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Dyslexia due to cerebellum abnormality

Dyslexia a most common learning disorder, affects nearly one in 24 people. People with dyslexia often have great difficulty learning to read, write and spell. Dyslexia was found to have been linked to reduced activity in the cerebellum // of the brain that controls movement, co-ordination and balance, scientists have reported. The research, which was led by Professor Roderick Nicolson...

Cleft lip and palate are due to abnormality in brain structure

Clefts of the lip and palate are associated with permutation in brain structure that appear to cause cognitive dysfunction, according to a study recently conducted by researchers at the University of Iowa.// Studying 54 adult men with nonsyndromic facial clefts and 54 male control subjects, the researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to study brain volume and tissue composition. T...

Early Detection Of Facial Abnormalities in a Fetus

A cleft happens when the tissues of the face fail to fuse during gestation. It is a repairable birth defect. Cleft lip and palate are the most common facial malformation in newborns. It affects about one in 700 babies.//New research shows fetal magnetic resonance imaging may be more accurate at detecting cleft lip and palate than a sonogram. The detection rates when using sonography for...

Abnormal Brain Structure One Of The Reasons For Depression in Adolescents

A new study shows the reason some adolescents experience depression could be abnormal brain structure.// The study states depressed teenagers tend to have a smaller hippocampus -- the part of the brain responsible for memory, learning, emotion and motivation. Researchers sampled nearly 30 adolescents between ages 13 to 18, half of who had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder.Mag...

Antidepressants Could Lead To Abnormal Bleeding

According to a recent study researchers now say that the antidepressant known as serotonin reuptake inhibitors have a higher risk // of being admitted to a hospital for abnormal bleeding. Researchers examined data from 1992 to 2000 on over 64,000 new antidepressant users. They evaluated the impact of serotonin reuptake inhibition levels on the risk for abnormal bleeding. Researchers cla...

Obese children may have abnormalities of lipoproteins

Childhood obesity may lead to abnormalities in lipoproteins and may lead to cardiovascular problems in children//. High-density lipoproteins (HDL) are good cholesterols that are good for the body, while low-density lipoproteins (LDL) are bad cholesterols and these should not be allowed to accumulate as it increases the cardiovascular risks by clogging the arteries. Lipid a...

Test for prenatal chromosomal abnormalities using cervical swab

Australian researchers have discovered a new method to test for prenatal chromosomal// abnormalities using cervical swabs. Testing fetus for chromosomal abnormalities are currently done through amniocentesis and other methods of screenings. In their new research, the scientists have been able to isolate single cells of the fetus from the cervical mucus of the pregnant woman with the he...

People with abnormal heart rhythms must avoid fish oil

Fish oil supplements may be harmful for people with abnormal heartbeats, says the new research// on the subject. Fish oil is noted for omega 3 fatty acids that are essential to the body in terms of regulating blood pressure and blood clotting and must be taken in as supplements. These fatty acids are known to have preventive properties for disease like Alzheimer’s, arthritis, breast ca...

Abnormal heart rate and depression may increase death risk

Scientists have identified how depression plays an important role in increasing death risk.// It is the incidence of abnormal heart beats in a depressed person that can kill him. Depression had long been taken as a factor for increased risk of death from heart disease. Now the team of researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has established that abnormal h...

Inflammatory bowel disease linked to genetic abnormality

A genetic abnormality originally discovered in plants, has been pin pointed in humans as being responsible for increasing the susceptibility to Crohn's disease and bowel inflammation. The chances of developing an inherited form of the diseases increases by atleast 25% when a person happens to have a mutation on chromosome 16. The study was led by a group of researchers fr...

Opioids And Abnormal Pain Perception

A growing number of animal and human studies show that under certain circumstances, opioids can elicit unexpected changes in pain sensitivity, resulting in hyperalgesia (abnormally intense pain in response to painful// stimulation) and allodynia (abnormally intense pain in response to non-painful stimulation). Interestingly, previous studies have found evidence for hyperalgesi...

Cancer Causing Proteins Trigger Abnormal Biochemical Reactions In Cells

These findings were published by chemists at Harvard University, who say that these proteins and the biochemical reactions that they trigger could hold the key to oncogenesis,// the process of formation of cancer in the body. Cancer arises when an oncoprotien, a protein known to cause cancer, is activated and becomes the trigger for the development of cancer, 'We present the hypothesis th...

Neglect In Childhood Could Cause Abnormal Behaviour In Adults

Children neglected in their childhood are likely to develop abnormal behaviour, says a study.Psychologist Seth Pollak and doctoral student Alison Wismer Fries at University of Wisconsin-Madison studied// 18 four-year-old adoptees, who had spent their first years in orphanages in Russia and Romania, mostly in a neglected environment. Even though the children now live in stable homes...

Detecting Brain Abnormalities in Babies Using New Brain Scanners.

Dr Adam Gibson and his research team are all set to improve the already existing brain scanner (MONSTIR). This brain scanner provides an insight about the functioning of the brain, oxygen supply to it etc. // It was developed by University College London (UCL) and was funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). As of now there are 2 different methods...

Finger And Toe abnormalities Related to Maternal Smoking

In the largest study ever conducted on the effects of smoking and incidence of birth defects, it has now been found that maternal smoking is associated with an increased risk of finger and toe abnormalities. // The birth defects could range from polydactly (presence of extra digits in either the arms or feet) to webbed (syndactyly) or missing toes and fingers (adactyly). The researche...

New Abnormal Karyotypes Discovered in China

Experts at the Technological Centre for Healthy Birth under the Guangdong Family Planning Research Institute in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province claim that they have discovered 39 cases of new abnormal chromosomes. // They said that these would provide more information to scientists for genetic and cloning researches. Director of the centre Zheng Lixin told the press that th...

Brain Abnormalities Raise the Risk of PTSD

PTSD is an anxiety disorder that develops after exposure to combat or another extremely disturbing event. According to a study it was found that Vietnam combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) //when compared with their non-combat exposed, identical twins had minor neurologic deficits. It suggests that these deficits are not acquired by exposure to traumatic events but...

Medication Abuse In Chronic Migraine May Cause Hormonal Abnormalities

A study suggests that people with chronic migraines who overuse pain relievers may have abnormalities in certain hormonal responses//. Dr. Innocenzo Rainero the study's lead author stated that though not yet clearly understood if overusing migraine medications can sometimes cause periodic migraines to become chronic, the new findings does suggest that altered hormone regulation may be...

Abnormal Heart Rhythm Controlled By Cholesterol Drugs

cardiomyopathy,defibrillitor,Statins, a group of commonly used cholesterol-lowering drugs, used by patients with enlarged hearts// (dilated cardiomyopathy) due to an anti-arrhythmic effect. Scientists with the Multicenter defibrillators in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy Treatment Evaluation (definite) committee evaluated about 458 sudden cardiac deaths with cardiomyopathy due to a survival...

Abnormal Glucose Metabolism May Contribute to Chronic Nerve Disorder

CHICAGO - Abnormal glucose metabolism, which occurs when the body has difficulty processing sugar (glucose) into energy, is twice as common among patients //with chronic nerve dysfunction of unknown cause than among the general population and may be a risk factor for the condition, according to a study posted online today that will appear in the August 2006 print issue of Archives of Neur...

Fish Oil does not Appear to Protect Against Abnormal Heart Rhythms

CHICAGO - Patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator did not have a significantly lower risk of serious abnormal heart rhythms// or death by consuming fish oil supplements, which had been thought to have a protective effect, according to a study in the June 14 issue of JAMA. Sudden cardiac death is responsible for approximately 50 percent of all death from cardiovascular di...

Pre Mature Babies Face the Risk Developmental Abnormalities

According to the study conducted by Dr. Malika Delobel-Ayoub, from the Research Unit on Perinatal Health and Women's Health in Villejuif, France, and colleagues// it is found that pre mature babies develop behavioral problems. Pre mature babies are those which are born several weeks ahead of its gestation date. They develop behavioral problems later in life compared with children who are...

Seroxat Heart Abnormalities Risk Doubted

Seroxat, the anti-depressant that had been linked to heart abnormalities, is apparently safe to use in pregnant women, German researchers told a European fertility conference yesterday//. The researchers said that they found no increased risk and that women might have unnecessarily terminated their pregnancies fearing that the drug could affect their babies. Researchers at the Univer...

Abnormal Abeta - Protein Level in Human Brain Trigger Alzheimer's Risk

A New diagnosis method to monitor the production and clearance rates of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) proved beneficial in tracking human brain disorders. // Amyloid Beta Peptide (Abeta) protein levels in the central nervous system of humans can now be possibly diagnosed with the new monitoring method developed by the researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis....

Structural Abnormalities in Brains of William Syndrome Patients

Structural abnormalities were found in a particular brain area of patients afflicted with Williams syndrome according to a study conducted// at the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Williams syndrome is a rare genetic disorder where children love music and, will therefore spend hours listening to or making music. Ursula Bellugi,...

Link Between Huntington’s and Abnormal Cholesterol Levels in Brain Establishe

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a protein interaction that may explain how the deadly Huntington’s disease affects the brain.// The findings, published in and featured on the cover of the current issue of Human Molecular Genetics, show how the mutated Huntington’s protein interacts with another protein to cause dramatic accumulation of cholesterol in the brain. “Cholesterol i...

Blocking Glucocorticoid Prevents Stress-Induced Skin Abnormalities

Inhibiting glucocorticoid, a type of steroid, can prevent skin abnormalities induced by psychological stress, according to a new study from the December //issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. The new study also shows how psychological stress induces skin abnormalities that could initiate or worsen skin disorders such as psoriasis...

Abnormal Height Loss May Forecast Mortality in Men

Investigators have said that loss of height which happens as people catch up with age is fine, but one needs to guard against undue loss of height//, which could have major repercussions on health, increasing the chances of early death. A recent study indicated that a loss of about 3 centimeters or more in height of men as they age is associated with a greater risk of death, as compar...

Missing Molecule Has Important Role in a Developmental Brain Abnormality

A molecule that is part of a complex signaling network in the developing brain plays //a critical role in periventricular heterotopia (PVH), a congenital brain malformation, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Neuron. PVH often leads to a variety of neurological disorders such as epilepsy, mental retardation, and learning or memory deficits. It has many environmental and gen...

Abnormalities in Eye Movements and Attention can Predict Schizophrenia

A Binghamton University researcher has established a new framework to help determine whether individuals might be at risk// for schizophrenia. In a study published in this month’s Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Mark F. Lenzenweger, a professor of clinical science, neuroscience and cognitive psychology at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY), is the first to have...

Girls Born With HIV Infection at Higher Risk for Cervical Abnormalities

A generation of children born with HIV are now coming of age and reaching sexual maturity. Girls in this group who are sexually active are experiencing a higher number than// expected of cervical abnormalities, a new study finds. Researchers monitored the rate of first-time pregnancies, genital health and Pap test results of 638 girls, ages13 and over, who became infected with HIV aroun...

Abnormality in the Red Blood Count Cell Poses High Risks

"This is the first study to show that even mildly abnormal levels (of red blood cells) could be detrimental in elderly men undergoing major surgery," said Dr. Wen-Chih Wu of the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Brown University in Rhode Island. A new study by researchers at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown Uni...

Abnormal Face Processing in Toddlers With Autism

Toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have difficulty focusing on peoples faces and making eye contact, but a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers found that these same toddlers do not have difficulty looking at photographs of faces. The researchers, led by Yale Child Study Center Assistant Professor Katarzyna Chawarska, will present their work at the Int...

New Cervical Cancer Test Increases the Detection Rate of Abnormal Cells

Newswise A new computerised screening test for cervical cancer detects more abnormalities than the traditional smear test , according to a study published on bmj.com today. It could also lead to fewer women needing to be re-tested and might allow for longer intervals in-between testing, says Elizabeth Davey and her colleagues. The manual screening of conventional pa...

New Technology Makes Diagnosis of Abnormal Pregnancy Cheaper

Indian scientists have developed a new technology that will help diagnose at a very early stage and at affordable cost abnormal pregnancies that can lead to miscarriages and stillbirths . Such cases, called ectopic pregnancies, can be detected even before it can be spotted by an ultrasound machine, said scientists at the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), a gov...