by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Research
It isn’t uncommon for people to pass for ages much older or younger than their years, but researchers have now found that this feature doesn’t apply to our brains. The findings reported online on August 16 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, show...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Research
A mysterious region deep in the human brain could be where we sort through the onslaught of stimuli from the outside world and focus on the information most important to our behavior and survival, Princeton University researchers have found. The researchers report in...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Concussion
UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers this week announced an important finding: residual symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and concussions may be linked in military personnel who endure blast and/or blunt traumas. Anthony Kontos, Ph.D.,...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Brain Complications
Current HIV drug therapies are not able to control the virus’ complete replication in the brain and are therefore ineffective against complications linked to neurocognitive impairment in HIV patients. However, a new study published online in the Journal of...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Research
A study published in the August 20 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals that an international team of scientists at Saskatchewan University discovered a protein in semen, which influences the female brain to prompt ovulation...
