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Discovery Of Mechanism That Processes 'THC' Type Brain Compound May Lead To New Medicines For Pain, Addiction Science Daily Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:15 AM PDT Scientists have discovered a new molecular mechanism for the processing of endocannabinoids, brain compounds similar to THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and essential in physiological processes such as pain, appetite, and memory. Ballesteros speaks publicly about cancer fight Lebanon Daily News Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:13 AM PDT MADRIDâ€"An emotional Seve Ballesteros has spoken publicly for the first time about his fight against a cancerous brain tumor. Kennedy describes his health care at HHS hearing 49 ABC News Topeka Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:10 AM PDT Senator Edward M. Kennedy, battling brain cancer, is speaking of his own health care as he opens a hearing on the nomination of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services secretary. SECOND OPINION: Leave the doctoring to trained professionals The MetroWest Daily News Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:06 AM PDT SECOND OPINION A malady that affects most everybody but receives very little attention is what I call the Self Diagnosis Anxiety Syndrome or SDAS. An example of SDAS is when you diagnose the headache that you have as a brain tumor.   ReMIND.org, A Bob Woodruff Foundation Initiative, Awards Second $100,000 to Jericho Project for At-Risk and Homeless ... PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:57 AM PDT ReMIND.org, a Bob Woodruff Foundation initiative, has awarded its second $100,000 grant to the Jericho Project for use in helping veterans from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who sustained Traumatic Brain Injury and/or Post Traumatic Stress. Seve: Battle for life is my sixth major CNN Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:55 AM PDT Spanish golf legend Seve Ballesteros says that fighting a brain tumor is the biggest battle of his life and in golfing terms like winning a sixth major title. Software to help schools check for concussions Daily Record Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:32 AM PDT MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) -- Twenty-one schools in north Jersey could get software to help diagnose whether student athletes have concussions. Mountainside Health Foundation and the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey will spend $40,000 to fund the program. House Call for Gorilla Scientific American Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:26 AM PDT [The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] How do you do a brain scan on a gorilla. Yeah, yeah, very carefully, right. He sleeps anywhere he wants to, too. But seriously, trying to do an MRI on a gorilla presents certain logistical problems. Back in the 1980s, when a gorilla at the Bronx Zoo needed to be scanned, zoo staff working with pathologists at Albert Einstein College of ... West Nile virus studies show how star-shaped brain cells cope with infection PhysOrg Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:21 AM PDT A new study published as the cover article for the April 2009 issue of The FASEB Journal promises to give physicians new ways to reduce deadly responses to viral infections of the brain and spinal cord. In the report, scientists from Columbia University, NY, detail for the first time the chemical processes that star-shaped nerve cells, called astrocytes, use to handle invading viruses and to ... CSHL neuroscientists propose project to comprehensively map mammalian brain circuits EurekAlert! Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:21 AM PDT ( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) In a paper that appears in the March issue of PLoS Computational Biology, thirty-seven scientists from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and other major research institutions in the U.S. and Europe argue strongly in favor of committing resources to prepare a comprehensive map of neural circuits in the mammalian brain. Along with charting the circuitry underlying ...

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