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20-month-old toddler becomes youngest cadaver donor, saves five lives
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 14 (ANI): The parents of a 20-month-old toddler, who had fallen off the balcony and become brain dead, decided to do a noble deed and donated her organs and in the process she became the youngest cadaver donor, giving a new lease of life to five people.
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Effects of head trauma from intimate partner violence largely unrecognised
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 14 (ANI): While there is an abundant amount of research about traumatic brain injuries in athletes and those serving in the military, the same data is scarce when it comes to concussions and head and neck injuries sustained due to intimate partner violence.
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Researchers find how the brain paralyses you while you sleep
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Tsukuba [Japan], January 14 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Tsukuba led by Professor Takeshi Sakurai have found neurons in the brain that link, narcolepsy, cataplexy, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder disorders and could provide a target for treatments.
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Disagreeing takes up a lot of brain real estate
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Washington [US], January 13 (ANI): Yale researchers have devised a way to peer into the brains of two people simultaneously while they are engaged in a discussion.
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Computer's learning ability improved by tweaking AI software to function l
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Washington [US], January 12 (ANI): Computer-based artificial intelligence can function more like human intelligence when programmed to use a much faster technique for learning new objects, say two neuroscientists who designed such a model that was designed to mirror human visual learning.
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Study on mice finds link between gut disease and brain injury in premature
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Bern [Switzerland], January 10 (ANI): While working with mice, researchers have recently identified an immune system cell that travels from the gut to the brain and attacks cells rather than protect them as it normally does.
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Psychiatric disorders lead to brain seizures: Study
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Washington [US], January 10 (ANI): A study led by investigators of Vanderbilt University Medical Center have claimed that sudden and uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain is associated with psychiatric disorders.
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Tissue Healing linked with brain cancer: Study
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Toronto [Canada], January 9 (ANI): A brain injury can be anything from trauma to infection or stroke. Regarding the same, a team of Toronto scientists have found that the healing process following a brain injury could spur tumour growth when new cells generate to replace those lost to the in
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Scientists develop tool for treating diverse tumour cells found in metasta
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Washington [US], January 9 (ANI): After defining extensive cellular heterogeneity, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center developed a tool that might be useful in stratifying patients with gastric cancer and directing them for more effective treatment strategies.
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Doctors at Delhi hospital perform emergency surgery to save mother from pr
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New Delhi [India], January 9 (ANI): Doctors at a Delhi hospital performed an emergency surgery to save a 35-year-old mother from pregnancy-induced brain haemorrhage, which is a deadly type of stroke, according to a statement by the hospital on Saturday.
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Large study finds higher burden of acute brain dysfunction for COVID-19 IC
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Tennessee [US], January 9 (ANI): Coronavirus patients admitted to intensive care in the early months of the pandemic were subject to a significantly higher burden of delirium and coma than is typically found in patients with acute respiratory failure, suggest the findings of a new study.
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Gut disease linked to brain injury in premature infants: Study
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], January 7 (ANI): Physicians have long known that necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a potentially lethal inflammatory condition that destroys a premature infant's intestinal lining, is often connected to the development of severe brain injury in those infants who survive. H
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