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Nose plug-switch that stops smelling

... the brain’s ‘nose plug’ that is the switch in the brain that lets us stop smelling something, even though ... to detect smells and send that information to the brain as an electrical signal.The ‘nose’ is really a channel in the neurons’ membrane that opens when an o...

Leukemia pill shows promise against stomach cancer

... cancer, small-cell lung cancer and a rare type of brain cancer....

Alcohol decreases risk of dementia

... may also have a directly beneficial effect on the brain - increasing levels of acetylcholine, a chemical i...h alcohol, of course, has a very harmful effect on brain functioning....

Vitamin E useful for Alzheimer's

Vitamin E taken daily could protect the brain and prevent the onset of diseases such as Alzheime...covered it is possible to reverse a degenerative// brain disease simply by taking vitamin E. They say the supplement is a powerful antidote to the oxidativ...

Why a headache?

..., hence their name. In the past, high-resolution brain scans have shown no abnormalities in the brain structure of cluster headache sufferers. But using the latest imaging techniques, Professor Goadsby ...

The brain wave

Researchers now say that a region in the brain responsible for imitation may be behind the unique...ists searching for roots of empathy have now found brain regions involved in learning by imitation.// They have also identified a network of brain regions t...

New swift therapy limits stroke damage

...that it dilates// the blood vessels that serve the brain and prevents a damaging build-up of calcium in brain cells. According to researchers at University of Texas, they have shown for the first time that th...

Staying mentally energitic prevents Alzheimer's

...se it or lose it' advice when it comes keeping the brain active. It is long been believed that mental stimulation can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease.// Researchers at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Centre in the US now reveal ...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

...g body temperature by just a few degrees minimises brain damage resulting from a cardiac arrest.When the he...- cardiac arrest - there's a great danger that the brain will be starved of oxygen. //Even if the person survives, they run the risk of permanent brain damag...

Dental x-rays to prognosticate heart attacks

...of the neck that carry blood from the heart to the brain and back. The study involved 3,200 new patients in dental clinics. The UB researchers evaluated baseline panoramic dental X-rays for calcified plaque in the carotid arteries from 964 participants. They found calcification in 7.5 percent of the study...

Cleft lip and palate are due to abnormality in brain structure

... lip and palate are associated with permutation in brain structure that appear to cause cognitive dysfuncti...searchers used magnetic resonance imaging to study brain volume and tissue composition. They found that the volume of the anterior portion of the cerebrum wa...

Comprehension of taste receptor

...y of proteins remotely related to receptors in the brain that recognise the amino acid glutamate and related chemicals.Different T1R genes can be expressed in cells in different combinations to yield cells that respond to a specific taste. For example, T1R2 and T1R3 joined together function as a sweet rece...

Eyedrops for amblyopia

Lazy eye is a condition in which the brain favors one eye over the other. It is the most common cause of visual impairment in children, with symptoms including crossed eyes, farsightedness and nearsightedness.// Lazy eye affects as many as 3% of U.S. children and usually develops in infancy o...

Chew to improve memory

...elp to make people smarter by improving memory and brain performance, research suggests. In tests, scientis...duction of insulin, which stimulates a part of the brain involved in memory. Dr Andrew Scholey, who carried out the study, said: "When you chew, the body rel...

High Cholesterol linked to Alzheimer’s diseas

Alzheimer's is a degenerative brain disease that usually begins gradually, causing a p...nd that high cholesterol levels appear to harm the brain and lead to the type of mental decline seen in Alzheimer’s disease. But it also found that older wom...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

... good,// however, they must be administered before brain cells die. The current standard requires that trea... We can't relax for one minute. With every minute, brain cells are dying by the tens of thousands. '' said Dr. Thomas G. Brott of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonv...

Nose plug: switch that stops smelling

... the brain's 'nose plug' that is the switch in the brain that lets us stop smelling something, even though ... to detect smells and send that information to the brain as an electrical signal. The ‘nose’ is really a channel in the neurons’ membrane that opens when a...

Heart bypass-mental decline link

...use tiny blood clots or air bubbles to flow to the brain and cause strokes or other brain damage. Researchers said one possible explanation is that the off-pump device might also contribute ...

New treatment for muscle spasms

...ng. 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 spasm. The scientists, led by Dr Marinos Dalakas, of the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, carried out tests on 23 patients with SPS. Half were s...

Treating eye pain eases migraine

... reported pain in the eye socket. Tests, including brain imaging, revealed that they had trochleitis. Steroid injections reduced the inflammation and this produced relief of the eye pain and the migraine symptoms. The researchers believe that steroid injections might be considered for people with other hea...

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