by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Suicide
Testing positive for a common parasite that lives in the bodies of 10 – 20% of Americans is linked to a sevenfold higher risk of attempted suicide according to new research. This was the main finding of a study appearing in the August issue of The Journal of...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Obesity
A review article in the August issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, suggests that scientific advances in understanding the “addiction circuitry” of the brain could effectively treat obesity using deep brain...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Brain Complications
Current HIV drug therapies are not able to control the virus’ complete replication in the brain and are therefore ineffective against complications linked to neurocognitive impairment in HIV patients. However, a new study published online in the Journal of...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Research
A study published in the August 20 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals that an international team of scientists at Saskatchewan University discovered a protein in semen, which influences the female brain to prompt ovulation...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Stroke
Numerous muscles are involved and use coordination just to perform simple actions like picking up a pen. For instance, the eyes and head need to turn towards the object, the hand needs to reach towards the pen and the fingers need to pick it up. This complex...
