Roger Provencher
Concord Monitor Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:00 PM PDT
Photo:Â Roger and Priscilla Provencher play the card game UNO at their house in Concord on Thursday, July 22, 2010. Roger suffered a brain injury from a motorcycle accident almost three years ago that has affected his memory and his maturity level. Priscilla said the couple had to give up their life savings to qualify for health care for Roger, who previously worked as a pharmacist. Katie Barnes ... |
Ride raises money to fight brain tumors in children
The Kansas City Star Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:51 PM PDT
A group of bikers met at 7:30 a.m. Sunday to fight pediatric brain tumors the way they knew best: a guided ride through Johnson County. The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation holds Ride for Kids events throughout the country, and the Kansas City area event raised more than $39,000. |
Herb Alpert's sculptures, like visual jazz
Los Angeles Times Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:47 PM PDT
The famed trumpet player's abstract works are on display in Beverly Hills. Standing in a forest of sinuous, black totems spiraling into the lofty heights of the main room at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills, Herb Alpert is surrounded by an art form he has practiced for the last two decades â€" sculpture. By his account and that of those who know him, he's a man who lives on the right side of his brain ... |
Education 'helps fight dementia'
BBC News Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:34 PM PDT
People who stay in education for longer appear to be better able to compensate for the effects of dementia on the brain, a study suggests. |
MSU professor researches Parkinson's disease
The State News Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:14 PM PDT
Inspired by a documentary he watched as a college student and the patients he now treats as a physician, John Goudreau is researching a protein called Parkin that might help prevent Parkinson’s disease. There is no cure for the disease, which kills brain cells and can cause tremors, loss of movement and psychological impairment. |
Irradiating stem cell niche doubles survival in brain cancer patients
Science Daily Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:12 PM PDT
Patients with deadly glioblastomas who received high doses of radiation that hit a portion of the brain that harbors neural stem cells had double the progression-free survival time as patients who had lower doses or no radiation targeting the area, a study has found. |
The hormone IGF-1: A trigger of puberty
Science Daily Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:12 PM PDT
Puberty is triggered by pulsatile release of GnRH from specific nerve cells in the the brain. What signals tell these nerve cells to release GnRH in this manner has not been determined, although it has been suggested that hormones associated with good nutritional status (such as IGF-1) have a role. New research has now confirmed that in mice IGF-1 does indeed have a key role in coordinating the ... |
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