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Explosions cause brain damage through head movement
Brain trauma from explosions often experienced by soldiers are caused by sudden head movements rather than high-pressure shockwaves
Wed 16 May 12 from Newscientist
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Boston University, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System Study Shows First Case Series of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Blast-Exposed Military Service Personnel and Mechanism of Injury in Blast Neurotrauma
(Boston) - Investigators from Boston University (BU) and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System have shown evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in brain tissue from blast-exposed ...
Thu 17 May 12 from HealthCanal
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Let's get moving: Unravelling how locomotion starts
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the University of Bristol have shed new light on one of the great unanswered questions of neuroscience: how the brain initiates rhythmic movements like walking, ...
Wed 16 May 12 from Medical Xpress
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Active lifestyle in elderly keeps their brains running
(Medical Xpress) -- New research from Uppsala University, Sweden, suggests that an active lifestyle in late life protects grey matter and cognitive functions in humans. The findings are now ...
Tue 15 May 12 from Medical Xpress
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Spanish researchers monitor a chicken's brain
Researchers from Carlos III University in Madrid are part of a team that, for the first time ever, has been able to monitor the brain activity of a chicken embryo and to confirm that superior ...
Mon 14 May 12 from Phys.org
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Study identifies key cellular mechanisms behind the onset of tinnitus
Researchers in the University of Leicester's Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology have identified a cellular mechanism that could underlie the development of tinnitus following exposure ...
Thu 10 May 12 from Medical Xpress
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Virtual reality allows researchers to measure brain activity during behavior at unprecedented resolution
Researchers have developed a new technique which allows them to measure brain activity in large populations of nerve cells at the resolution of individual cells. The technique, reported today ...
Wed 9 May 12 from Medical Xpress
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Can new diagnostic approaches help assess brain function in unconscious, brain-injured patients?
Disorders of consciousness such as coma or a vegetative state caused by severe brain injury are poorly understood and their diagnosis has relied mainly on patient responses and measures of brain ...
Wed 9 May 12 from Medical Xpress
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Multiple thought channels may help brain avoid traffic jams
Brain networks may avoid traffic jams at their busiest intersections by communicating on different frequencies, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University ...
Sun 6 May 12 from Medical Xpress
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Maintain your brain: The secrets to aging success
Aging may seem unavoidable, but that's not necessarily so when it comes to the brain. So say researchers in the April 27th issue of the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explaining ...
Fri 27 Apr 12 from Medical Xpress
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