If you’re anything like me, you have a running list of smallish tasks piling up in your head at all times: make an appointment for your annual physical, return that shirt you ordered online, drop off that bag of clothes to donate. Many of them don’t actually take much time […]
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Neuroscientists Use Rabies to Explore the Brain
Scientific American October 2018 Using engineered forms of the rabies virus, neuroscientists can map brain circuits with unprecedented precision Late one moonlit night, three fictional revelers on an English moor were transfixed by a horrific sight: “a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than […]
New Insights Into How COVID-19 Damages the Brain | Health News
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay) WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — New research offers a novel explanation for the long-term brain problems many COVID-19 patients experience. Many coronavirus patients report headaches and “brain fog” for weeks or months after they recover from respiratory symptoms. It’s been believed that […]
Harvard Health’s New Cognitive Fitness Course Outlines a 6-Step Plan for Protecting Brain Health
This time of the year, people are scrubbing their refrigerators, banishing sugary snacks from their pantries, and renewing their commitment to regular exercise. It’s the season (for better or for worse) where people pay close attention to their physical health…but what about our minds? If you plan on living into […]
Kidney Injury in Diabetic Ketoacidosis Linked to Brain Injury
Newswise — Philadelphia, December 4, 2020 – Researchers from a consortium of hospitals including Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified factors that make children with diabetic ketoacidosis more likely to experience acute kidney injury. Analyzing data from a large, multicenter clinical trial, the researchers also found that children who […]
‘How I’m beating long Covid brain fog’
Helen Kirwan Taylor in an oxygen chamber, a treatment originally devised for scuba divers suffering from decompression sickness – Andrew Crowley/The Telegraph The other day I was making myself a cup of tea, except I had put the teabag in a wine glass. If there is one symptom that all […]
A Brain Infection Made Me Forget Nearly Everything. Here’s How I Became Myself Again.
I’ve forgotten many things in my life: my keys, the answers to test questions, my friend’s birthday. I never imagined I could forget how to walk. But that’s exactly what happened when I was 27 and suddenly got sick with brain inflammation. The day my legs stopped working, I had […]
Google releases predictions of popular holiday gifts from Apple iPhone, PlayStation 5 to Fat Brain Simpl Dimpl
TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks That Tick all the Boxes It’s been said that gridlock is a feature, not a bug, of the US Constitution, and we may be about to find that out. The election results have left some questions to be resolved, but a few things are coming […]
Brit mum left brain damaged and fighting for life after botched nose job in Turkey as family hold bedside vigil
A BRITISH mum and teacher is fighting for her life in a Turkish ICU after going into cardiac arrest during nose job surgery. Michelle Williams, 46, has been left with a brain injury and breathing through a tracheostomy tube in her throat after the ‘nightmare’ op. 6 Primary school teacher […]
Small brain device proves big game changer for severely paralysed patients
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A tiny device the size of a small paperclip has been shown to help patients with upper limb paralysis to text, email and even shop online in the first human trial. The device, Stentrode, has been implanted successfully in two patients, who both suffer from severe […]
Parasites Thrive in Lizard Embryos’ Brain
When Nathalie Feiner spotted a tiny nematode worm wriggling in an embryonic lizard’s brain from the French Pyrenees, she thought it was a freak accident. She was dissecting hundreds of common wall lizard embryos for a study and had never encountered this invader before—but soon she started finding them in […]
Wanna know if your brain is as fit as it can be? CogniFit Brain Training can tell you.
Your brain really is every bit the supercomputer that you think it is. Scientists found that over the course of your life, your modest human brain will hold up to 1 quadrillion pieces of information. You also have an average of 70,000 thoughts per day. Considering that, it’s really no […]
Brain Booster Supplements May Have Unapproved Drugs
Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Dietary supplements marketed as brain boosters may contain high doses of pharmaceutical drugs that aren’t approved for use in the U.S., according to a study published Sept. 23 in the journal Neurology Clinical Practice. The team of researchers behind the […]
How the Coronavirus Attacks the Brain
An image provided by Ross W. Paterson, Rachel L. Brown, et al./Brain, Oxford University Press, brain scans of coronavirus patients from a study published in July. (Ross W. Paterson, Rachel L. Brown, et al./Brain, Oxford University Press via The New York Times) The coronavirus targets the lungs foremost, but also […]
Week Five of the Summer Fitness Plan for midlifers: improve your brain age
Jo Gray and Luke Gray – Christopher Pledger /The Telegraph For previous weeks, click here. Week Six will be published on Monday Aug 31 This week’s exercise By Luke Gray We have created a six-week movement plan for midlifers and it works both for beginner and experienced exercisers. This week, […]
The loneliness of social isolation can affect your brain and raise dementia risk in older adults
In healthy older people, loneliness has a pattern of stress response similar to that of people who are under chronic stress. Justin Paget via Getty Images Physical pain is unpleasant, yet it’s vital for survival because it’s a warning that your body is in danger. It tells you to take […]
Medicare coverage for Alzheimer brain scans in question
A big study to help Medicare officials decide whether to start covering brain scans to check for Alzheimer’s disease missed its goals for curbing health care costs, calling into question whether the pricey tests are worth it. The results announced Thursday are from a $100 million study of more than […]
Prince Joachim of Denmark Expected to Make Full Recovery from Emergency Brain Surgery
Prince Joachim of Denmark is on the road to recovery following emergency surgery for a blood clot on his brain. The 51-year-old royal – who was treated at the University Hospital of Toulouse in France on Saturday – is “expected to be moved from the intensive care unit soon,” the […]
After an online push, Folsom football player gets chance to rehab from brain injury
Since May 12, former Folsom football player Dylan Richard has been in a hospital after suffering a traumatic brain injury while skateboarding in El Dorado Hills. Richard spent the first three weeks at UC Davis Medical Center and the last six at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. On Wednesday morning, Richard […]