11/20/2008
The Adolescent Brain (UC Newsroom)
This is your brain on adolescence: UC Berkeley researchers have conducted MRI studies of teenage brain that show why kids act before they think.
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11/17/2008
Doctors can now detect mild brain injuries more easily (USA Today)
Scientists are coming up with new ways to detect mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and treat it, according to research presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience here.
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11/17/2008
Doctors can now detect mild, traumatic brain injuries easier (WZZM 13 Grand Rapids)
Doctors can now detect mild, traumatic brain injuries easier
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11/17/2008
Early-onset familial Alzheimer disease provides clues to treatment of common Alzheimer's (News-Medical-Net)
The rarest kind of Alzheimer Disease (AD) - the form that transmits from parent to child with a cruel 50 percent likelihood - has been valued for its potential to shed light for the millions of people affected by the common form of AD.
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11/13/2008
The Silver Lining in a Heartbreaking Disease (Newswise)
Individuals who have Early-onset Familial Alzheimer Disease (eFAD) can in theory be studied and targeted for preventive treatments, but because they are few and far between, researchers doubted such studies were feasible. Now, the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN,) is set to tackle this challenge. The web's leading resource on AD research explains the premise and promise of DIAN.
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11/05/2008
Five Ways Brain Scans Mislead Us (Scientific American)
Over the past few hundred years, as scientists have grappled with understanding the source of the amazing processing power in our skulls, they have employed a number of metaphors based on familiar technologies of their given era. The brain has been thought of as a hydraulic machine (18th century), a mechanical calculator (19th century) and an electronic computer (20th century). Today, early in ...
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11/05/2008
3. The Neuropsychology of Pat Martino (All About Jazz)
Paul Broks is a prominent British neuropsychologist who is featured in the documentary film, Martino Unstrung , where he conducts a real-life study of guitarist Pat Martino's famed memory loss and recovery.
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11/03/2008
Food as drugs? (Oregon Daily Emerald)
McMenamin's pub serves a chocolate milkshake containing the restaurant's signature stout beer, a combination that may seem counterintuitive when it comes to taste. However, a recent study suggests it probably makes sense to the reward center of the drinker's brain.
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