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Original Source: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to Study Brain Signaling
This study uses positron emission tomography (PET) to examine brain function and signaling involving phospholipids, and to see how signaling is related to blood flow. Much of the brain is composed of fatty molecules called phospholipids. These molecules are involved in the way brain cells signal each other to direct brain function. Brain disease may change phospholipids and disturb brain structure and signaling. Studies of brain phospholipid composition and metabolism may help...
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According to the American Brain Tumor Association, just over 24,000 patients will be diagnosed with a primary malignant brain tumour during 2012 in the US alone. Some 80% of primary malignant brain...
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Expert discusses how BRAIN Initiative will affect neuroscience
Mapping the human brain, with its billions of neurons, is one of science's most elusive projects. But a new federal program—the $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnolo...
The brain race: Can giant computers map the mind?
In the past month, we have seen two major announcements of huge projects to map the brain – the European Human Brain Project (HBP) and the Obama Brain Activity Map (BAM).
The BRAIN Initiative: BAM or BUST?
In his State of the Union this year , President Obama referred to increasing support for science and technology, and mentioned the "Brain Activity Map". Of course neuroscientists were instantly atwit...
Richmond, VA (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 BrainSpade.com, a new consumer brain health application from The Rowing Team, LLC, will launch in mid-January 2013. After months of intense development and...
Your Brain Calls in Backup to Find Lost Things
When you lose something important---a child, your wallet, the keys---your brain kicks into overdrive to find the missing object. But that's not just a matter of extra concentration. Researchers have f...
Using New Analytical Tools, Scientists Report 'New Beginning' In Split-Brain Research
UC Santa Barbara has reported an important discovery in the interdisciplinary study of split-brain research. The findings uncover dynamic changes in brain coordination patterns between left and right...
Language Skills At 1 Year Predicted By Brain Structure In Infancy
Using a brain-imaging technique that examines the entire infant brain, researchers have found that the anatomy of certain brain areas - the hippocampus and cerebellum - can predict children's language...
Pediatric brain tumors traced to brain stem cells
Stem cells that come from a specific part of the developing brain help fuel the growth of brain tumors caused by an inherited condition, researchers report.
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Brain Pericytes: Emerging Concepts and Functional Roles in Brain Homeostasis.
Brain pericytes are an important constituent of neurovascular unit. They encircle endothelial cells and contribute to the maturation and stabilization of the capillaries in the brain. Recent studies h...
Congenital Heart Disease Affects Cerebral Size but Not Brain Growth.
Infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) have delayed brain maturation and alterations in brain volume. Brain metrics is a simple measurement technique that can be used to evaluate brain growth. Th...
Brain temperature: What do we know?
This review article presents a summary of recent efforts to understand brain temperature and its regulation under different conditions. Brain temperature has a crucial influence on brain processes. It...
The effects of vitamin D on brain development and adult brain function.
A role for vitamin D in brain development and function has been gaining support over the last decade. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that this vitamin is actually a neuroactive steroid that acts o...
