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More players pledge to donate brain after death Park Hills Daily Journal Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:41 AM PST BOSTON (AP) â€" Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Haynes and current Chicago Bears linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer are among more than a dozen NFL players who have pledged to donate their brain and spinal cord tissue for concussion research. Why the mirror lies: In people with body dysmorphic disorder, distorted self-image could be result of brain's abnormal ... Science Daily Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:26 AM PST Researchers have determined that the brains of people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a psychiatric condition that causes them, wrongly, to believe they appear disfigured and ugly, have abnormalities in processing visual input when it comes to examining their own face. Further, they found that the same systems of the brain are overactive in BDD and in obsessive-compulsive disorder ... Reduced brain gray matter concentration found in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea Science Daily Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:25 AM PST In a study of 36 newly diagnosed men with severe obstructive sleep apnea and 31 healthy controls, significant gray matter concentration deficits were found in multiple brain areas of men with OSA, including limbic structures, prefrontal cortices and the cerebellum. These changes in brain structure may be related to problems such as memory impairment and executive dysfunction that are observed in ... US military may ‘shock and awe’ omega-3 market Nutraingredients.com Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:59 AM PST The department is considering either supplementing or fortifying the rations of all active service personnel in order to enhance stress resilience and general wellness leading to improved military performance, to cut hospital bills and to speed recovery from traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Ex-chair of NFL brain panel denies link to disease Park Hills Daily Journal Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:54 AM PST DETROIT (AP) â€" Former NFL player Kyle Turley told members of Congress on Monday that while he still had a severe headache, the St. Louis Rams cleared him for full-contact drills four days after a concussion seven years ago. Small Molecules Give EMBL Scientists Bigger Picture Of Animal Evolution Medical News Today Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:27 AM PST The last ancestor we shared with worms, which roamed the seas around 600 million years ago, may already have had a sophisticated brain that released hormones into the blood and was connected to various sensory organs. The evidence comes not from a newly found fossil but from the study of microRNAs - small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression - in animals alive today... Exciting New Activities May Help Prevent Relapse In Cocaine Addiction Medical News Today Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:25 AM PST The brain's innate interest in the new and different may help trump the power of addictive drugs, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. In controlled experiments, novelty drew cocaine-treated rats away from the place they got cocaine. Novelty could help break the vicious cycle of treatment and relapse, especially for the many addicts with novelty-craving ... PENN Medicine News Image: Toxic Form of ELK-1 in Plaque of Alzheimer's Brain Tissue University of Pennsylvania Health System Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:23 AM PST The toxic form of Elk-1 is present in plaque found in brain tissue from an Alzheimer disease patient (red asterisk). A neuronal process of a dying neuron is denoted by the red arrow. Penn Medicine News: Three Brain Diseases Linked by Toxic Form of Same Neural Protein University of Pennsylvania Health System Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:23 AM PST “These results suggest a molecular link between the presence of inclusions and neuronal loss that is shared across a spectrum of neurodegenerative disease,” notes senior author, James Eberwine, PhD , co-director of the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Pharmacology. Vet clinic opens at Frankton Otago Daily Times Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:17 AM PST Every pet ailment, from sneezing and coughing to broken legs and brain tumours, will be treated at a new veterinary clinic which opened in Frankton this week. read more

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