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Unravelling the secrets of ‘Huntingtin’ Protein - towards the treatment of Huntingtins’ Disese

...untingtin' which is responsible for destroying the brain tissue. Researchers have believed the mutation so...F), which is essential for maintaining the type of brain cells that die off in patients with Huntington's. It is this patients' mutated huntingtin protein th...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

Malignant glioma is an aggressive kind of brain tumour that does respond to treatment. Reseachers ...lds promise as a treatment for this deadly form of brain cancer. Dr.Peter A Forsyth, of the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and colleag...

Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!

...ails that a raise in the blood sugar decreases the brain function. More than 100 adults with type 1 diabet...t time, we can demonstrate that performance of the brain is impaired in the short term when a patient has too much blood sugar. Once you get above a blood gl...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

...se analgesics suppress the intrinsic effect of the brain to produce pain-killing chemicals on its own. "The...e of these medications you take, the less your own brain makes," Dr. Merle L. Diamond, associate director of the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, Illinois...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

... chances of recovery. This new method is based on brain scanning using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a...roke. The size of the stroke abnormalities in the brain as a result of blood clot can be measured using the MRI. Simple tests called the stroke assesment t...

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...ffects which include inducing the chemicals in the brain called endorphins that has analgesic effects....

Alcohol shrinks brain

"Heavy alcohol consumption might exaggerate brain shrinkage in social drinkers. Chronic heavy alcoho... mentally, now turns out to potentially shrink the brain according to the studies. Heavy alcohol consumption leads to the shrinkage of the frontal lobe, whi...

New scalpel probes into cancer

...t and was able to distinguish between normal human brain cells and their malignant form. At present the on...ble to tell the surgeon when to stop cutting. The brain is a particularly critical place to know when enough tissue has been removed, said project leader P...

The big brain in suicides

...e have heavier brains than most people. The human brain normally weighs about 1400g in men and 1300g in w... weight increase in sucide victims. A comparative brain study was made between people who died a natural death with those of people who commited sucide. Res...

Big and Bright

... light on the connection between foetal growth and brain development....

Stuttering and brain anatomy

... had anatomical irregularities in the areas of the brain that control language and speech. The study resu...hat anatomic abnormalities within the areas of the brain that control speech and language puts an individual at risk for the development of stuttering.// U...

Alzheimer cure

Restoring a signalling molecule to the brain reverses Alzheimer-like damage in mice. In both Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome, a group of brain cells called the basal forebrain cholinergic neurons shrivels and dies. The brain chemical, acetylch...

Headache decreases appetite

...chool now reveal, in a study,// the changes in the brain when pain takes away your appetite. From a group o...o rats and discovered that they activated not just brain cells that transmit pain signals, but also those involved in appetite suppression. Headache stimuli ...

Breast milk is essential

...ically active peptides in human milk may influence brain growth as well as the high levels of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids....

Action of nerve cells

For proper functioning of the brain in humans and animals, the nerve cells must commun...id the research was aimed at understanding how the brain works, how information is stored and transmitted....

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

...sever the nerve, thus stopping the signal from the brain to the hands. Since the nerves to the feet take a different route, the feet often continue to sweat after surgery.The side effects of such surgery are compensatory sweating on the abdomen, back or thighs, but this sweating is often not nearly as sev...

Herbs for Rememberance

...al cause of dementia is reduced circulation in the brain due to thickened arteries. As a result, some brain cells die, taking some of the memory and concentration with them.The neurotransmitter chemicals dopa...

Role of zinc in development

...making new body proteins including cell growth and brain development in the unborn baby. It comes from a variety of foods but is most easily absorbed from foods of animal origin such as meat, seafood and poultry. Since iron can interfere with zinc absorption, it would make sense in communities where zinc...

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

...as a negative impact on blood flow to parts of the brain and that the effect can persist for weeks. ECSTAS... study was done by comparing the blood flow in the brain using magnetic resonance imaging of their brains of dug users and then comparing them with brain sc...

Less drinking less stroke

...y patients appeared to protect against age-related brain injuries such as silent stroke and white matter di...cohol, at any level, was also associated with some brain atrophy.// The research team studied 2,306 patients over the age of 65 who were enrolled in the Ca...

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