Some high school football players exhibit measurable brain changes after a single season of play…
Month: December 2014
Imaging shows brain connection breakdown in early Alzheimer’s disease
Changes in brain connections visible on MRI could represent an imaging biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease,…
PET/CT shows pituitary abnormalities in veterans with PTSD
Hybrid imaging with positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) in the pituitary region of…
3-D printing used to guide human face transplants
Researchers are using computed tomography and 3-D printing technology to recreate life-size models of patients’…
Researchers design model to predict effects of chemical substances on health
The analysis of drugs, natural products, and chemical substances found in the environment allows the…
Herschel observes Andromeda’s past and future stars
Recently, the infrared Herschel Space Observatory, has taken a series of beautiful high-resolution infrared images…
Understanding the Brain’s ‘Suffocation Alarm’
Panic disorder is a severe form of anxiety in which the affected individual feels an…
Bilingualism delays Alzheimer’s manifestation by more than four years
The symptoms of Alzheimer disease (AD) manifest themselves about four to five years later in…
Mass extinction led to many new species of bony fish
Today, ray-finned fish, which belong to the bony fish, are by far the most biodiverse fish group…
Causal link between antibiotics, childhood asthma dismissed
Researchers have dismissed previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of…