Mental, emotional and behavioral problems are observed on a high growth rate among the young Americans like other usual minor injuries and it costs the nation about $247 billion per annum.
An alarming report has been issued by the national Research Council and Institute of Medicine that shown about 14 to 20 percent youngsters suffering from [...]

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New findings suggest that the brains of older women perceive upsetting images in different way than young women. It’s a clear indication that the human brain, with the passage of time, learn to handle the bitter experiences of life.
“Older adults are able to show a less reaction to negative emotions,” said Roberto Cabeza, psychologist of [...]

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A new study finds that women who take valproate (epilepsy drug) during pregnancy may give birth to babies with higher risk of autism.
This British study has been published in the journal Neurology 2nd Dec. issue and it adds something to those previous studies which show that many anti-epilepsy drugs including valproate can cause birth defects [...]

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Symptoms of dementia are different in different patients as they depend on the cause and affected area of the patient’s brain. The earliest and most noticeable symptom is memory loss usually. Some other key symptoms of dementia are as follow:

Not be able to recognize familiar places and people
To have difficulty in finding the right words [...]

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The excessive alcohol drinking, shrinks’ brain, a new study has found.
“The take-home message is that, if you drink a lot, you’re going to hurt your brain. This is something we knew, but this is a huge study that quantifies that.” said Rajesh Miranda, an associate professor of Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Brain degenerates naturally [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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