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New Cannabis-like Drugs Could Block Pain Without Affecting Brain, Says Study
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 6 days (www.sciencedaily.com)
New research shows that CB2 receptors, a type of cannabis receptor, are present in the peripheral nervous system but not in the brain. The signficance? Now cannabinoid drugs that can be tweaked to affect only this receptor can be used for painkilling purposes without causing physical addiction or intoxication or any of the mild mental side effects know in recreational marijuana. Osteoarthritis in particular seems a likely place to apply this information. 


10 percent of healthy people in study had injury from "silent strokes"
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (esciencenews.com)
A recent study found that about 10 percent of the apparently healthy middle-aged participants with no symptoms of stroke were injured from "silent strokes," researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Silent cerebral infarction (SCI), or "silent stroke," is a brain injury likely caused by a blood clot interrupting blood flow in the brain. It's a risk factor for future strokes and a sign of progressive brain damage that may result in long-term dementia. 
Sexual orientation of an individual is the result of shape of brain!
ariel submitted, created time 5 months 3 days (www.healthjockey.com)
Popes and scientist can put their debate on homosexuality to rest. While priests argued that homosexuality was a matter of choice and a sin, scientists were still finding a reason behind the ‘similars attract’ phenomena in homosexuals.
Finally a simple discovery resulting from brain scan has unveiled the reason behind the same sex attraction in gays and lesbians.
It has been found that shape of the human brain is the reason behind an individual’s sexual orientation 


Implantable device designed to detect, stop seizures under study at MCG
MedColGa submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.discover8.com)
A small device implanted in the skull that detects oncoming seizures, then delivers a brief electrical stimulus to the brain to stop them is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. 


Antioxidants may protect against knee arthritis
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)
According to a new study, people who have diets with plenty of foods containing antioxidants may be protecting themselves from bone changes associated with knee arthritis. 


captainclaw submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.biomedcentral.com)
"These findings indicate that dyslexics are phonologically impaired (delayed N400 in the rhyme judgment task) but that they also have difficulties in other, non-phonological aspects of reading (longer response times, longer persistence of the N400). Specifically, semantic and syntactic integration seem to require more effort for dyslexic readers and take longer irrespective of the reading task that has to be performed. " 


Body awareness training curbs ankle re-sprains
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.reutershealth.com)
A rehabilitation program that strengthens an athletes' awareness of their posture and movement may be the best way to prevent them from reinjuring a sprained ankle, a new study from Iran shows. 


Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.abc.net.au)
The research by Professor George Paxinos of the University of New South Wales and Professor Charles Watson from Curtin University of Technology will be presented next month at the IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience in Melbourne.
They spent seven years combining the latest international brain research with old fashioned anatomy studies to create an atlas of the chicken brain.The result is the most sophisticated map of a brain ever published, charting more than 100 new areas.In particular, the atlas shows for the first time the 11 different units of the Rhombomeres area of the brain 
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