From the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) media release: With mounting concerns about postoperative seizures, doctors at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia placed 161 neonates who had undergone cardiac surgery on continuous EEG monitoring. They…
From the VIB – Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology media release: Genetic analysis of human patients has shown that mutations in genes involved in synaptic communication can drive neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases such as autism spectrum…
From the SAGE Publications media release: The study, by scientists at the University of St Andrews, shows that simple increases in a man’s height and age automatically makes them appear more dominant. The research, published by…
From the University of Kansas media release: Compulsory schooling laws instituted in the late 1800s and early 1900s caused more people in Northern states to marry people at their same education level and race, possibly contributing…
From the Indiana University media release: People being treated for bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses are at greater risk of attempting suicide, but physicians may now have tools to predict which of those individuals will…
From the Elsevier media release: Anyone who has seen pictures or models of the human brain is aware that the outside layer, or cortex, of the brain is folded in an intricate pattern of “hills,” called…
From the The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine media release: Schizophrenia is associated with structural and functional alterations of the visual system, including specific structural changes in the eye. Tracking such changes…
From the SOCIETY OF NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SURGERY media release: Two new studies presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery 12th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, report that Mobile Stroke Treatment Units (MSTUs) can significantly reduce the…
From the UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA media release: The rapid spread of a common and deadly brain tumor has been slowed down significantly in a mouse model by cutting off the way some cancer cells communicate, according…
From the UC Berkeley media release: Like Duke Ellington’s 1931 jazz standard, the human brain improvises while its rhythm section keeps up a steady beat. But when it comes to taking on intellectually challenging tasks,…