From the Nationwide Children’s Hospital media release: Findings from Nationwide Children’s Hospital physicians demonstrate that headaches increase in fall in children, a trend that may be due to back-to-school changes in stress, routines, and sleep.…
From the American Chemical Society media release: A bomb blast or a rough tackle can inflict brain damage that destroys lives. Yet at the time of impact, these injuries are often invisible. To detect head trauma…
From the Taylor & Francis media release: How obese people feel about themselves has much to do with how they experience social stigma and it can change over time, a new study in Health Sociology Review…
From the The University of Stavanger media release: A Norwegian study shows that girls aged two and a half years master most everyday activities better than boys. Girls of two and a half years of age…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals media release: Understanding how and why we evolved such large brains is one of the most puzzling issues in the study of human evolution. It is widely accepted…
From the BMJ media release: Previous research has suggested that beneficial effects of spices and their bioactive ingredient, capsaicin, include anti-obesity, antioxidant, anti-inflammation and anticancer properties. So an international team led by researchers at the…
From the Columbia University Medical Center media release: Researchers have discovered why long-term use of L-DOPA (levodopa), the most effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease, commonly leads to a movement problem called dyskinesia, a side effect that…
From the University of Virginia Health System media release: In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly…
From the NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke media release: Cells are powered by tiny energy reactors called mitochondria. When damaged, they leak destructive molecules that can cause substantial harm and eventually kill brain cells.…
From the DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory media release: Scientists have revealed never-before-seen details of how our brain sends rapid-fire messages between its cells. They mapped the 3-D atomic structure of a two-part protein complex that controls…