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  Combo of Avastin, Second Drug Shows Promise Fighting Brain Cancer

  February 14, 2013 — The drug bevacizumab, also known by the trade name Avastin, shrinks tumors briefly in patients with an aggressive brain cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme, but then they often grow again and ... > full story
• Eye Care
  Perception
  Diseases and Conditions
  Brain Injury
  Nervous System
  Neuroscience
   
  

  Vision Restored With Total Darkness in Kittens With Amblyopia

  February 14, 2013 — Restoring vision might sometimes be as simple as turning out the lights. That's according to a study in which researchers examined kittens with a visual impairment known as amblyopia before and after ... > full story
• Autism
  Children's Health
  Child Development
  Psychology
  Intelligence
  Child Psychology
   

  Behavioral Therapy for Children With Autism Can Impact Brain Function

  February 14, 2013 — Using functional magnetic resonance imaging for before-and-after analysis, a team of researchers discovered positive changes in brain activity in children with autism who received a particular type ... > full story
• Language Acquisition
  Neuroscience
  Child Development
  Behavioral Science
  Perception
  Educational Psychology
   
  

  Roots of Language in Human and Bird Biology: Genes Activated for Human Speech Similar to Ones Used by Singing Songbirds

  February 14, 2013 — The neuroanatomy of human speech and bird song share structural features, behaviors and now gene expression ... > full story
• Mental Health
  Depression
  Mental Health Research
  Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Anxiety
   

  Even Limited Physical Activity Is Linked to Lower Rates of Depression in Bariatric Surgery Patients

  February 14, 2013 — For adults undergoing bariatric surgery, just one hour of moderate-intensity physical activity a week -- or eight minutes a day -- was associated with 92 percent lower odds of treatment for ... > full story
• Child Development
  Language Acquisition
  Perception
  Intelligence
  Tinnitus
  Educational Psychology
   
  

  Love of Musical Harmony Is Not Nature but Nurture

  February 14, 2013 — Our love of music and appreciation of musical harmony is learnt and not based on natural ability, a new study has ... > full story
• Intelligence
  Perception
  Neuroscience
  Psychology Research
  Eye Care
  Nervous System
   

  Our Primitive Reflexes May Be More Sophisticated Than They Appear, Study Shows

  February 14, 2013 — Supposedly 'primitive' reflexes may involve more sophisticated brain function than previously thought, according to ... > full story
• Mad Cow Disease
  Child Development
  Huntington's Disease
  Nervous System
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Alzheimer's
   

  The Good Side of the Prion: A Molecule That Is Not Only Dangerous, but Can Help the Brain Grow

  February 14, 2013 — A few years ago it was found that certain proteins, called prions, when defective are dangerous, as they are involved in neurodegenerative syndromes such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Alzheimer's ... > full story
• Political Science
  Intelligence
  Brain Injury
  Neuroscience
  Gender Difference
  Psychology
   
  

  Red Brain, Blue Brain: Republicans and Democrats Process Risk Differently, Research Finds

  February 13, 2013 — A team of political scientists and neuroscientists has shown that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they make risky decisions, and these regions can be used to predict ... > full story
• PTSD
  Mental Health Research
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Stress
  Psychiatry
  Mental Health
   
  

  Threat Bias Interacts With Combat, Gene to Boost PTSD Risk

  February 13, 2013 — Soldiers preoccupied with threat at the time of enlistment or with avoiding it just before deployment were more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in a study of Israeli ... > full story

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