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Researchers discover pyramidal neurons that gauge speed, location
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): A group of researchers has made an important contribution to scientists' understanding of the brain's navigation system by identifying a subtype of these neurons that can gauge speed with great precision, more than a decade after the role of pyramidal neu
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Do you know particular brain reactions to traumatic stress are associated
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 31 (ANI): According to the largest prospective study, people who were exposed to potentially dangerous scenarios and who had lower hippocampal activity had more severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in the days and weeks that followed the event.
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Particular brain reactions to traumatic stress are associated with PTSD ri
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): Results from the largest prospective study of its kind indicate that in the initial days and weeks after experiencing trauma, individuals facing potentially threatening situations who had less activity in their hippocampus developed more severe posttraumatic s
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Early childhood enrichment may help reverse effects of lead poisoning: Stu
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], July 25 (ANI): Over 3,500 genes in the hippocampus, a region of the brain important to learning and memory, are impacted by lead poisoning, according to a new study from Thomas Jefferson University.
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Madurai Medical College's dean removed from post as students admininstered
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 1 (ANI): The dean of Madurai Medical College was removed from his post after the first-year students of a college were administered the 'Maharshi Charak Shapath' in Sanskrit.
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Tamil Nadu: Medical college students replace Hippocratic oath by Charak Sh
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 1 (ANI): The Directorate of Medical Education of the Tamil Nadu government issued a notice to the Madurai Medical College and sought an explanation against the first-year students taking the Charak oath instead of the Hippocratic oath in the reception celebr
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Mixed views of medical fraternity over Hippocratic Oath that may be replac
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 11 (ANI): India's apex medical education regulator, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has suggested that the centuries-old tradition of Greek origin, the Hippocratic oath be replaced with 'Charak Shapath' during the graduation ceremony of doctors in medical co
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Speculation is rife whether questionable ship carrying Chinese consignment
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], November 3 (ANI): A questionable ship named 'Hippo Spirit', carrying the consignment of Chinese organic fertiliser, has made several attempts to enter Sri Lankan waters despite repeated rejections by Sri Lankan authorities, a media report said.
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Singapore's XSEED Education takes a minority stake in Hippocampus Learning
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Singapore/Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], July 5 (ANI/PRNewswire): XSEED Education Pte Ltd, a Singapore based leading K-12 edtech company, announced today that it has taken a minority stake of an undisclosed size in India's Bangalore based, Hippocampus Learning Centres.
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National Doctor's Day: Here's why doctors are more than just heroes
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI/Mediawire): Being a doctor in today's day and age is an act of unabated selflessness. The Hippocratic oath has become a charter of destiny and a beckoning like no other: Doctors today are required to risk their very lives to save lives each day.
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Genomic single-cell map explains neuronal death in epilepsy
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 8 (ANI): During a recent study, an interdisciplinary collaboration lead by CSIC deciphered the genetic map of hippocampal sclerosis, a key finding for the diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy.
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Study: Blood oxygen levels could explain why memory loss is early symptom
Updated : 5 years ago IST
London [UK], May 29 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, scientists from the University of Sussex have recorded blood oxygen levels in the hippocampus and provided experimental proof for why the area, commonly referred to as 'the brain's memory centre', is vulnerable to damage and degeneration,
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