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Study finds brain estrogen as key to brain protection when oxygen is low
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Augusta [Georgia], September 1 (ANI): When the brain is not getting enough oxygen, neurons produce estrogen in both males and females, which hyperactivates another brain cell type called astrocytes to step up their usual support and protect brain function.
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COVID-19 not the main factor for his death, it was brain operation: Pranab
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): The coronavirus was not the main factor for India's former President Pranab Mukherjee's demise rather it was the brain operation, his son Abhijit Mukherjee clarified on Tuesday.
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Scientists show how brain flexibility emerges in infants
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
North Carolina [US], Sept 1 (ANI): To shed light on the development of cognitive flexibility during early infancy, researchers conducted a brain imaging study in infants to examine the emergence of neural flexibility, which refers to the frequency with which a brain region changes its role (
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Brain protein linked to seizures, abnormal social behaviours, finds study
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], Sept 1 (ANI): A team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside has found a new mechanism responsible for the abnormal development of neuronal connections in the mouse brain that leads to seizures and abnormal social behaviours.
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Former President Pranab Mukherjee passes away
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 31 (ANI): Former President Pranab Mukherjee passed away on Monday at the Army Hospital (Research and Referral) Hospital where he was admitted earlier this month and had undergone surgery for removal of a clot in his brain.
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Autistic people's nerve cells differ before birth, study finds
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [USA], Aug 29 (ANI): Brain cells of autistic people develop differently as compared to those of other individuals, according to a recent study.
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Researchers find potential to make brain cancers in children respond bette
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], Aug 28 (ANI): Brain cancer in children is always a devastating diagnosis, but researchers may have found a way to have the most serious types of pediatric brain cancer respond better to therapies.
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Why 'one day at a time' works for recovering alcoholics
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 28 (ANI): A new brain imaging study by Yale researchers shows why the approach of 'One day at a time' for recovering alcoholics, for whom each day without a drink builds the strength to go on to the next, works.
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Organ donation and the COVID pandemic
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India] Aug 25 (ANI/Mediawire): August 13 is observed as "organ donation day". The reason for observing this day is to spread awareness and eliminate myths and fears regarding organ donation. Organ donation is aptly termed "the gift of life".
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Researchers provide insights into new form of dementia
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Aug 24 (ANI): Working with their colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers at the University of Kentucky have found that they can differentiate between subtypes of dementia inducing brain disease.
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Autistic people's nerve cells differ before birth
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [USA], Aug 24 (ANI): A new study shows that in human brain cells, the atypical development starts at the very earliest stages of brain organization, at the level of individual brain cells.
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Autism-cholesterol link revealed in new study
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 22 (ANI): Researchers in a new study have identified a subtype of autism arising from a cluster of genes that regulate cholesterol metabolism and brain development.
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