TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Stroke survivor Ken Allsford focused intensely on how he wanted to bend his elbow. And then the robot exoskeleton attached to his left arm obeyed his unspoken command, moving his crippled limb. “It was a combination of exciting and trepidation, because sometimes nothingContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Medical science has come a long way since the days of “bikini medicine,” when the only time doctors managed a woman’s health differently than a man’s was when treating the parts of her body found under a bikini. Over the pastContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The nerve pain drug gabapentin might reduce damage after a spinal cord injury, research in mice suggests. The drug prevented harmful structural changes in injured spinal cords, as well as cardiovascular changes and immune suppression caused by spinal cord injury, according to theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Why does one person take a lot of risks and another proceed with more caution? Researchers came closer to that answer with a new study that shows risk-taking behavior may be related to characteristics in the brain. The study found there is noContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Enlarged spaces in the brain that fill with fluid around small blood vessels may be a harbinger of impending dementia, a new Australian study suggests. Typically, these so-called perivascular spaces help clear waste and toxins from the brain and might be linked withContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Think your dog is smart? New research suggests one way to find out. Most dogs can’t learn words without extensive training, but a few with exceptional abilities learn words without any formal training, researchers report. They learn words simply by playing with theirContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Too much screen time can make your toddler more distractible, British researchers warn. The use of smartphones and tablets by babies and toddlers has soared in recent years. “The first few years of life are critical for children to learn how to controlContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — While researchers continue to try to find the key that unlocks the cause of Parkinson’s disease, new research suggests that what a person eats could make a difference. Researchers in Canada found a strong correlation between eating either a Mediterranean diet or theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) – – “You snooze, you lose” may not be true when it comes to your brain: A new study finds that napping in the afternoon may actually boost mental agility. The study couldn’t prove cause and effect, but a midday nap was associated withContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have found a way to track what your mind is doing when thoughts begin to wander. Using electroencephalograms (EEG) to measure brain activity while more than two dozen study participants did mundane attention tasks, the researchers identified brain signals associated with aContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Stem cell transplants may have long-lasting benefits for some people with aggressive cases of multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests. Italian researchers found that among 210 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who received a stem cell transplant — with cells from their own bloodContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain, fine-tuned to specific “circuitry” gone awry, might help ease obsessive-compulsive behaviors, an early study hints. Researchers found that the brain stimulation, delivered over five days, reduced obsessive-compulsive tendencies for three months, though in people who did notContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A study that examined how people walked through doorways provides new insight into anorexia’s effect on a person’s body image. It’s long been known that people with anorexia overestimate their body size, but this study examined unconscious body awareness — formally called “bodyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A rare brain disease that causes loss of language skills doesn’t lead to memory loss, a new study finds. The condition is called primary progressive aphasia and about 40% of people who have it have underlying Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers. Their studyContinue Reading