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Green Tea Extract Interferes With the Formation of Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease
March 5, 2013 Researchers have found a new potential benefit of a molecule in green tea: preventing the misfolding of specific proteins in the ... > full story -
Connectome Project Releases Brain Data
March 5, 2013 The Human Connectome Project, a five-year endeavor to link brain connectivity to human behavior, has released a set of high-quality imaging and behavioral data to the scientific ... > full story -
Better Understanding of Peripheral Neuropathy
March 5, 2013 Researchers have unlocked the key to a mechanism for peripheral neuropathy in people with multiple brain ... > full story -
Novel Storage Mechanism Allows Command, Control of Memory
March 5, 2013 Introductions at a party seemingly go in one ear and out the other. However, if you meet someone two or three times during the party, you are more likely to remember his or her name. Your brain has ... > full story -
Amputee Phantom Pain Linked to Brain Retaining Picture of Missing Limb
March 5, 2013 Changes in the brain following amputation have been linked to pain arising from the missing limb, called "phantom pain," in a brain imaging study. Arm amputees experiencing the most phantom limb pain ... > full story -
Kirk, Spock Together: Putting Emotion, Logic Into Computational Words
March 5, 2013 In a large neuroimaging study, 127 volunteers played a take-it-or-leave-it game that shows cold reasoning and hot feelings may be more intimately connected than previously ... > full story -
Mental Picture of Others Can Be Seen Using fMRI, Finds New Study
March 5, 2013 It is possible to tell who a person is thinking about by analyzing images of his or her brain. Our mental models of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using ... > full story -
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Single Gene Might Explain Dramatic Differences Among People With Schizophrenia
March 5, 2013 Some of the dramatic differences seen among patients with schizophrenia may be explained by a single gene that regulates a group of other schizophrenia risk ... > full story -
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New Gene Variant May Explain Psychotic Features in Bipolar Disorder
March 5, 2013 Researchers have found an explanation for why the level of kynurenic acid (KYNA) is higher in the brains of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disease with psychosis. The study identifies a gene ... > full story -
How the Brain Loses and Regains Consciousness: Brain Patterns Produced by General Anesthesia Revealed
March 4, 2013 Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery. Despite their widespread use, little is known about how these drugs create such a profound ... > full story
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