From the Henry Ford Health System media release: Co-existing psychiatric illness should be considered in assessing hospital readmissions for three common medical conditions used by Medicare and Medicaid to penalize hospitals with “excessive” readmission rates.…
From the Rice University media release: Carbon nanotube fibers invented at Rice University may provide the best way to communicate directly with the brain. The fibers have proven superior to metal electrodes for deep brain…
From the University of California – Berkeley media release: What if there were a pill that made you more compassionate and more likely to give spare change to someone less fortunate? UC Berkeley scientists have…
From the media release: Research results published in the Journal of Neurotrauma and conducted by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) as part of a collaboration with Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. showed that a novel…
From the Henry Ford Health System media release: Innovative angles of attack in research that focus on how the human brain protects and repairs itself will help develop treatments for one of the most common, costly,…
From the Technische Universitaet Muenchen media release: A momentary lapse of concentration is all it takes for a finger to become trapped or sprain an ankle — and it hurts. Pain is the body’s protective…
From the Mayo Clinic media release: Mayo Clinic research finds direct evidence of gadolinium deposition in neuronal tissues following intravenous administration of gadolinium-based contrast agents used in MRI exams. The findings were recently published online in…
From the University of Florida media release: The mechanism that causes high-performance athletes to “feel the burn” turns out to be the culprit in what makes people with chronic fatigue syndrome feel exhausted by the…
From the University of California – Los Aangeles (UCLA) media release: People with anorexia nervosa and with body dysmorphic disorder have similar abnormalities in their brains that affect their ability to process visual information, a…
From the Goethe University Frankfurt media release: The human brain can select relevant objects from a flood of information and edit out what is irrelevant. It also knows which parts belong to a whole. If,…