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Region in the brain in-charge of face recognition includes object recognition as well.

.... "What's really cool is these structures are very selective in their responses - and only to one kind of object." Each of the participants in the study was shown images of faces, four-legged animals, cars and abstract sculptures, along with scrambled or "noise" images. The researchers found that overall, tw...

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs could cause gastrointestinal complications.

... indomethacin, piroxicam and ketorolac. Coxibs are selective NSAIDs. In standard doses, acetaminophen is not an NSAID. The AGA Institute panel was comprised of physicians in gastroenterology, rheumatology, cardiology and internal medicine who developed the statement based on presentations of current scientif...

Hybrid Nanoparticles for Multimodal Medical Imaging

... developed using the nanoparticles, providing more selective targeting of specific biological sites. -- Positron emission tomography (PET), in which radioisotopes are incorporated inside nanoparticles as contrast agents for more sensitive assessments of drug efficacy during therapy. -- Computed tomography ...

Low Doses of Anti-Depressant May Help PMS

...s known as ‘symptom-onset’ dosing. Sertraline is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) approved for the treatment of depression and anxiety, as well as for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe form of premenstrual syndrome. “Our study is the first to evaluate the use of low-dose antidep...

Antidepressants linked to infertility in men

... their fertility restored when they stopped taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). However, the problem resumed on the restart of the antidepressants. One patient was on citalopram, marketed as Cipramil in Britain and the other was on sertraline, sold as Lustral in Britain. The second patien...

Chemo drugs cause cognitive decline in breast cancer patients

...imination learning, tasks that are not affected by selective damage to the frontal lobes or hippocampus. "This indicates that the adverse effects of this treatment regimen of methotrexate and 5FU probably do not extend to all regions of the brain. It appears that the hippocampus and frontal lobes are primari...

Drexel Research in Cytokines Could Treat Sepsis

...ith the desired size of pores. The new method uses selective etching of inorganic crystalline carbides. The for... sepsis. Similar materials could be used for the selective adsorption of other large organic molecules and possibly viruses for other bio-related or medical ap...

Antidepressants Linked to Lower Child Suicide Rates

... and Drug Administration's "black box" warning for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications, also known as SSRI drugs. The University of Illinois at Chicago epidemiologic study appears in the November issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. The researchers examined suicide rates of children a...

Swelling of Prostate Gland Prevented with New drug

...ha. She said, “When you give one of the estrogen selective drugs that only activates a particular type of estrogen receptor, beta, you can prevent the hyperplasia from developing.” The drug was found to stop the development of the illness and improve the health of the animals which had existing BPH. Ris...

A New Option For AIDS Treatment - Radioimmunotherapy

...e an optimum dose at which the antibodies are both selective and effective . Some test-tube experiments on HIV infected human white blood cells were also done during the study, which showed that the technique successfully killed the cells. It may take a while for these findings to be tranlated to humans ...

Vitamin E Precursor Alpha-TOS Found Effective Against Breast Cancer Cells

...) had the potential to be an inexpensive, safe and selective therapy for hard-to-treat breast cancers. "Alpha-TOS has already shown promise as a potent anticancer agent in diseases such as colon cancer and mesothelioma. It induces controlled cell death or apoptosis in tumour cells." Transgenic mice with ...

A Study Finds VENs Devastated in FTD

...behavior. The researchers found early, severe, and selective loss of VENs in FTD, which showed a 69% reduction ...erall neuronal loss. "Our findings suggest that selective VEN loss is a defining feature of FTD but does not apply to AD," the researchers state, adding that ...

Structure of Iron Regulatory Protein-RNA Complex Solved

...ns to be determined is the evolutionary origin and selective advantage of such dramatic conformational plasticity and dual functionality as found in IRP1." Source-Newswise...

Electrical Activity Alters Language Used By Nerve Cells

...h it works should make it possible to be much more selective about how and where to stimulate the brain.” Source-Newswise SRM...

Study Offers Window into Human Behavior, Brain Disease

...ontotemporal dementia, there was early, severe and selective loss of von Economo neurons compared to control subjects. In Alzheimer's disease, von Economo neurons were not significantly depleted. "This finding provides new insight into how frontotemporal dementia erodes the brain at the cellular level," say...

Narcolepsy May Be Caused By Environmental Exposures: Study

...ds that, as with other diseases// characterized by selective cell loss, narcolepsy may be caused by environmental exposures before the age of onset in genetically susceptible individuals - a possible contradiction to common belief that a person's body mass index, immune responses and stressful life events are ...

Mitochondrial Protein Maintains Appetite During Fasting

...genic consequences in the brain and if so, whether selective cooling or heating of the hypothalamus could affect metabolism.” Diano said the mitochondria in the brain appear to be important players in regulating neuronal function associated with feeding behavior and energy expenditure. Mitochondrial dysfuncti...

Genetic Tests in the Treatment of Depression Not Yet Useful

...the dose of medications in a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors //(SSRIs) improve patient outcomes or aid in treatment decisions in the clinical setting, according to a new evidence report supported by a collaboration of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Centers ...

Selective Marker Found to Indicate Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

...l School demonstrate that nestin could represent a selective biological marker for basal epithelial breast tumors, a highly aggressive cancer with similarities to mammary stem cells, the regenerative cells believed to be the site of breast cancer initiation. 'Patients with this type of breast cancer are at ...

Selective Marker Found to Indicate Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

...l School demonstrate that nestin could represent a selective biological marker for basal epithelial breast tumors, a highly aggressive cancer with similarities to mammary stem cells, the regenerative cells believed to be the site of breast cancer initiation. 'Patients with this type of breast cancer are at ...

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