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MRI Used to Watch Brain Repair

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2008-03-31 22:48:08 by Michael in Medgadget
Harvard researchers have developed a method to monitor tissue repair within the brain using MRI and some nifty eye drops. In this report, Harvard researchers describe how they link a relatively common MRI probe (superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles) to a short DNA sequence that binds to proteins in cells responsible for brain tissue repair...
 
Tags: brain, brain repair activity, repair brain, brain tissue repair, traumatic brain injury, researchers, harvard researchers describe, blood-brain barrier, mri
 
 
 
 
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New Data Shows that Deep Brain Stimulation Useful for Severe, Treatment Resistant Depression and OCD

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2008-04-28 19:31:24 by Michael in Medgadget
The idea that deep brain stimulation could become a useful treatment for a variety of drug resistant psychiatric disorders is not new to us or to our readers. To review, you can just take a look at many flashbacks at the end of this post. Now the news is that at the upcoming annual scientific meeting of the American Association of Neurological...
 
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The Robot And Its Biological Brain

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2008-08-14 08:52:33 by Michael in Medgadget
Scientists from the University of Reading have cultured cells from rat brains and used the matrix to control a robot's movement, keeping it from hitting the wall The robot's biological brain is made up of cultured neurons which are placed onto a multi electrode array (MEA). The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes which pick up the...
 
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Robot with Rat Brain!

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2008-08-19 06:33:27 by max in zedomax.com
Download latest version of Flash to view video Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode I have once played golf with one of the executives at AMD and he was telling me that future of computer chips are in organic chips sorta similar to human brain Well, heres one of the first signs of that, a robot controlled by rat brain The robots biological...
 
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Gadget Wednesday: Do You Know How Old Your Brain Is? [Must Haves]

2007-11-21 05:00:00 by Editor in Electronics Gadget BLog - Latest Gadget Reviews - Articles - Zimbio
 
posted by modernmom After having kids, enduring years of sleep deprivation, and continuing to juggle and remember hundreds of tasks per week, it's no wonder your brain doesn't seem to function as well as it once did Just as our bodies need exercise to maintain health, Japanese neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima believes we need to "workout" our...
 
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St. Jude Begins Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression

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2008-02-08 08:00:01 by Michael in Medgadget
St. Jude Medical just received an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the FDA that will allow the company to proceed with an extensive clinical trial of deep brain stimulation for the treatment of depression in patients that have failed other available forms of therapy. Drs. Mayberg and Lozano conducted the first study of deep brain...
 
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BehindTheMedspeak: 'Tivo neurons' This is your brain on 'The Simpsons'

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2008-09-05 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
Long story short: "In many of the patients, one neuron responded every time they saw a particular video," wrote Emma Byrne in yesterday's Financial Times about a new study published online today in the journal Science To get you warmed up for the heavy stuff to come, here's Benedict Carey's September 4, 2008 New York Times front page story on...
 
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How Culture Forms the Brain

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2008-01-14 17:52:47 by Michael in Medgadget
MIT scientists are looking into why one's cultural upbringing has a large influence on how one perceives physical objects. Psychological research has established that American culture, which values the individual, emphasizes the independence of objects from their contexts, while East Asian societies emphasize the collective and the contextual...
 
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BehindTheMedspeak: 'Brain Map Safeguards Speech During Surgery'

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2008-03-30 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
William Gibson memorably remarked , "The future is already here it is just unevenly distributed So it is with medicine The sophistication or lack thereof of a given medical center is extremely variable, even within the U.S There are places where you will receive monitoring and interventions unknown to others practicing in the very same field...
 
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