Better understanding cerebral palsy pain types could lead to better treatment
Pain management is an important component of caring for adults with cerebral palsy. However, it's the least understood comorbidity in the adult cerebral palsy population.
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Walking the walk, researchers develop motion compatible brain scanner
An upright neuroimaging device developed by West Virginia University neuroscientists, physicists and engineers that allows patients to move around while undergoing a brain scan could help set priorities for the evolution ...
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Cocaine discovery could pave way for treatment for substance abuse
You have probably heard of dopamine. The substance also known as the "feel-good hormone."
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If you yawn, I yawn too: New mechanisms behind imitative behavior revealed
An international team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of Bologna has investigated the neural mechanisms underlying imitative behavior: a phenomenon that facilitates interaction and social cohesion and ...
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Link discovered between sensory neurons and spread of breast cancer: Anti-nausea medication may prevent it
Cancer doesn't grow in a vacuum—each tumor grows in a particular microenvironment within the body and spreads through a tangled web of vasculature and nerves. Scientists have come to understand that the most potent therapies ...
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In probing brain-behavior nexus, big datasets are better
When designing machine learning models, researchers first train the models to recognize data patterns and then test their effectiveness. But if the datasets used to train and test aren't sufficiently large, models may appear ...
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Skin-to-skin 'kangaroo care' found to boost neurodevelopment in preemies
Skin-to-skin cuddling with a parent has lasting cognitive benefits for premature babies, according to a new Stanford Medicine study. Preemies who received more skin-to-skin contact, also known as kangaroo care, while hospitalized ...
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Dream discovery: Melatonin's key role in REM sleep revealed
A significant breakthrough in the understanding of sleep mechanism opens new promise for treating sleep disorders and associated neuropsychiatric conditions: Scientists have pinpointed the melatonin receptor MT1 as a crucial ...
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Shedding light on alcohol's impact on brain activity in social drinkers
Researchers at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and UNSW Science have conducted a study examining the impact of alcohol on the electrical conductivity of the brain, highlighting its sedative effects.
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Current challenges evaluated for measuring and treating fatigue in multiple sclerosis
Kessler Foundation research scientist John DeLuca, Ph.D., has published a clinical article in Journal of Neurology, shedding light on the elusive nature of fatigue in multiple sclerosis (MS) and its implications for treatment. ...
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What happens to your brain when you drink with friends?
Grab a drink with friends at happy hour and you're likely to feel chatty, friendly and upbeat. But grab a drink alone and you may experience feelings of depression. Researchers think they now know why this happens.
Aug 6, 2024
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Dopamine treatment found to alleviate symptoms in Alzheimer's disease
A new way to combat Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by Takaomi Saido and his team at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan. Using a mouse model, the researchers found that treatment with dopamine could ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Study reveals next frontier in reproducible brain imaging for neuroscience discovery
The Child Mind Institute has released a paper detailing their pioneering study in the journal Nature Human Behaviour titled, "Moving Beyond Processing and Analysis-Related Variation in Resting State Functional Brain Imaging."
Aug 6, 2024
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Study links premature development of human neurons to brain developmental disorders
The mechanisms underlying intellectual disabilities or autism remain largely unknown. Researchers in the labs of Prof. Pierre Vanderhaeghen and Prof. Vincent Bonin at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Exercise or snack? How our brain decides
Should I go and exercise, or would I rather go to the café and enjoy a delectable strawberry milkshake? Until now, what exactly happens in our brain when we make this decision has been a mystery to science, but researchers ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds
Racism steals time from people's lives—possibly because of the space it occupies in the mind. In a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, our team showed that the toll of racism on the brain was linked to ...
Aug 6, 2024
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New visual technique could advance early detection of neurodegenerative diseases
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new visual diagnostic technique that can be used to advance early detection of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease and similar diseases that affect ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Increased risk of dying during pregnancy for women with epilepsy calls for improved care
Women with epilepsy are four times more likely to die during pregnancy and their babies are 50% more likely to suffer illness or death. These are the findings of a major new study led by Karolinska Institutet and published ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Scientists use DNA methylation patterns as roadmap for identifying causes of severe epilepsies in children
To effectively treat a disease or disorder, doctors must first know the root cause. Such is the case for developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs), whose root causes can be hugely complex and heterogeneous.
Aug 6, 2024
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Study finds sex bias in emergency department pain management
A new study reveals a significant sex bias in pain management at emergency departments, showing that female patients are consistently less likely to receive pain medication prescriptions compared to male patients with similar ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Mouse study illuminates how fearful memories form
A newly discovered mechanism of fear memory formation in mouse brains may help reduce the negative impact of fear and provide new treatment methods for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the future , according to a ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Vestibular neurectomy effective for severe Meniere disease
Vestibular neurectomy is an effective vertigo treatment in patients with severe Meniere disease, according to a study published online June 7 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Aug 6, 2024
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Why are migraines worse during your period? Study points to progesterone, offering a new treatment target
Migraines are throbbing headaches often accompanied by nausea and increased sensitivity to light, sound and touch. Nearly 30 million Americans suffer from migraines, and almost 1 in 4 of them have at least four severe attacks ...
Aug 6, 2024
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