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• Measuring damage to brain networks may aid stroke treatment, predict recovery

  11-07-2016 21:55
  Understanding the networks of connections between brain regions and how they are changed by a stroke is crucial to understanding how stroke patients heal, according to new research. The types of scans currently used to assess stroke damage don't capture the effect of strokes on the networks of connections.
  
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• Alzheimer's detected before symptoms via new eye technology

  11-07-2016 21:17
  Scientists may have overcome a major roadblock in the development of Alzheimer’s therapies by creating a new technology to observe in the back of the eye progression of the disease before the onset of symptoms. Clinical trials are starting soon to test the technology in humans, according to a new paper.
  
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• They say there's no 'right' way to mourn. That's what makes it so hard for me | Zack Burdr

  11-07-2016 20:07
  
  With Asperger’s, it helps to know what’s expected of you. But as I found out recently, grief doesn’t come with a roadmapRelated: We don't 'lose' our mothers – the reality is more violent than that | David Ferguson Caroline, one of my best friends, died in June. Everyone grieves differently, people told me. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way. But I can’t help it. I need a template. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome about 13 y
  
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• Helping kids with brain tumors recover beyond the disease

  11-07-2016 18:26
  Social strains and lack of social competence are common in children recovering from malignant brain tumors. A behavioral scientist and colleagues from across the U.S. and Canada, examined a peer-mediated intervention at the survivor’s school and found it was feasible to carry out in the public school setting and was acceptable to the survivor’s family.
  
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• Mice can see again! Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain

  11-07-2016 18:09
  A study in mice shows for the first time that visual stimulation can help damaged retinal neurons regrow optic nerve fibers (retinal ganglion cell axons). In combination with chemically induced neural stimulation, axons grew further than in strategies tried previously. Treated mice partially regained visual function. The study demonstrates that adult regenerated CNS axons are capable of navigating to correct targets in the brain.
  
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• Predicting language deficits after stroke with connectome-based imaging

  11-07-2016 18:05
  Imaging all of the brain's connections after stroke in addition to imaging only the areas of cortical tissue damage could better predict which patients will have language deficits and how severe those deficits will be. Such imaging could also be used to guide rehabilitative therapy.
  
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• Link found between traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's, but not Alzheimer's

  11-07-2016 18:05
  Traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a loss of consciousness (LOC) may be associated with later development of Parkinson's disease but not Alzheimer's disease or incident dementia, new research indicates.
  
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• Stopped 52 Times and Killed by Police: Was It Racial Profiling?

  11-07-2016 17:06 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportPhilando Castile had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including speeding, driving without a muffler and not wearing a seat belt.
  
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• Obama Says Attacks on Police Hurt Black Lives Matter Cause

  11-07-2016 17:06 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Reuters - US NewsU.S. President Barack Obama has warned that attacks on police over racial bias would hurt the anti-racism Black Lives Matter movement, days after a sniper killed five police officers in Dallas in apparent revenge for police shootings of black people.
  
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• ​Georgetown University Confronts Its History with Slavery

  11-07-2016 17:06 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsIn 1838 the university sold 272 slaves to pay off a debt; now, records are providing a glimpse into the previously-obscure past of those slaves' descendants.
  
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• Despite Progress, Olympic Playing Field Not Level for Men and Women

  11-07-2016 17:06 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsWhen it comes to gender equality, the Olympic movement is making a lot of progress. With the addition of women's boxing in 2012, the IOC says women now compete in every sport at the Olympics — but that assertion may be a bit misleading.
  
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• Are E-Cigs Slowing Teen Anti-Smoking Push?

  11-07-2016 17:06 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportResearchers blame the devices for a leveling off of smoking's decline.
  
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• Association discovered between atrial fibrillation, reduced frontal lobe brain volumes

  11-07-2016 16:08
  People who experience the heart arrhythmia atrial fibrillation, may also suffer from a smaller brain, specifically reduced frontal lobe volume, according to a recent Framingham Heart Study.
  
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• Single dose protects cognitive function after mild traumatic brain injury

  11-07-2016 15:25
  A new molecule could protect the brain from cognitive impairments after a mild traumatic brain injury, according to scientists. Mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI, is especially common in children, athletes, and the elderly. Further studies could establish the potential for a single dose of TXM-peptides to prevent damage if administered even one hour after brain trauma.
  
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• New discovery on how the inner ear works

  11-07-2016 15:25
  Parts of the inner ear that process sounds such as speech and music seem to work differently than other parts of the inner ear, researchers have discovered.
  
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• Faking to finish - women feign sexual pleasure to end 'bad' sex

  11-07-2016 14:00
  
  When talking about troubling sexual encounters some women mention faking sexual pleasure to speed up their male partner's orgasm and ultimately end sex.
  
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• Allergic to life: the Arizona residents 'sensitive to the whole world'

  11-07-2016 13:00
  
  In Snowflake, people tell Kathleen Hale they have found refuge in the desert to escape fragrances, electricity, Wi-Fi and other facets of modern lifeA lot of things caused Susie pain: scented products, pesticides, plastic, synthetic fabrics, smoke, electronic radiation – the list went on. Back in “the regular world”, car exhaust made her feel sick for days. Perfume gave her seizures.
  Then she uprooted to Snowflake, Arizona. Related: Green Bank: the town that banned Wi-FiContinu
  
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• Things Getting Under Your Skin? It Could Be Depression

  11-07-2016 12:31 via counsellingresource.com
  
  We all have things that get under our skin. But when things irritate us uncharacteristically and for little apparent reason, it just could be that we're actually struggling with depression. Tags: depression
  
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• Breast cancer: Exercise reduces perceived memory problems in survivors

  11-07-2016 09:00
  
  Study finds breast cancer survivors who engaged in high levels of moderate-vigorous physical activity had fewer self-reported memory problems.
  
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