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New brain scans helping doctors diagnose patients KING5 Seattle Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:58 PM PDT New science is giving psychiatrists a new way to get into the heads of their patients. You don’t have to be old to get dementia The Malaysian Insider Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:45 PM PDT SINGAPORE, July 3 â€" Working that brain â€" by engaging in debate or number games â€" may protect you from the severe loss of mental ability associated with dementia. Being young does not. A study by a neurologist in Singapore is challenging the notion that dementia is an affliction that hits only those above 65: About half the patients being treated for dementia at the National Neuroscience ... Brain tumour research funding plea Channel 4 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:26 PM PDT Brain tumour research is significantly under-funded, a cancer charity has said. Brain Tumour Research described brain tumours as the "forgotten cancer" - despite an estimated 16,000 people in the UK being diagnosed with some form of the disease each year. Cerebrovascular mental stress reactivity is impaired in hypertension News-Medical-Net Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:13 PM PDT Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex was absent in people with high blood pressure. Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth News-Medical-Net Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:12 PM PDT New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine provides for the first time a solid scientific answer for the long-standing question of whether there is an association between preterm birth and brain malformations. Brain tumours 'forgotten cancer' BBC News Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:01 PM PDT More funding needs to be ploughed into research into the "forgotten cancer" of brain tumours, campaigners say. Appeal for funds to fight curse of brain tumours Independent Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:44 PM PDT Brain tumours have become the biggest cause of death among young cancer patients, but the disease receives only a small fraction of the funding spent on researching other forms of cancer. All-Stars provide assist Daily Pilot Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:25 PM PDT NEWPORT BEACH â€" Orange County’s finest seniors gathered on Newport Harbor High’s volleyball court Tuesday to raise money for a 5-year-old battling brain cancer. ‘Death’ rule eased for donors The West Australian Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:55 PM PDT WA organ donors will no longer have to be declared brain dead before their tissue is harvested for transplant if doctors believe there is no chance the patient will survive once life-support is switch Brookfield girl battling brain tumor running in Relay Brookfield Suburban Life Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:14 PM PDT Ashley Whigam is only six years old, but she will walk for twice her age â€"12 hours â€" as part of Brookfield’s Relay for Life.

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