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Scientists have found effective brain regions for deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s

Scientists were considering whether it is possible to help patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease// by using a procedure called deep brain stimulation. In a recent research, scientists from Oregon Health and Science University have found out two specific areas of brain, where the procedure of deep brain stimulation may be used. The treatment for Parkinson’s consists of the drug le...

Overactive brain regions can lead to anorexia nervosa

Over activity of a chemical in a specific region of the brain may be responsible// for the eating disorder of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by purposeful weight loss that is often brought about by the patient. Poor self-image often causes the disorder that may result in malnutrition of varying degrees, with endocrine and metabolic changes happen...

Brain Regions Do Not Communicate Efficiently in Adults with Autism

A novel look at the brains of adults with autism has provided new evidence that various brain regions of people with the developmental disorder may not communicate// with each other as efficiently as they do in other people. Researchers from the University of Washington’s Autism Center will report here today at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on the first study that...

Tsunami-Hit Coastal Regions Needs More Relief

Now, a young man holds the hand of a little boy, looking at a row of new houses glistening in the morning sun, the area, which was in wreck two years ago, washed away by the devastating tsunami.// Angalamman Kuppam village is exuding life now. Along the innocent-looking silver beaches about 80 km south of Chennai, India, new casurina saplings are knee high and men are back to weaving ne...

Multiple Regions of the Brain Locate Pain

Spatial aspects of pain, an important component of diagnosis, are now revealed to be processed by many more areas of the brain, than previously thought.// Spatial aspects of pain are a common problem in diagnosis, said Robert Coghill, Ph.D., senior researcher on the study and a neuroscientist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Patients cannot always distinguish pain from indi...

Skin Cancer Rates Soar In Warmer Regions Of UK

Experts are voicing their concerns as cases of the deadly melanoma continue to rise over Britain and especially in sunny West Country regions like Cornwall . According to dermatologists, though the summers get increasingly hot each year, Britons are still not aware of how to protect themselves from the deadly rays. Official figures declare malignant melanoma to be the UK's f...