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Brain Damage
Brain Damage: is an injury that causes the destruction or deterioration of brain cells. In the U.S., every year, about 2.6 million people have some type of brain injury -- whether as a result of trauma, stroke, tumor, or other illnesses.
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JUL 28, 2016Cancer
Metastatic melanoma is one of the most savage killers in its ability to escape detection and spread to other parts of th ...JUL 28, 2016Neuroscience
What’s the old expression, the way to a person’s heart is through the stomach? That might work when it&rsquo ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 27, 2016Neuroscience
Synapses are the connections between neurons that allow them to communicate with each other. When synapses become compro ...Written By: Cassidy ReichJUL 26, 2016Neuroscience
There is much that researchers and scientists don’t know about the brain. Storing memories, creating new ones and ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 20, 2016Neuroscience
A week ago, I wrote this article about PDE4B inhibitors to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI). This kind of inhibitor is ...Written By: Cassidy ReichJUL 20, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Wouldn’t it be nice if brain surgeons had a window to your brain? Well, scientists at the University of California ...JUL 16, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
People suffering from essential tremors now have a new treatment option that promises to be less invasive and more effec ...JUL 13, 2016Neuroscience
When medical professionals have to determine a patient’s condition, they look to their vital signs---heart rate, r ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 01, 2016Cancer
The diagnosis of glioblastoma often bears one of the grimmest prognosis for patients. But a new research discovery may o ...JUN 28, 2016Neuroscience
In patients who suffer from any form of dementia, the loss of memory and other effects of the disease are devastating bo ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 27, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Almost 80,000 people die each year worldwide due to brain inflammation diseases, and it’s hard to know how many of ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 24, 2016Cardiology
In the case of a heart attack, stroke, or cardiac arrest, there’s no time to pause when seeking treatment. Minutes ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 23, 2016Health & Medicine
For unknown reasons, T lymphocytes are known to go rogue, leaving the bloodstream to attack the myelin sheath, the insul ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 22, 2016Immunology
Scientists say they have a clearer picture of how Zika virus infects a developing fetus, migrating from the mo ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JUN 15, 2016Videos
While it was a very small study, and it's early days, research from Stanford University suggests that stem cells injecte ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 15, 2016Neuroscience
The expression “Seeing is believing” is one that most would agree with. The problem in neuroscience is that ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 13, 2016Neuroscience
Stem cells are sometimes seen as either controversial or lifesaving, depending on what they are being used for, but a ne ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 11, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
The controversial new procedure to create “three-parent babies” could be approved and available by as early ...JUN 06, 2016Neuroscience
Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a disease that has been puzzling neuroscientists and researchers for decades. There ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 04, 2016Videos
We often call heat stroke "sunstroke," but it's not specifically caused by direct exposure to the sun. A person can get ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetJUN 02, 2016Cardiology
A heart attack creates a state of inadequate blood supply to organs and tissues that damages heart function and forms sc ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 02, 2016Neuroscience
How dead do you have to be before you’re really dead? No, it’s not a scene from a science fiction movie, but ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 01, 2016Videos
In recent years parents have started banking the blood from the umbilical cords of their children. Cord blood contains s ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 29, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
The amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) is a crucial protein in the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Thought ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2016
Cancer
Metastatic melanoma is one of the most savage killers in its ability to escape detection and spread to other parts of th
...
JUL 28, 2016
Neuroscience
What’s the old expression, the way to a person’s heart is through the stomach? That might work when it&rsquo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 27, 2016
Neuroscience
Synapses are the connections between neurons that allow them to communicate with each other. When synapses become compro
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
JUL 26, 2016
Neuroscience
There is much that researchers and scientists don’t know about the brain. Storing memories, creating new ones and
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 20, 2016
Neuroscience
A week ago, I wrote this article about PDE4B inhibitors to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI). This kind of inhibitor is
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
JUL 20, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Wouldn’t it be nice if brain surgeons had a window to your brain? Well, scientists at the University of California
...
JUL 16, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
People suffering from essential tremors now have a new treatment option that promises to be less invasive and more effec
...
JUL 13, 2016
Neuroscience
When medical professionals have to determine a patient’s condition, they look to their vital signs---heart rate, r
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 01, 2016
Cancer
The diagnosis of glioblastoma often bears one of the grimmest prognosis for patients. But a new research discovery may o
...
JUN 28, 2016
Neuroscience
In patients who suffer from any form of dementia, the loss of memory and other effects of the disease are devastating bo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 27, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Almost 80,000 people die each year worldwide due to brain inflammation diseases, and it’s hard to know how many of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 24, 2016
Cardiology
In the case of a heart attack, stroke, or cardiac arrest, there’s no time to pause when seeking treatment. Minutes
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 23, 2016
Health & Medicine
For unknown reasons, T lymphocytes are known to go rogue, leaving the bloodstream to attack the myelin sheath, the insul
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 22, 2016
Immunology
Scientists say they have a clearer picture of how Zika virus infects a developing fetus, migrating from the mo
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUN 15, 2016
Videos
While it was a very small study, and it's early days, research from Stanford University suggests that stem cells injecte
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 15, 2016
Neuroscience
The expression “Seeing is believing” is one that most would agree with. The problem in neuroscience is that
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 13, 2016
Neuroscience
Stem cells are sometimes seen as either controversial or lifesaving, depending on what they are being used for, but a ne
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 11, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
The controversial new procedure to create “three-parent babies” could be approved and available by as early
...
JUN 06, 2016
Neuroscience
Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a disease that has been puzzling neuroscientists and researchers for decades. There
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 04, 2016
Videos
We often call heat stroke "sunstroke," but it's not specifically caused by direct exposure to the sun. A person can get
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JUN 02, 2016
Cardiology
A heart attack creates a state of inadequate blood supply to organs and tissues that damages heart function and forms sc
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 02, 2016
Neuroscience
How dead do you have to be before you’re really dead? No, it’s not a scene from a science fiction movie, but
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 01, 2016
Videos
In recent years parents have started banking the blood from the umbilical cords of their children. Cord blood contains s
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 29, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) is a crucial protein in the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Thought
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch