasurable stimulations like drugs and sexual activity. Dr Howarth opines that this ...

Gender Difference In Pain Experience Explained By Brain Diversity

... referred to as the periaqueductal gray (PAG). This area of the brain communicates pain information to another region referred to as the rostral ventral medulla (RVM). This PAG-RVM circuit plays a crucial role in the pain sensation. This region of the brain is infact influenced by both narcotics ...

Studies Show Brain becomes Less Specialized With Age

... at the back of the brain. The researchers concluded that their findings were the first to demonstrate decreased neural specialization in the ventral visual cortex in older adults, along with increased activations in the prefrontal cortex. This they said underscores the importance of taking into ...

Mood Stabilizing drugs for Bipolar disorder

... the mechanism of these drugs on controlling the symptoms of this manic depressive illness. MRI scans are helpful in diagnosing the brain action and ventral prefrontal cortex which is responsible for controlling the mood and emotions in a person. Bipolar disorder or Manic-depressive illness is due ...