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– These articles focus mainly on neurology research.
– What is neurology?
– Definition of neurology: a science involved in the study of the nervous systems, especially of the diseases and disorders affecting them.
– Neurology research can include information involving brain research, neurological disorders, medicine, brain cancer, peripheral nervous systems, central nervous systems, nerve damage, brain tumors, seizures, neurosurgery, electrophysiology, BMI, brain injuries, paralysis and spinal cord treatments.

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·September 21, 2010·1 min read

Area Of Brain Responsible For Controlling Impulses Discovered

Neuroscientists have identified an area within the brain which controls impulsive behavior and have discovered the mechanisms that affect how impulsive behavior is learned. Training rats to control impulsive responses, neuroscientists discovered electrical signals between cells in the frontal lobe grew stronger when impulses were controlled. These findings could eventually help to help diagnose and treat impulse behavior problems such as addiction, obsessive compulsive disorder and ADHD.

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·September 22, 2010·3 min read

Can Career Choices Influence Dementia?

Correlating data from 588 patients diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD), researchers found that subjects with professions which related highly for verbal skills had greater tissue loss on the right hand side of the brain. By contrast, those whose professions required less aptitude for verbal skills, for example flight engineers, had more tissue damage to the left hand side of the brain.

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·September 27, 2010·3 min read

Changing Right Handers To Left Handers

Neuroscientists at UC Berkeley have discovered that stimulation of a certain area of the brain can cause a change in which hand a person favors to perform a task. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation on right handed test subjects, researchers discovered that stimulating the posterior parietal cortex on the left side caused an increase in the use of the left hand. Researchers suggested this finding might be useful in discovering methods to help patients overcome learned limb disuse.

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·September 29, 2010·3 min read

First Direct Evidence That ADHD is a Genetic Disorder Found

Neuroscience researchers from Cardiff University have found the first direct evidence that ADHD is a genetic disorder.

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·September 30, 2010·2 min read

Breast Cancer Patients’ Brain Tissue Altered by Chemotherapy

Brain imaging studies of women with breast cancer before and after chemotherapy treatments show grey matter is being affected during the chemotherapy treatments. Brain areas believed to be critical for multi-tasking, memory and other cognitive functions were seen to change during the chemotherapy.

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·October 4, 2010·2 min read

Rett Syndrome Breath Arrest Treatment Discovered

University of Bristol researchers have prevented a major breathing complication of Rett syndrome. Patients with Rett syndrome sometimes experience abnormal breathing, breath holding and other breathing problems that can lead to asphyxiation, brain damage and even be fatal. This new research show that by increasing aminobutyric acid and stimulating specific serotonin receptors in the brain, life threatening symptoms of breath arrests were abolished.

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·October 13, 2010·2 min read

Close Friends Light Up Your Medial Prefrontal Cortex Brain Region

The title of this article may not catch on as a song lyric, but new neurobiology research shows close friends can cause more of a response in brain regions such as the medial prefrontal cortex than strangers can.

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·October 21, 2010·4 min read

Bioengineering First: Implant to Treat Vertigo from Meniere’s Disease, Balance Disorders

The first implant to treat vertigo experienced during attacks related to Meniere’s Disease and similar balance disorders will be implanted...

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·October 25, 2010·5 min read

Computational Neuroscience Suggests Potassium Channels More Involved in MS Than Thought

Computational models of axonal properties suggest that problems associated with MS, and other demyelinating diseases, may be due more to an imbalance between sodium channels and potassium channels that play a role in the leak current in neuronal membranes, than to the currently targeted sodium channels of most MS drugs.

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·October 26, 2010·3 min read

Blind People Process Touch Faster

Recent visual neuroscience research provides evidence that blind people process the sense of touch faster than people with normal vision. The research also found that each blind person's tactile perception time was nearly equal to their average speed of their finger moving from one Braille character to the next.

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·December 9, 2010·5 min read

Beta-amyloid Removal Problems May Underlie Alzheimer’s Disease

The removal of beta-amyloid is not efficient in late-onset Alzheimer's disease sufferers. These new findings could help produce better early diagnostic tests and therapies for Alzheimer's disease and related research.

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·December 10, 2010·5 min read

World’s First Basic Research Institute for Childhood Neurological Diseases Opens

The world's first basic research institute for childhood neurological diseases opened in Houston, Texas and is part of the Texas Children's Hospital. Some of the research the new research insitute will focus on includes childhood neurological diseases such as autism, epilepsy, Rett syndrome, cerebral palsy, ataxias and Batten disease. More details about the new institute are provided in the press release below.

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Neurology

Area Of Brain Responsible For Controlling Impulses Discovered

Can Career Choices Influence Dementia?

Changing Right Handers To Left Handers

First Direct Evidence That ADHD is a Genetic Disorder Found

Breast Cancer Patients’ Brain Tissue Altered by Chemotherapy

Rett Syndrome Breath Arrest Treatment Discovered

Close Friends Light Up Your Medial Prefrontal Cortex Brain Region

Bioengineering First: Implant to Treat Vertigo from Meniere’s Disease, Balance Disorders

Computational Neuroscience Suggests Potassium Channels More Involved in MS Than Thought

Blind People Process Touch Faster

Beta-amyloid Removal Problems May Underlie Alzheimer’s Disease

World’s First Basic Research Institute for Childhood Neurological Diseases Opens

Teenage Cannabis Use Linked to 52% Higher Schizophrenia Risk

Physical Activity Rewires the Traumatized Brain

Gene Linking Schizophrenia to Decision-Making Found

Positive Childhood Experiences and Special Health Care Needs

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