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How lack of sleep can harm brain, finds study
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Lack of sleep not only makes you feel horrible, but study has proven that it harms your brain as well. Long-term sleep deprivation can significantly raise the chance of developing neurological illnesses like Alzheimer's. Researchers are trying to figure out how lack of sleep results in this
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Study finds how mutant protein can invade brain
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In many neurodegenerative diseases, aberrant proteins build up and spread throughout the brain over time. But aggregation or propagation—which comes first? Japanese researchers offer some fresh perspectives on the mechanism underlying Parkinson's illness. In a study published recently in C
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Study reveals how sleep deprivation can harm brain
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Studies indicate that lack of sleep leads to neurological damage in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in learning and memory
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Study finds how microdevices offer new way to treat brain cancer
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The new device, the size and shape of a grain of rice, can run dozens of trials at once to evaluate the impact of novel medicines on some of the most difficult-to-treat brain malignancies.
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Concussions early in life linked to cognitive decline later: Study
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A study of twins found that having a concussion early in life is associated with lower scores on tests of thinking and memory abilities decades later, as well as a faster drop in those scores than twins who did not have a concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Bengaluru School Girl's Innovative Prototype Can Be a Blessing for Cancer
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 6: Is Innovation only limited to IIT, NIT, or IISc students? Well, think again. Gone are the days when innovation was confined to professional institutions. Meet Saanvi, a class 8 student from Bengaluru, who is grabbing attention with her remarkable i
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Study finds how gene therapy shows promising early results for brain tumor
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A recent study from the University of Michigan Department of Neurosurgery and Rogel Cancer Centre demonstrates encouraging preliminary findings that a therapy combining cell-killing and immune-stimulating drugs is safe and effective in extending survival for patients with gliomas, a particu
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Researchers shed light on why certain brain tumors don’t respond to immuno
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A study performed by UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre researchers gave new light on why tumours that have spread to the brain from other parts of the body react to immunotherapy whereas glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, does not.
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Increasing mathematical learning may require stimulating brain: Study
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
According to a study electrical noise stimulation can assist students who struggle with mathematics learn the subject more effectively.
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Study shows exciting the brain might be key to boosting maths learning
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
According to a new study from the Universities of Surrey and Oxford, Loughborough University, and Radboud University in the Netherlands, activating a brain region with electrical noise stimulation may improve mathematical learning in those who struggle with the subject.
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Study reveals importance of controlling traditional cardiovascular risk fa
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
In elderly people, cardiovascular disease and dementia frequently coexist. Nonetheless, few long-term studies have been conducted to investigate how atherosclerosis and its related risk factors affect brain health beginning in middle age.
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T-cells enter brain, induce respiratory discomfort in immunocompromised pa
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
When an immunocompromised person's system starts to heal and create more white blood cells, it's usually a healthy sign - unless they acquire a potentially fatal inflammatory condition. According to new research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the pulmonary distress commonl
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