Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Can a better understanding of the science of learning help us educate our students? Researchers at the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), a National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center, think so. To address the issue the TDLC is hosting a forum titled, "Brains R Us: The Science of ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Micrus Endovascular Corporation (Nasdaq: MEND) announced that management will make presentations at four investment conferences in March:
- Robert Stern, Micrus President and COO, will present at the Rodman & Renshaw "Straight to the Heart" one-day, one-on-one meeting conference on Tuesday, March 4. The conference will be held at the Boston ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
After the surgical removal of a malignant tumor, the chance that cancer will re-appear in a different location of the body remains high. But new research from Tel Aviv University, in a bold new field called Psychoneuroimmunology, may prevent those cancer cells from taking root again - and the key ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have found that diltiazem, a drug used in the treatment of high blood pressure, reduces cocaine cravings in a rat model. These findings will appear in the March issue of the leading medical journal Nature Neuroscience.
Previous work showed that ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Children who under-achieve at school may just have poor working memory rather than low intelligence according to researchers who have produced the world's first tool to assess memory capacity in the classroom.
The researchers from Durham University, who surveyed over three thousand children, found that ten per cent of school children ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
According to an article published in the April edition of The Lancet Neurology, donepezil may improve the executive function of patients who suffer from the CADASIL form of vascular dementia. However, researcher Martin Dichgans of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany and colleagues found that donepezil did not improve patients' cognitive ...
Posted in Alzheimers / Dementia | No Comments »
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
According to an article published in The Lacnet Neurology, phase III clinical trials of alteplase should now begin. Alteplase is the only licensed therapy for acute ischaemic stroke and is found to have positive effects for some patients, even if administered after the usual 3-hour treatment window.
Acute ischaemic stroke is ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
A better understanding of how memory works is emerging from a newfound ability to link a learning experience in a mouse to consequent changes in the inner workings of its neurons. Researchers, supported in part by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), have developed a ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The focus of two recent Nobel prizes, a species of roundworm has made possible another advance in the understanding of how cells talk to one another, according to a study published online Feb. 21 in the journal Current Biology.
In 2002, researchers won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in ...
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