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High-dose ginkgo may protect brain cells from stroke damage
iHealthBulletin News | October 10th 2008
HopkinsMedicine.org - Working with genetically engineered mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that daily doses of a standardized extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree can prevent or reduce brain damage after an induced stroke. The scie read more
Seattle: Jury Awards $4.25 Million in Cerebral Palsy Lawsuit
Cerebral Palsy Law News | October 10th 2008 by Mary Kennedy
Memory Loss tied to Lower Brain Volume
Migraine News Network | RainGem | | October 7th 2008 by Rain Gem
In people with occasional memory or thinking problems, the hippocampus is smaller than in people who have no memory problems. On average, the hippocampus had a volume of 6.7 milliliters in those with occasional subjective memory problems, compared to read more
Dying or Dead?
Rotten Little Girls | October 3rd 2008 by Dollface
I read this article on Yahoo! News about “What happens when we die”, and with recent events, it just made me think. As for my atheist and pragmatic perspective, I am inclined to believe that after death our bodies rot and decay just as e read more
Filler Post
Thinking Out Loud | September 30th 2008 by Valerie Morrison
I’m tired of looking at that week old post just like you, so I’m throwing in a filler. Maybe S.A.D.1 has come early for me this year. Right now, I would be quite content curling up in a dark cave and taking a long nap. Of course, my s read more
The Little Blog that Could
pajamadeen.com | September 21st 2008 by pajamadeen
We've made a rough descent into the rabbit hole of Alzheimer’s disease, which my mother has. At last, the day came when she couldn’t remember my name. Even though you know the day is coming, it’s still shocking when it arrives. Three out of thr read more
Physiological Effects of Alcohol Consumption
Brain Blogger | September 13th 2008
Alcohol (when used commonly refers to ethanol) is consumed widely around the world for numerous reasons. Its properties have been both praised and demonized. In humans it generally acts as a depressant with, conversely, mild stimulating effects of so read more
Helping You Sleep - Brain Reprogramming
Migraine News Network | RainGem | | September 6th 2008 by Rain Gem
Most migraine people have sleep problems. Just goes with the territory.Yours truly is on an ongoing quest to find a way to put the over-sensitive and over-worked migraine brain to sleep - regularly and, if possible, naturally.After all, sleeping is i read more
Chrome too weak to fight "Evil"
9ja Site | September 4th 2008 by Oladipo MD
Google’s new browser, Chrome crashed completely today while I was browsing a page in LifeHacker. I came across a link and on mouseover, I got this The culprit, a link that does nothing but wishes for the destruction of the Google browser. Let read more
Disability categories
Disability is an Art | September 1st 2008 by Shazia Shamim
Amputee: Athletes with a partial or total loss of at least one limb. Cerebral Palsy: Athletes with non-progressive brain damage, for example cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, stroke or similar disabilities affecting muscle control, balance or read more
Magnesium sulfate decreases cerebral palsy in high risk pregnanci…
iHealthBulletin News | August 28th 2008
Giving an infusion of an inexpensive, natural compound - magnesium sulfate - just before delivery to pregnant women who were at high risk for preterm birth cut the rate of cerebral palsy in the children born by half, a new study found. “This is one read more
Migraine Destroys Your Brain, part II
Migraine News Network | RainGem | | August 27th 2008 by Rain Gem
Migraines act like mini-strokes which cause brain damage. It has been recently speculated that person's mental abilities are impaired during a migraine attack due to the lack of oxygen to the brain and not only because of the pain, as was thought pre read more
Anti-nogo to repair brain damage after stroke
iHealthBulletin News | August 25th 2008
Research hopes to reverse stroke disability by promoting nerve fiber growth. LoyolaMedicine.org - If a stroke patient doesn’t get treatment within approximately the first three hours of symptoms, there’s not been much that doctors can do read more
Blaze by Richard Bachman
In The Shadow of Mt. TBR | August 18th 2008 by Alisha B
Title: Blaze Author: Richard Bachman (pen name used by Stephen King) Hardcover: pages 286 Publisher: Scribner (A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc) Publish Date: June 2007 ISBN: 9781416554844 One hungover Saturday morning when not much was doing, read more
Dangerous Weight Loss Methods
Health Care for All | August 17th 2008 by Tridianto
We’re all looking for that magic pill. You know - the one that we can take and lose weight without really trying! What would you give up to be skinny? How about your health? Well, some of the methods of weight loss may cost you exactly that. Before read more
Nature recipe Dog Food
Pets Training Tips Blog | August 4th 2008 by kon5518
My dog, my friend, companion, pathfinder, seeker and watcher.whatever your dog means to you,your way of taking care of your dog will prove his love and affection to you. Dogs are very sentitive to love. My dog, my friend, companion, pathfinder, seeke read more
Brain is life
FROGSTONE | July 28th 2008 by kurt
Just a trivia for this day:After all what happen I got time to search "if the brain have limitaion" so i got this article to read and I want to share with you what i learned for a while.This article give me some idea on how to take care of your brain read more
Can You Read Me?
FROGSTONE | July 27th 2008 by kurt
Cna yuo raed tihs?Olny 55% of plepoe can.I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in read more
How To Brainwash Americans, Part One: The Beginning
ShadowMyth's Multiverse | July 25th 2008 by Shadow
Yes, it is true, most of the world is brainwashed, but every country/religion/family, has it’s own special methods! This series of articles will explore the American way, and help you get a closer look into why Americans ‘think’ the read more
Concussions and sports
iHealthBulletin News | July 25th 2008
Sports-related concussions in young athletes frequently go unrecognized, and often do not receive proper respect for the potential seriousness that even a mild injury may have, says Mark Halstead, M.D., an instructor of orthopedic surgery and of pedi read more
Step Away From Your Cell Phone
Just My Two Cents | July 24th 2008 by Dr. Rus Jeffrey
A new study, or is it an old study. It’s really hard to tell because most of these things seem to cycle around and around and around. This time there’s a new/old study which says cell phone use might be hazardous to your health. Dr. Ronal read more
Paper or Plastic?
Thinking Out Loud | July 16th 2008 by Valerie Morrison
When the cashier at your local grocery says to you, paper or plastic they really want to know: how are you going to pay for this crap, with paper or plastic money! Yesterday, I spent 35 minutes of my lunch hour putting groceries in my shopping cart read more
Fae - A Mental Health Moment
The Soccer Moms' Guide to Wicca | July 10th 2008 by wiccamoms
I got off medications for anxiety and depression 19 months ago (read more here), and was put on a light dosage of mood stabilizers. I had spent 18 years emotionally numb on these drugs, and didn't feel they were helping. The last 19 months have been read more
Complete Information on Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
LIFESALARY.COM - ARTICLES CENTER | July 2nd 2008 by JBiggs
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs in unusually high frequency in Chile. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is aform of brain damage that causes a rapid decrease of mental function and movement. It isbelieved to result froma protein called a prion. It af read more
100 percent oxygen after birth may damage baby’s brain, worsen…
iHealthBulletin News | July 1st 2008
The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional harm, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Interestingly, admini read more
Vilayanur Ramachandran On Your Mind
The Situationist | June 29th 2008
From TED: “Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.” (24 minutes.) read more
A Peek Inside My Brain……..Caution Not For The Squeamish
ThoughtForFood | June 19th 2008 by Callie Van Zant aka Red
As I was browsing through the usual mishmash of stuff that flows through my email the other day, you know, work at home, enlarge your penis….ahem! my what?…., make $10,000.00 a day by buying my ebook, (yeah, right!), Martha’s late read more
Have You Ever Heard of Brain Damage Being Contagious?
Going Like Sixty | June 12th 2008 by Sixty
My daughter is brain damaged because of an aneurysm. She’s a gimp. Lucky for everybody she can function pretty normally, and they live in Florida where everybody is brain damaged. But she may have developed a side effect we didn’t anticip read more
TBI Prevention and Demographics
Beauty Trend Blog | June 9th 2008 by kon5518
Scientists continually strive do uncover research related to if certain individuals are more susceptible to traumatic brain injury (TBI) compared to others. Looking at age and gender, researchers are attempting to pinpoint TBI causes in order to prov read more
The Double Daily Doodle: Part Deux
Stanks In Technicolor | June 3rd 2008
Hola! ?Donde esta el bano? …that’s pretty much the extent of my knowledge of the Spanish language. It’s a good thing that my favorite things to do are say hi and ask people their names. Wait, what? Until next time, Fuckaluckadingd read more
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