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• Fluorescent dyes 'light up' brain cancer cells

  30-01-2015 18:16
  Two new fluorescent dyes attracted to cancer cells may help neurosurgeons more accurately localize and completely resect brain tumors, suggests a new study. Removing all visible areas of cancer (gross total resection) significantly improves survival after brain cancer surgery.
  
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• Transgender children's gender identity is 'consistent and deeply held'

  30-01-2015 17:00
  Researchers conclude new study should serve as “further evidence that transgender children do indeed exist and that this identity is a deeply held one.”
  
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• Key discovery to preventing blindness, stroke devastation

  30-01-2015 16:26
  Gene interactions that determine whether cells live or die in such conditions as age-related macular degeneration and ischemic stroke have been discovered by researchers. These common molecular mechanisms in vision and brain integrity can prevent blindness and also promote recovery from a stroke.
  
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• Treating Cerebral Malaria: New Molecular Target Identified

  30-01-2015 14:21
  A drug already approved for treating other diseases may be useful as a treatment for cerebral malaria, according to researchers who discovered a novel link between food intake during the early stages of infection and the outcome of the disease, identifying two molecular pathways that could serve as new targets for treatment.
  
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• The first rule of dating: there are no rules | Holly Baxter

  30-01-2015 11:02
  
  Own That Guy in 60 Days may have toppled The Rules, but the best relationship advice is still – ignore all bag-a-boyfriend biblesDo you know how to own a guy, catch a man, or bag a boyfriend? It’s a delicate art: you have to lay the traps just right, create the optimum environment and lure him in with your feminine wiles, your carefully honed technique, tried and tested by the 21st century’s most prominent sociologists.Use just the right combination of personal questions about his mother,
  
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• The potential benefits of synaesthesia

  30-01-2015 11:00
  
  Can synaesthesia have cognitive benefits and can it be taught? Those are the questions asked by Jack Dutton in an article published in The Psychologist.
  
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• Findings of a new study point to emotional consequences for women who are objectified for their physical appearance

  30-01-2015 11:00
  
  A new analysis is being called the first of its kind to examine visual attention and gender in social groups, and how those observations can influence the behavior of who's getting the looks.
  
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• Communication is key when dealing with aging parents

  30-01-2015 10:00
  
  Headstrong elderly parents and their adult children may be able to find common ground with proper intervention, according to researchers in human development.
  
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• Children feel most positively about mothers who respect their autonomy

  30-01-2015 10:00
  
  Research shows that the quality of mother-child relationships greatly influences children's development socially, emotionally and academically.
  
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• Communication is key to Emergency Department success, new study says

  30-01-2015 09:00
  
  The high-risk, rapidly changing nature of hospital Emergency Departments creates an environment where stress levels and staff burnout rates are high, but researchers at St.
  
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• Beneficial effects of surgery for epilepsy are sustained for more than 15 years

  30-01-2015 09:00
  
  Brain surgery for otherwise hard-to-treat epilepsy is effective for up to 15 years, according to a new survey by Henry Ford Hospital physicians.
  
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• Binge-watching TV helps some people beat the blues

  30-01-2015 05:41 via today.com
  
  For all the warnings about extreme couch potato behavior, it also may be a way for some people who feel depressed or lonely to beat the blues.
  
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• Brain inflammation linked to clinical depression

  30-01-2015 05:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Researchers show that brain inflammation is linked to depressive symptoms such as low mood, loss of appetite and inability to sleep.
  
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• Panic attack myths

  30-01-2015 05:38 via huffingtonpost.com
  
  Psychologist highlights several common misconceptions people believe about panic.
  
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• Repeated head blows linked to smaller brain volume, slower processing speeds

  30-01-2015 00:51
  
  The Impact of repeated head blows is evident at relatively young age, researchers report, and is linked to a heightened risk of cognitive impairment. Researchers warn that there do seem to be important indicators of brain damage linked to repeated blows to the head, which could be used to inform future regulations.
  
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• Kidney-brain connection may help drive chronic kidney disease

  30-01-2015 00:50
  Salt intake accelerated kidney scarring in rats with chronic kidney disease by activating a brain-kidney connection called the renin-angiotensin axis that interlinks the damaged kidney and brain by afferent and efferent sympathetic nerves, scientists report. Targeting these nerves reduced salt-induced kidney scarring, they add.
  
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