Woman hurt after slipping on ice
Rutland & Stamford Mercury Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:07 AM PST
A TRADER was treated in hospital for a brain bleed after slipping on an ungritted town centre square in last week's bad weather. (01/01/2010) |
Anxious Brains May Be Scrambling Fear Messages
Psych Central Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:07 AM PST
More and more researchers are turning to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to help answer research questions about what mental illness looks like in the brain. Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to new research. [...] |
7. Murder charges at day-care center
Lake County News-Sun Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:05 AM PST
2009 was just two weeks old when a tragedy in Lincolnshire grabbed headlines.A 16-month-old toddler, Benjamin Kingan, died Jan. 14 after a worker at the Minee Subee day-care center in Lincolnshire allegedly beat the toddler and threw him to the ground, causing a skull fracture and brain bleeding. Officials described a heart-wrenching scene in which Benjamin crawled to his favorite blanket ... |
Girl makes miracle recovery from brain injury
Daily Telegraph Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:46 AM PST
A teenage girl with a brain injury so severe that doctors asked her parents if they would consider switching off her life support machine has made a surprise recovery. |
Scientists Discover A Controller Of Brain Circuitry
Medical News Today Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:23 AM PST
By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal's brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular cues to control the complex design of its circuits. Details of the observation in lab mice, published Dec... |
Secrets Of The Brain: Researchers Decipher Parts Of The Neuronal Code
Medical News Today Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:23 AM PST
The human brain works at a far higher level of complexity than previously thought. What has been given little attention up to now in the information processing of neuronal circuits has been the time factor. "Liquid computing" a new theory about how these complex networks of nerve cells actually work from computer scientists at Graz University of Technology has just passed its first test... |
Decade in sport: Head games
National Post Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:51 AM PST
Sean Fitz-Gerald: The suicide of a 44-year-old former NFL player found to have brain tissue equivalent to an 85-year-old man helped confirm a long-held suspicion: concussions can have dire long-term consequences |
Preparing For Successful Aging
Medical News Today Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:23 AM PST
It's never too early or too late to start working toward the goal of improving brain health. So perhaps the New Year is the perfect time to consider how one achieves a long and satisfying life. A book recently publishing by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., called Successful Cognitive and Emotional Aging may be just the tool to help find some answers to the age-old question. Its focus is on ... |
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