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Brain Health
Brain Health: refers to the ability to remember, learn, play, concentrate and maintain a clear, active mind... Simply, brain health is all about making the most of your brain and helping reduce some risks to it as you age.
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APR 30, 2016Videos
The feelings of attraction may seem magical, but they're actually very real and scientific. Whether or not you are attra ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetAPR 29, 2016Genetics & Genomics
New research with mice offers more evidence of a complex interaction between genes and the environment when it comes to ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 29, 2016Neuroscience
Binge drinking is a huge problem in the United States, with one in six adults binge drinking four times a month. Costs d ...Written By: Cassidy ReichAPR 28, 2016Genetics & Genomics
A genetic variation has evolved in populations that have eaten a plant-based diet over hundreds of generations, such as ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 27, 2016Health & Medicine
For most patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) who die, the cause of death is heart disease. Although N ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 27, 2016Neuroscience
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the US and the leading cause of both short and long-term disability. ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 26, 2016Neuroscience
While most people have used over the counter sleep aids or cold medications, some caution might be advisable for certain ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 24, 2016Microbiology
People with anorexia nervosa have very different microbial communities living in their guts compared to healthy individu ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 22, 2016Health & Medicine
Are mouse research facilities at the right temperature? A recent opinion piece/review published in Trends in Cancer seem ...Written By: Cassidy ReichAPR 21, 2016Neuroscience
Stuttering hasn’t always been well understood. While neuroscientists know a lot about how speech is acquired and h ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 20, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Injection of an immune signaling protein into mice seem to reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease progression, ...APR 20, 2016Cannabis Sciences
Hardly a week goes by without some news of new research into concussion injuries. Most of the focus is on the NFL and th ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 19, 2016Neuroscience
Have you ever wondered if new languages are currently evolving? Sure, we have such emphasis now on the benefits for your ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 19, 2016Neuroscience
While the dangers of illegal drugs have always been talked about, the exact mechanism of how these drugs affect the brai ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 18, 2016Immunology
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease that revolves around the immune system’s error ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 18, 2016Neuroscience
One of the largest issues affecting children and their ability to learn is the mental disorder Attention Deficit Hyperac ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 16, 2016Cancer
The strict ketogenic diet was used in medicine to treat intractable epilepsy long before it became a popular weight loss ...APR 14, 2016Neuroscience
Glutamate is the main excitatory neurotransmitter and is essential for many important processes in the brain. In accorda ...Written By: Cassidy ReichAPR 14, 2016Videos
Health experts and scientists have suspected the link for many months now, but a recent report in the New England Journa ...APR 14, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Prion diseases are rare and deadly diseases of the brain. Once infected, the prion particles self-propagates and convert ...APR 14, 2016Neuroscience
It’s been shown in several research studies that the brains of adults who speak more than one language are more ac ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 12, 2016Neuroscience
Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia are devastating to patients and their families because when memori ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 10, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 09, 2016Health & Medicine
A few months ago, my fellow Labroots writer Brenda Kelley Kim did a nice piece on this paper from a group at Western Uni ...Written By: Cassidy Reich
APR 30, 2016
Videos
The feelings of attraction may seem magical, but they're actually very real and scientific. Whether or not you are attra
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
APR 29, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
New research with mice offers more evidence of a complex interaction between genes and the environment when it comes to
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 29, 2016
Neuroscience
Binge drinking is a huge problem in the United States, with one in six adults binge drinking four times a month. Costs d
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
APR 28, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
A genetic variation has evolved in populations that have eaten a plant-based diet over hundreds of generations, such as
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 27, 2016
Health & Medicine
For most patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) who die, the cause of death is heart disease. Although N
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 27, 2016
Neuroscience
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the US and the leading cause of both short and long-term disability.
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 26, 2016
Neuroscience
While most people have used over the counter sleep aids or cold medications, some caution might be advisable for certain
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 24, 2016
Microbiology
People with anorexia nervosa have very different microbial communities living in their guts compared to healthy individu
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 22, 2016
Health & Medicine
Are mouse research facilities at the right temperature? A recent opinion piece/review published in Trends in Cancer seem
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
APR 21, 2016
Neuroscience
Stuttering hasn’t always been well understood. While neuroscientists know a lot about how speech is acquired and h
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 20, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Injection of an immune signaling protein into mice seem to reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease progression,
...
APR 20, 2016
Cannabis Sciences
Hardly a week goes by without some news of new research into concussion injuries. Most of the focus is on the NFL and th
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 19, 2016
Neuroscience
Have you ever wondered if new languages are currently evolving? Sure, we have such emphasis now on the benefits for your
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 19, 2016
Neuroscience
While the dangers of illegal drugs have always been talked about, the exact mechanism of how these drugs affect the brai
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 18, 2016
Immunology
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease that revolves around the immune system’s error
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 18, 2016
Neuroscience
One of the largest issues affecting children and their ability to learn is the mental disorder Attention Deficit Hyperac
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 16, 2016
Cancer
The strict ketogenic diet was used in medicine to treat intractable epilepsy long before it became a popular weight loss
...
APR 14, 2016
Neuroscience
Glutamate is the main excitatory neurotransmitter and is essential for many important processes in the brain. In accorda
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
APR 14, 2016
Videos
Health experts and scientists have suspected the link for many months now, but a recent report in the New England Journa
...
APR 14, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Prion diseases are rare and deadly diseases of the brain. Once infected, the prion particles self-propagates and convert
...
APR 14, 2016
Neuroscience
It’s been shown in several research studies that the brains of adults who speak more than one language are more ac
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 12, 2016
Neuroscience
Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia are devastating to patients and their families because when memori
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 10, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 09, 2016
Health & Medicine
A few months ago, my fellow Labroots writer Brenda Kelley Kim did a nice piece on this paper from a group at Western Uni
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich