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Brain steroids make good dads: Fish study provides insight
May 19, 2014 by NewsBot - No Comment
Insights from a highly social fish can help understand how other androgenic steroids, like testosterone, can shape a male’s parenting skills. Once bluebanded gobies become fathers, they stay close to the developing eggs, vigorously fan and rub them unt…
Few seizing patients receive EEGs in emergency department, research finds
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Even though it could impact their admission or care in the hospital, few seizing patients receive a diagnostic electroencephalogram, or EEG, in the emergency department, says a new study. The team studied the use of EEGs to diagnose status epilepticus,…
New MRI analysis predicts which stroke patients will be helped — or seriously harmed — by clot-busting treatment
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A technique that can predict — with 95 percent accuracy — which stroke victims will benefit from intravenous, clot-busting drugs and which will suffer dangerous and potentially lethal bleeding in the brain has been developed by researchers. In an i…
Optical brain scanner goes where other brain scanners can’t
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A brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head has been advanced by new research. The improvement avoids the radiation exposure and bulky magnets the others require. The new optical appr…
Genes play key role in brain injury risk for premature babies
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Premature babies’ risk of brain injury is influenced by their genes, a new study suggests. Researchers have identified a link between injury to the developing brain and common variation in genes associated with schizophrenia and the metabolism of fat. …
Key gene in early brain regeneration in planarians described by scientists
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The gene egr-4 may play a key role in early brain regeneration in planarians —- a group of invertebrates used as models in the study of the genetics of development, research suggests. The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea are flatworms with bilateral …
Is higher-education policy making inequality worse?
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The current higher-education system may actually deepen inequality and further disadvantage those at the bottom of the American economy.
U.S. youth activity report card gives poor grades to adults
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American children are scoring failing marks in fitness because of the lure of the Internet, time-pressed parents and the culture of the car, fitness experts say.
Chronic sleep deprivation linked to childhood obesity
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A new study suggests chronic sleep deprivation during infancy and early childhood may increase the risk for obesity by age seven.
