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Tag - neurology
Photo by Soana [email protected] What is the botulinum toxin? The botulinum toxin is frequently known as the reason behind botulism. Luckily this is a
Sending weak electrical current into the brain for 20 minutes a day for four days in a row reversed declines in working and long-term memory that come with
Simple blood tests taken on the day of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can predict with fairly high reliability which patients are likely to die and which are
The human nervous system is divided into two major parts known as the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.1 While the central nervous
Niels Birbaumer, once a prominent neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, fell hard from his pedestal three years back. He was accused of
In June 2015, biology professor Colleen Hanlon went to a conference on drug dependence. As she met other researchers and wandered around a glitzy Phoenix
Cortexyme, pressing forward after its novel approach to Alzheimer’s disease failed in a mid-stage trial, believes a lower dose of the medicine might safely
Could this be the return of the “Mozart effect”? In 1993, researchers reported that after college students listened to a particular Mozart piano sonata for 10
Neurapraxia is the mildest type of nerve injury.1 It is a common disorder of the peripheral nervous system – the system of nerves that function to relay
