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The danger of turning ‘brain death’ and organ donation into culture war issues
18 Apr 2024 19:56 GMT
… permission for such neurological testing and that Catholic health care practitioners should … adamantly disagreed with it on medical and bioethical grounds. There is … stipulate that every last neuron in the brain must cease firing before …
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Treatment Relieves Chronic Lyme Disease’s Neurological Symptoms
18 Apr 2024 20:22 GMT
… death in brain and nerve tissues affected by Lyme disease.
This … of the National Institutes of Health, P51 OD011104.
Author: … showed higher expression in neurons.
In the DRG, … treatment in antibiotic refractive neurological Lyme. Alternatively, two …
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A Common Pathway in the Brain That Enables Addictive Drugs to Hijack Natural Reward Processing Has Been Identified by Mount Sinai
18 Apr 2024 20:07 GMT
… , Director of The Friedman Brain Institute, and Dean for … to track how individual neurons in a forebrain region … that integrates drug-induced brain-wide neural activation with … Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical …
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How Drugs Hijack the Brain’s Reward System
18 Apr 2024 20:22 GMT
… Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and co-senior … of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers P01DA047233, … calcium imaging at single-neuron resolution, and single-cell … mapping of NAc-projecting neurons from regions that are …
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Valley View’s Dr. Ituarte’s journey to Orthopedic Medicine
18 Apr 2024 20:05 GMT
… spine fellowship at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. He says spinal … human body, connecting neurons throughout the whole body … the neurons,” he said.
Ituarte was doing spine surgery … can be treated with medications, injections and physical …
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Cocaine seems to hijack brain pathways that prioritise food and water
18 Apr 2024 19:23 GMT
… reward pathway in the human brain
FERNANDO DA CUNHA/ … like eating and drinking.
A brain pathway called the mesolimbic reward … track the activity of individual neurons in the brains of mice … able to override how the brain translates need states into …
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Plasma Biomarkers GFAP & Tau Predict Poor Neurological Outcomes Post-Cardiac Arrest
18 Apr 2024 18:42 GMT
… protein and tau: predictors of neurological outcome after cardiac arrest,” published … with neurofilament light (NFL) and neuron-specific enolase (NSE).
They involved … hours post-cardiac arrest. Poor neurological outcomes were characterized as Cerebral …
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Krembil Foundation funds support research on brain immune system’s role in Alzheimer’s
18 Apr 2024 18:51 GMT
… disruption and eventual death of neurons, resulting in cognitive decline … at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at … in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease that often … Diseases Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health …
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Scientists uncover the cells that save you when water goes down the wrong pipe" data-before-rewrite-localise="/health/anatomy/scientists-uncover-the-cells-that-save-you-when-water-goes-down-the-wrong-pipe
18 Apr 2024 18:14 GMT
… danger signals to the brain. But these nerves don't do … then activates nerves that shoot signals to the brain.
Get the … lab dishes, switches on sensory neurons that initiate swallowing and coughing … with the subject line "Health Desk Q," and you …
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Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' that mimics the human brain
18 Apr 2024 17:47 GMT
… 1.15 billion artificial neurons and 128 billion artificial … following calculations.
Like the brain, Hala Point and the … different layers, similar to neurons in the brain. The chips also … large networks of spiking neurons at 228 trillion synaptic operations …