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Protein Critical To Insulating Body's Wiring Could Also Become Treatment Target redOrbit Tue, 19 May 2009 14:06 PM PDT A new protein identified as critical to insulating the wiring that connects the brain and body could one day be a treatment target for divergent diseases, from rare ones that lower the pain threshold to cancer, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.They report this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition that in the peripheral nervous system that ... A new path for cocaine addiction research News-Medical-Net Tue, 19 May 2009 13:52 PM PDT Cocaine is one of the oldest drugs known to humans, and its abuse has become widespread since the end of the 19th century. At the same time, we know rather little about its effects on the human brain or the mechanisms that lead to cocaine addiction. Reid: Kennedy cancer in remission WABC-TV New York Tue, 19 May 2009 13:45 PM PDT Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain cancer is in remission according to Sen. Harry Reid. Protein neuregulin 1 critical to insulating the body's wiring could also become treatment target News-Medical-Net Tue, 19 May 2009 13:37 PM PDT A new protein identified as critical to insulating the wiring that connects the brain and body could one day be a treatment target for divergent diseases, from rare ones that lower the pain threshold to cancer, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Child's memory drives a family's cause The Colonial Tue, 19 May 2009 13:25 PM PDT May is National Brain Tumor Awareness Month, and many of us know â€" or, at least, know of â€" someone who’s been afflicted: U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy and his widely publicized battle with the disease, for example. Leonard Shlain, surgeon and author, dies UPI Tue, 19 May 2009 12:49 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (UPI) -- Leonard Shlain, a pioneer of laparoscopic surgery and author of three best-selling books, has died at 71 in San Francisco of brain cancer. Kennedy's cancer in remission The Hill Tue, 19 May 2009 12:14 PM PDT Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brain cancer is in remission and he is expected back in the Senate after the Memorial Day... Neurologist: Mistakes Made In Ex-Soldier's Tests WLKY Louisville Tue, 19 May 2009 12:12 PM PDT A clinical neurologist told jurors that theres no way to know if a former soldier facing a possible death sentence for rape and murder in Iraq has brain damage. Are Spiritual Encounters All In Your Head? NPR Tue, 19 May 2009 11:56 AM PDT Scientists suspect Moses and other religious figures were epileptic. But that doesn't mean they didn't really hear God. One researcher has created the "God helmet," which uses sensors to reproduce mystical experience by manipulating brain chemistry. Mass. Eye and Ear Performs First Auditory Brain Stem Implant Surgery in New England Newswise Tue, 19 May 2009 11:32 AM PDT Surgeons from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Mass. General Hospital will perform the first Auditory Brain Stem Implant (ABI) surgery in New England on May 20. The ABI, which can restore the sense of hearing to certain patients, has been implanted in about 500 people worldwide.

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