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Drug That 'Tags' Decision-making Areas Of The Brain May Aid

Along with aiding efforts to study addictedsmokers, a new drug that attaches only to areas of the brain that havebeen implicated in may help studies of people battling other disorders such as Alzheimer’sdisease and schizophrenia.Developed by UC Irvine Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers...

Dead zone area in Gulf could be increasing, researchers say

The "dead zone" area of the Gulf of Mexico ?a region that annually suffers from low oxygen which can result in huge marine life losses ?has appeared much earlier this year, meaning it could be potentially larger in 2005 and affect marine life more adversely than normal, researchers are reporting. A team of scientists from Texas A&M University, Texas A&M at Galveston, Louisiana Stat...

WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned about increased risk of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever across tsunami-affected areas in Southeast Asia. Nearly four weeks after the disaster struck the region on 26 December, the organization is strengthening its disease surveillance, stagnant water conditions creating conditions for mosquito vectors to multiply to sufficient leve...

Grasping metaphors: UC San Diego research ties brain area to figures of speech

What does it take to fathom a proverb ?catch the figurative meaning of "an apple doesn't fall far from the tree"? According to research led by V. S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, a region of the brain known as the angular gyrus is probably at least partly responsible for the human ability to understand metaphor.</p...

Migratory songbirds have a specialized night-vision brain area

Neurobiologists have discovered a specialized night-vision brain area in night-migratory songbirds. They believe the area might enable the birds to navigate by the stars, and to visually detect the earth's magnetic field through photoreceptor molecules, whose light-sensitivity is modulated by the field. The researchers published their findings May 23, 2005, in the early online edition of t...

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Milwaukee area biotech ZyStor seeks more funding

Peterson explained the company's plans during an informal gathering at the Innovation Monday program. He said ZyStor, which is developing enzyme rep...

Pilot fund brings capital to Eau Claire area innovations

Developed as a result of feedback from contestants in a regional business competition, the Family and Friends Innovation Development Fund will be established as a pilot project for the rem...

Green Bay area businesses ramp up wireless access

Wireless internet access is popping up all over Green Bay, in traditional spots such as coffee shops, the airport and hotel rooms as well as a hair salon. But it's still an open question whether communities such as Green Bay will follow Madison and Milwaukee in making contracts for large-scale wireless networks that cover neighborhoods or entire sections of the city, rather than individu...

Fiserv reports strong growth in key areas

Fiserv EFT is an ATM and point-of-sale (POS) processing business. Overall, Fiserv EFT reported volume of 2.28...

Madison Development Corporation makes loans to three area companies

Madison Development Corporation reported this week that is has made $600,000 in new "Venture Debt" loans to three, fast growing Madison area technology companies. In other news, a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Wisconsin consumers against Microsoft can proceed under the state's antitrust laws, as a result of last week's state Supreme Court ruling. Also, congratulations to TDS Telecommunication...

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Obese women likey for Cesarean

Fat women are more likely for Cesarean delivery, says Dr.Bell from Duke University NC. Years ago, anesthesia had been one of the major causes of maternal mortality.// Pregnancy and obesity both make it difficult to breathe under general anesthesia, so a woman's risk is doubled when the two conditions are combined. Bell and colleagues studied more than 3000 women and calculated e...

Caesarean may aid twins

According to a new study it is observed that second twins born at term are at a higher risk of death, due to complications during labor and delivery, than first twins. However, planned caesarean section may prevent such deaths. Researchers analyzed the births of more than 3,200 twins// born in Scotland between 1995 and 1998. They found significantly increased risks of death during labor a...

Treating Stroke Patients in Rural Areas

Stroke patients in rural areas of the United States can be assessed and treated as well by a neurologist via a wireless Internet program as they can in person. That good news comes from a study in the October online issue of Stroke.// Treatment through this Internet-based program includes the use of the clot-busting drug tPA, when appropriate, to help rapidly dissolve stroke...

PET Scan find the Area of Brain Responsible for Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is a condition that usually affects young women and the condition// can sometimes be fatal. Now researcher think it is due to overactive dopamine receptors in the basal ganglia region of the brain. People with anorexia nervosa are driven to be excessively thin and are unaware of the seriousness of their condition.When you talk of Anorexia Nervosa, many will remember t...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

Women who delivered their firstborn by caesarean were less likely to conceive again //than those who had a spontaneous natural delivery says a new British study. Researchers led by Siladitya Bhattacharya at the University of Aberdeen, Britain, followed women who had their first single child - multiple births were excluded - between 1980 and 1997, reports newscientist.com. Th...

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Cortex Area Thinner in Youth with Alzheimers-Related Gene

BETHESDA, Md., April 23, 2007--A part of the brain firstaffected by Alzheimers disease (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/">http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/ )is thinner in youth with a risk gene for the disorder, a brainimaging study by researchers at the National Institute of MentalHealth (NIMH), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), hasfound. A t...

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