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Pulsing Light Silences Overactive Neurons
March 27, 2007 — Scientists have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as ... > full story -
Hearing Loss
Hearing Impairment
Workplace Health
Disability
Disorders and Syndromes
Diseases and Conditions
Anti-Epileptic Drugs May Help Prevent And Treat Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
March 14, 2007 — On the battlefield, a soldier's hearing can be permanently damaged in an instant by the boom of an explosion, and thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq have some permanent hearing loss. But what ... > full story -
Parkinson's Research
Health Policy
Parkinson's
Disorders and Syndromes
Diseases and Conditions
Elder Care
Neurological Disorders Affect Millions Globally: WHO Report
March 7, 2007 — A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that neurological disorders, ranging from epilepsy to Alzheimer disease, from stroke to headache, affect up to one billion people ... > full story -
Light-Activated Compound Silences Nerves, May One Day Help Epileptics
March 7, 2007 — Brain activity has been compared to a light bulb turning on in the head. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have reversed this notion, creating a drug that stops ... > full story -
Does Tooth-Brushing Cause Epilepsy Seizures?
March 5, 2007 — Tooth-brushing may trigger seizures in certain people with epilepsy, and researchers say lesions in a specific part of the brain may be a cause in some people, according to an article published in ... > full story -
Scientists Explain Inception Of Perception In The Brain
March 5, 2007 — All of human sensation -- sight, sound, taste -- begins in the brain when information moves from the thalamus to the neocortex. In Nature Neuroscience, Brown University researchers explain how ... > full story -
Epilepsy
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Sunny Days Pose Risk Of 'Flicker Illness' For A Few Airlifted Patients
March 5, 2007 — A case report published in the current issue of the journal Prehospital Emergency Care suggests that light streaming through whirling helicopter rotor blades during medical air transport can cause ... > full story -
Rare Cell Prevents Rampant Brain Activity
March 2, 2007 — One of the mysteries of the brain is how it avoids ending up in a state of chaos, something which happens only on exceptional occasions, when it can lead to epileptic fits. Scientists have now ... > full story -
No More Seizures? New Drug Holds Promise For Epilepsy Patients
February 6, 2007 — People with newly diagnosed epilepsy experienced few, if any, seizures while taking the drug levetiracetam as a single therapy, giving hope to epilepsy patients who don't respond to or can't tolerate ... > full story -
Complex Channels: Scientists Discover How Ion Channels Are Organized To Control Nerve Cell Communication
January 24, 2007 — The messages passed in a neuronal network can target something like 100 billion nerve cells in the brain alone. These, in turn, communicate with millions of other cells and organs in the body. A team ... > full story
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