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New Tests Monitor Brain Health during Children’s Heart Surgery

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Sticky Molecules Linked to Brain Abnormalities in Type 2 Diabetes

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Mass. General-led study reveals simple structure underlying complexity of the primate brain

Click Here to Read More … An MGH research team has discovered a remarkably simple organizational structure in the brains of humans and other primates, finding that the pathways carrying neural signals through the brain are arranged not in a disorganized tangle but in a curved, three-dimensional grid
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NIH Brain Imaging Study Finds Evidence of Basis for Caregiving Impulse

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The Brain Primed For Aggression By Physical Violence In The Media

Click Here to Read More … Research over the past few decades has shown that viewing physical violence in the media can increase aggression in adults and children. But a new study, co-authored by an Iowa State University psychology professor, has also found that onscreen relational aggression – including social exclusion, gossip and emotional bullying – may prime the brain for aggression…
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Traumatic Brain Injuries are Likely More Common Than Previously Thought

Click Here to Read More … In a recent study published in Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic researchers applied a new, refined system for classifying injuries caused by force to the head and found that the incidence of traumatic brain injury is likely greater than has been estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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MGH study shows how amyloid plaques may damage brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease

Click Here to Read More … Using an advanced imaging technique that reveals how brain cells are functioning, researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease have found that levels of intracellular calcium are significantly elevated in neurons close to plaques in the brains of an Alzheimer’s mouse model.
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Study finds connections between genetics, brain activity and preference

Click Here to Read More … A team of MGH researchers has used brain imaging, genetics and experimental psychology techniques to identify a connection between brain reward circuitry, a behavioral measurement of preference and a gene variant that appears to influence both.
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‘Rare’ Brain Disorder May Be More Common Than Thought, Say Mayo Clinic Scientists

Click Here to Read More … A global team of neuroscientists, led by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida, have found the gene responsible for a brain disorder that may be much more common than once believed.
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Mass. General study finds amplification of multiple cell-growth genes in some brain tumors

Click Here to Read More … A small percentage of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas, which usually resist treatment with drugs targeting mutations in cell-growth genes, appears to contain extra copies of two or three of these genes at the same time. The surprising discovery has major implications for the understanding of tumor biology and for targeted cancer therapies.
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