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Calcium Channel Blockers are also helpful in reducing multiple risks involved in the Parkinson’s disease. The calcium Channel blockers are in fact a group of specific drugs that people generally take for treating and controlling high blood pressure. This group of drugs is very popular among the patients of high blood pressure across the world.

A recent research study published in the February issue of the journal “Neurology” established this finding with sufficient evidences based on clinical trials.

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“Cytomegalovirus”, a typical human virus contains a typical presence of a protein that plays a vital role in turning the human brain tumors more aggressive and spreading with fast pace.

Researchers from the ‘California pacific Medical Center research Institute’ conducted a study that established these findings with the help of sufficient evidences. These research findings have also been published in the journal “Cancer Research”.

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Scientists of the ‘Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT have been successful in creating a mechanism to record the effects of blocking and unblocking the single neural circuit in a living animal for the first time.

Susumu Tonegawa, Professor of Biology and Neurosciences devised this revolutionary mechanism to observe the effects of bypassing one of the major memory-forming circuits in the brain and its impacts on the learning and memory capacities in mice. Details of this research have been published in this week’s online edition of the journal “Science”.

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Being awake for long hours increases the inability of human brain to absorb any more and a sound sleep of many hours will refresh the ability further. Every one of us encounters this experience many times during life. But it is for the first time that systematic scientific explanation of this phenomenon has been made available by the researchers at the ‘University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’.

This new research supports the basic principle that establishes a key role of sleep in the brain’s ability of changing the responses according to the environment. Scientists call this ability as the “plasticity” of the brain. This plasticity of the brain is at the heart of human learning.
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Schizophrenia patients appear to have “normal” responses to emotional stimuli. Recent researches have now established that deficits in emotional functioning associated with the ‘Schizophrenic disorder’ may involve the integration of emotion and cognition for adaptive functioning.

It is now an established fact that one of the major causes of persistent functional disability in schizophrenia is emotional functioning disturbance. But it is not clear which specific aspects of emotional functioning are impaired in patients with the condition.

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Hypertension and High Blood Pressure are two diseases that reduce blood flow in the brains of the adults who are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Hypertension conditions make the blood circulate through arteries with extreme thrust. Though hypertension is not a direct cause of Alzheimer’s disease but it hits on the brain and thus enhances the vulnerability to several effects of the disease.

These are the conclusive findings of a recent study carried out at the “University of Pitsbugh”.These findings were also presented recently at the annual meeting of the” Radiological Society of North America(RSNA)”.There have been several researches in recent past and there are enough evidences available that connect the cardiovascular health with the brain health.

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Figuring out many things, all at a time comes naturally to many of us. But have you ever wondered how all this is done? How the individuality of each thought is maintained and not jumbled up into thoughts that make no sense? That is the greatness of the human brain. With its many entangled neuron in the order of millions and trillions, the human brain has defeated even the super-computers in their speed of operation.

Understanding the human brain is very difficult. How it functions so meticulously still remains a question to many. Previously researchers were of the opinion that a large number of neurons had to be activated so that the human being could feel or even perceive a stimulus. But this insight into the human brain turns out to be wrong. Brain cells are even more powerful than you think.

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