1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (77+ words) For the millions of people who survive a stroke or traumatic brain injury each year, the most stubborn obstacles to recovery are often invisible. While paralysed limbs and unsteady gait attract immediate clinical attention, the cognitive aftershocks—faltering attention, scrambled…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (748+ words) A new study has added fresh evidence to one of the most debated questions in the science of aging: how much does education protect the aging brain, and when exactly do different mental abilities begin to fade? The research, published…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (758+ words) The human brain is an extraordinarily expensive organ to run. Although it accounts for only about two percent of body mass, it devours roughly twenty percent of the body’s oxygen supply, and in doing so it manufactures a steady stream…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (138+ words) Insomnia has become one of the most pervasive health complaints of modern life, and the clinical arsenal for treating it remains stubbornly limited. Hypnotic drugs—the mainstay of therapy—bring with them well-documented risks of dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal, prompting…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (454+ words) 25_Kol_PM_Brain research The Times of India...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (76+ words) Cerebral amyloid angiopathy has long been defined by its most feared manifestation: bleeding into the brain. For decades, clinicians and researchers have treated this age-related disease of the brain’s small vessels as a fundamentally hemorrhagic disorder, in which amyloid protein…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (59+ words) Needles, Lactate, and the Epigenome: Electroacupuncture Blocks an Iron Cascade That Kills Stroke-Vulnerable Neurons For centuries, electroacupuncture has sat uneasily between traditional practice and hard neuroscience: clinically promising, mechanistically opaque. A new study now traces one of its effects all…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (60+ words) A Simple Blood-Pressure Cuff May Help Restore the Brain’s Blood-Flow Control After Stroke Subject of Research: Remote ischemic conditioning and cerebral blood-flow regulation in patients with acute ischemic stroke Subject of Research: Medicine Article Title: Effect of remote ischemic conditioning…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (677+ words) Takayasu arteritis, a rare inflammatory disease that attacks the body’s largest arteries, may be linked to activity deep inside the brain’s amygdala, according to a new study published in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging....