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 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA media release: For some people suffering from chronic pain, part of their daily routine is recording the extent of it in a pain diary. Often done at the request of their…
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 JAMA NETWORK JOURNALS media release: Patients with Parkinson disease who experienced pain before undergoing subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) had that pain improved or eliminated at eight years after surgery, although…
From the UNIVERSITY OF YORK media release: Research by biologists at the University of York has identified new mechanisms potentially driving progression of an aggressive form of dementia. The research, which was funded by Alzheimer’s Society…
From the DEUTSCHES AERZTEBLATT INTERNATIONAL media release: Verbal abuse, aggressive behaviour, criminal damage to objects–such incidents are to be expected within certain professions. Hardly anyone had included doctors in this thinking, however, although they too are…
From the Springer media release: There is no doubt that teenage boys and girls are swayed and shaped by music TV. For example, sexually active youth of both genders, after watching music TV, think their…
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…