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·June 7, 2011·2 min read

Construction Industry Has Highest Number of Traumatic Brain Injuries in US Workplace

American Journal of Preventive Medicine publishes first national study of occupational fatalities Although traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of...

Autism

·May 25, 2011·3 min read

Autism Changes Molecular Structure of the Brain

Discovery points to a common cause for multifaceted disease For decades, autism researchers have faced a baffling riddle: how to...

Autism Neurology

·April 28, 2011·2 min read

5-minute Screen Identifies Subtle Signs of Autism in 1-year olds

NIH-funded study demonstrates feasibility and effectiveness of conducting systematic screening during well-baby check-ups A five-minute checklist that parents can fill...

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·April 12, 2011·3 min read

Weight Loss Improves Memory

John Gunstad, an associate professor in Kent State University’s Department of Psychology, and a team of researchers have discovered a...

Genetics Neurology

·April 4, 2011·2 min read

Study Provides First Link Between 2 Major Parkinson’s Genes

As Parkinson’s Awareness Month gets underway, a Canadian-led international study is providing important new insight into Parkinson’s disease and paving...

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·April 2, 2011·8 min read

World Autism Awareness Day – Share the Facts About Autism Spectrum Disorders

World Autism Awareness Day is here. April 2, 2011 marks the fourth annual World Autism Awareness Day. To help build...

Featured Psychology

·March 11, 2011·6 min read

Live Longer and Prosper by Doing the Opposite of What You’ve Heard: Maybe Read this First

The claim that stress can shorten your life isn’t necessarily true, according to researchers at UC Riverside. Undertaking a twenty...

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·March 4, 2011·4 min read

Neuronal Loss in ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Possibly Due to TDP-43 Loss

Research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has lead to new information about neuronal loss...

Featured Neuroscience

·November 30, 2010·3 min read

Diabetes Slows Synthesis of Brain Cholesterol

Diabetes research with mice has shown that diabetes can slow down the synthesis of brain cholesterol, important in synapse formation and many other neuronal functions.

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·October 25, 2010·5 min read

Computational Neuroscience Suggests Potassium Channels More Involved in MS Than Thought

Computational models of axonal properties suggest that problems associated with MS, and other demyelinating diseases, may be due more to an imbalance between sodium channels and potassium channels that play a role in the leak current in neuronal membranes, than to the currently targeted sodium channels of most MS drugs.

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·October 22, 2010·3 min read

70 Years Old and Smarter Than Ever

A large study of 70-year-olds born in either 1901-1902, or 1930, provides evidence that the population of 70-year-olds in 2000 did much better on intelligence tests than the 70-year-olds of 1971-72.