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Alcohol Might Help In Brain Injury Recovery

A new study conducts alcohol may help people survive trauma to the head, and should perhaps be considered as a treatment method for patients with brain injuries in the future. The study, published in the Archives of Surgery, compared the outcome of patients who had been...

Obama to address Children vs WWII - Never let this happen again!

"Today, our President Obama has said he was going to address the Children of America.  There is one group of America's who are concerned that this amounts to an political indoctrination of young persons in v various stages of there intellectual development.  On...

How to destroy America from within, for Dummies!

If primitive war tactic is to destroy the children of your enemy, then Americans will be attacked from within when 75 million students return to school in September, –on time for the next 9/11 anniversary.With this dramatic opening comment, I'm hoping that a case of...

How Does Your Brain Work?

" If you see this lady turning in clockwise you are using your right brain.If you see it the other way, you are using left brain.Some people do see both ways, but most people see it only one way.See if you can...

Artificial brain '10 years away' - End of the human race?

" A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed. Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat...

Girl with half a brain develops 2-in-1 eye

The capacity for the human brain to adapt still causes amazement and this story when we delve behind the lurid headline is such an example. Born with only one hemisphere of a brain this girl's brain appears to...

Quakes of the brain? Hope for epileptics

  US scientists are investigating the concept of universality, power laws, direct and inverse Omori laws and finding similarities between brain electric activity during seizures and seismological data that...

Genes From Canines may help cure Brain Cancer

Pinpointing the genes involved in human brain cancer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and sometimes the needle you find may not be the right one. By comparing human and canine genomes, researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that a gene...

Jackson to be buried without brain: Report

"Press Trust of India, Sunday July 5, 2009, London " " Michael Jackson will be buried without his brain in a private ceremony on Tuesday by his family. The pop star, 50, died after a suspected cardiac arrest on Tuesday but the circumstances around his death...

Getting Along With People Who Don’t Act Right Like You

In Star Trek two heroes in-the-making, one impulsively intuitive, the other straining to be rational, recognize they can learn from each other. So can women and men. How do you react in a hot situation? “A thought comes when it will, not when I will,” wrote...

Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'

ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2009) — U.S. and Brazilian scientists have discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite,...

Pacemaker for Brains to Treat Widspread Disorders

Deep brain stimulation has been used much like a pacemaker for the brain to treat Parkinson's Disease.  The electrical stimulation of brain tissue seems to diminishes symptoms associated with that...

Brain Damage Recovery Made Difficult by Smoking

" .fullpost{display:inline;} Some of the damage would have otherwise been reversedThe frontal and parietal cortices of the human brain are especially prone to being damaged by excessive alcohol consumption, researches show, but most of that damage can be reversed by...

Alzheimer's Hits 5.3 Million in US - Report

Some 5.3 million people in the US have Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association.  The healthcare costs related to Alzheimer's patients are more than triple those of other older people,...

Brains needed to find a cure for Parkinson's disease

The Parkinson's Disease Society has set up a donor registry for people to donate their brains after death to help find a cure for Parkinson's disease. " People are being urged to donate their brains after death to...

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