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A boon to epileptics

Stimulating the brain with a dose of low-frequency magnetism reduces the...ffected are the temporal lobes, at the side of the brain and the frontal lobe. There are two types of fit. One, the partial seizure, is associated with a cha...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

...examined cells from the hippocampus, a part of the brain that is thought to control memory.They subjected the cells to the same level of caffeine found in several cups of coffee, and starved them of oxygen for three to four minutes. They found that the cells all fired at the same time - a phenomenon seen d...

New treatment for depression

...found to have a positive effect on the part of the brain that regulates mood prompting these latest trials. Doctors at the universities of South Carolina and Texas Southwestern Medical Center enrolled 75 patients with bipolar and unipolar depression into the study. All of the participants had severe depr...

Coffee enhances memory

... the next step is to repeat these experiments with brain scanning, to find out what effect caffeine really has on brain function and blood flow....

Low cholestrol,low behaviour

...ked to the transmission of serotonin, an important brain chemical responsible for the control of mood and emotion. "Cholesterol is an extremely important component of the brain, especially of the nerve cell membranes," he said. "It makes sense that if you have got a high or low level of cholestrol that mig...

Protein and fat improve memory

...l the unique connections between each nutrient and brain region involved in memory, according to researchers....

Serotonin increases stroke risk

...bination. They may narrow the blood vessels in the brain to such an extent that a stroke is precipitated. The experts warn that doctors should consider the possibility of these drugs being the culprit whenever a patient reports a sudden, severe headache. On no account should such patients be prescribed ...

Dyslexia due to cerebellum abnormality

...ed to reduced activity in the cerebellum // of the brain that controls movement, co-ordination and balance,...s led by Professor Roderick Nicolson, compared the brain activity of eight normal and eight dyslexic adults using a scanning technique called positron emissi...

Control of inflammation

...ng compound, ATP, and elevated levels of it in the brain appear to cause sleep. Despite its numerous roles adenosine has received little attention from immunologists, says Sitkovsky. This much is known: when tissue damage mounts due to prolonged inflammation oxygen levels in the damaged area fall. This lea...

Alzheimer's followed by head injury

...se is a progressive, degenerative and irreversible brain disorder that causes intellectual impairment, disorientation and eventually death.It is estimated that between 2 and 4% of people over 65 years of age and up to 20% of those over 85 years of age suffer from the disease. The doctors analysed the me...

The way you talk matters a lot

...ficulty in speaking. An angiogram of the patient's brain showed he had ruptured the carotid artery, a vital blood vessel supplying the brain, eyes and other parts of the head. Dr Mathieu Zuber, a neurologist at Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris, who reported the case, said long styl oid processes( a slender, ...

Why cluster headaches?

...found an increase of grey matter in an area of the brain known as the hypothalamus on the side where the he... Goadsby said: "We also found that the area of the brain where these structural abnormalities were seen, the hypothalamus, is the same area of the brain wher...

Nervous disorder being treated

...acts to produce antibodies that reduce levels of a brain chemical that plays a crucial role in controlling ...scles.When this chemical is in short supply in the brain and spinal cord, the muscles are more likely to be over-stimulated and go into fits or spasm. The ...

Sex exploitation connected to Schizophrenia

...ght that childhood trauma can cause changes to the brain that affect its ability to handle stress. According to him some people are more likely to suffer from schizophrenia because of their genes....

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...cohol could stimulate the release acetylcholine, a brain chemical believed to facilitate learning and memory....

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

A poorly understood type of childhood brain cancer has a unique molecule signature that may po...ic Hedgehog (SHH), a signaling molecule crucial to brain development, is linked to one type of medulloblastoma. "As compared to chemotherapy, which is non-sp...

Take care of constipation

... more likely to get diagnosed with the progressive brain disease Parkinson's some have suggested that the disease may have// some effect on the function of the gut long before it manifests itself elsewhere. Dr Robert Abbott, who led the research, said: "It could help us more effectively identify people wi...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...500 babies suffer from asphyxia, which can lead to brain injury, multiple disabilities or even death in severe cases. Around 25 per cent of babies who suffer from a moderate lack of oxygen at birth will develop cerebral palsy.// There are currently no effective treatments to reduce the risk of asphyxia at ...

Women's strong sense of smell

...also shown smells activate a greater region in the brain in women than men." "A new study showed that although sex differences in olfactory superiority are not found in middle age and beyond (50-87 years), personality and semantic memory were found to be better predictors of odour identification, even whe...

Sensible drinking staves off strokes

...eries - which account for 8 out of 10 cases of the brain attack.// Alcohol thins the blood, so can prevents the formation of clots. It may also affect the way cholesterol is carried in the bloodstream, reducing the risk of the build-up of fatty deposits in the blood vessel walls. But larger amounts, espe...

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