Understanding the physics of pancakes to save sight
Understanding the textures and patterns of pancakes is helping UCL scientists improve surgical methods for treating glaucoma. (more…)
Category Archives: Health
Scientists Discover How We Play Memories in Fast Forward
AUSTIN, Texas — Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a mechanism that may explain how the brain can recall nearly all of what happened on a recent afternoon — or make a thorough plan for how to spend an upcoming afternoon — in a fraction of the time it takes to live out the experience. The breakthrough in understanding a previously unknown function in the brain has implications for research into schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders where real experiences and ones that exist only in the mind can become distorted. (more…)
Evidence lacking about breast implant safety
A review of more than 30 studies seeking answers about silicone gel breast implant safety finds that the studies don’t provide definitive evidence. The new paper may help inspire improved analyses of existing data as well as a new registry to provide better data.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Uncertainty about safety has swirled around silicone gel breast implants for years. They were suspended from the market in 1992 and then allowed again in 2006. Throughout, despite many studies, definitive evidence about whether they are linked to health problems ranging from cancer to connective tissue disorders to depression has remained elusive. (more…)
Geschlossener Regelkreis, geringere Nebenwirkung
Anpassungsfähige Stimulation könnte Patienten mit neurologischen Erkrankungen wie Parkinson deutlich entlasten
Könnten beim Einsatz tiefer Hirnstimulation zur Behandlung von Parkinson potenzielle Nebenwirkungen mithilfe eines so genannten geschlossenen Regelkreises vermieden werden, der sich individuell an die Symptome der Patientin oder des Patienten anpasst? Mit dieser Frage beschäftigen sich der Neurowissenschaftler Dr. Ioannis Vlachos und seine Kollegen Taskin Deniz, Prof. Dr. Arvind Kumar und Prof. Dr. Ad Aertsen in einer aktuellen Studie, die in der Fachzeitschrift „PLoS Computational Biology“ erschienen ist.
Do Old Helper T-Cells Remember More?
By looking at an aging mouse’s response to West Nile virus, researchers at the UA have discovered that the immune system’s CD4 T-cells, which remember pathogens they’ve seen before, become multitaskers. (more…)
Tai chi for PD
Fighting Parkinson’s disease through health benefits of tai chi
The University of Delaware is fighting the Parkinson’s disease with tai chi.
People with the nervous system disorder struggle with substantially impaired balance. Along with other benefits, balance is something that the Chinese martial art is very adept at improving. (more…)
Was that my phone?
ANN ARBOR — Has this ever happened to you: You think you hear your cell phone ring or ping, or feel it vibrate, but then look to find no call or message? (more…)
Map shows hotspots for bat-human virus transmission risk
West Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia are most at risk from bat viruses ‘spilling over’ into humans resulting in new emerging diseases, according to a new global map compiled by scientists at UCL, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the University of Edinburgh. (more…)