LearningRx1 brain | http://www.learningrx.org - Part 29

High-flying military pilots found to have brain lesions

Sep 28, 2013 by

Military aviators who fly at particularly high altitudes have significantly more white matter hyperintensities. Compared to control subjects, the pilots had nearly a fourfold rise in the volume of lesions (375%) and a threefold rise in the number of...

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Anorexia might be linked to brain size

Sep 27, 2013 by

New research indicates that the risk of developing anorexia may be tied to the size of your brain. A bigger brain may be the reason that anorexics can starve themselves. Females with anorexia had larger left orbitofrontal, right insular...

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Suprising discovery about inhibitory neurons during learning

Sep 23, 2013 by

Now that technology allows neuroscientists to see what inhibitory neurons are up to during learning, researchers have discovered something surprising: During heightened periods of learning, inhibitory neurons fires about HALF AS OFTEN as expected. Apparently, the brain turns off...

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Most stroke patients may have undiagnosed attention disorders...

Sep 22, 2013 by

Researchers in the UK found that the majority of people who have suffered a stroke had attention deficits that had not been diagnosed. The type of attention that was affected was linked to the part of the brain affected...

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Discovery of major cause of age-related memory loss

Sep 21, 2013 by

According to researchers from Columbia University Medical Center, a protein deficiency in the brain is behind much of age-related memory loss. In addition, the team says the discovery has strong causal evidence that Alzheimer’s and age-related memory loss are...

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Copper intake may cause Alzheimer’s

Sep 20, 2013 by

Our intake of copper may be causing Alzheimer’s. New research suggests that copper reduces our ability to clear away toxic proteins in our brain, and encourages “clumping” of those toxic proteins....

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