From the Monash University press release via ScienceDaily: New treatments to lessen the severity of the more than 21,000 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) cases that occur in Australia each year are on the horizon. Published…
From the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry via EurekAlert!: Researchers from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, will present the findings of a new study suggesting a link between…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: Higher levels of a certain fat in the blood called ceramides may increase a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published…
From the Mayo Clinic press release via ScienceDaily: Activity lingers longer in certain areas of the brain in those with Alzheimer’s than it does in healthy people, Mayo Clinic researchers who created a map of…
From the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) press release: Far from processing every word we read or hear, our brains often do not even notice key words that can change the whole meaning of…
From the Springer Science+Business Media press release via ScienceDaily: Can you teach an old dog (or human) new tricks? Yes, but it might take time, practice, and hard work before he or she gets it…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a cause-and-effect relationship between two well-established biological risk factors for schizophrenia previously believed to be independent of one another.…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release by Michael C. Purdy via ScienceDaily: Scientists have assembled the most detailed chronology to date of the human brain’s long, slow slide into full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.…
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via MedicalXpress: Among patients with mild or no cognitive impairment, brain scans using a new radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer’s disease that may predict…
From the National Academy of Sciences press release via Physorg: Educational and business leaders want today’s students both to master school subjects and to excel in areas such as problem solving, critical thinking, and communication…