Brain

Migraines In Women May Lead To Brain Damage
by eNotAlone.com
Women who experience migraine headaches with aura (sensory disturbances, such as with vision, balance or speech) are more likely to develop damage to a part of the brain important to coordination and the senses, scientists have found.

Brain Detects Happiness Faster Than Sadness
by eNotAlone.com
The study by Spanish and Brazilian researchers has revealed that people make value judgments about other individuals based on their facial expressions, and are able to detect the expressions of happiness and surprise faster than those of sadness or fear.

Daydreaming - An Exercise For Brain
by eNotAlone.com
Daydreaming appears to increase an activity in numerous parts of the brain and helps in "complex problem solving," report scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada.

Weather Affects Our Memory And Brain Ability
by eNotAlone.com
According to psychologists from Australia, bad and gloomy weather is good for our brain and memory, whereas sunny and bright days are good just for our soul. An international team has carried out their research and discovered that while dark and rainy day

It Is Good To Eat Chocolate Before Math Tests
by eNotAlone.com
According to a new scientific evidence, eating or drinking chocolate is very beneficial for the brain's ability to perform on mathematical tasks, as well as for increasing our energy levels. It has been known for a long time that chocolate appears to be

New Hope To Fight Brain Cancer In Children
by eNotAlone.com
The family of eight similar genes mutating in young patients with the most common form of childhood brain cancer - medulloblastoma - have been discovered by Canadian scientists, who now have the opportunity to create less toxic treatments for the brain

Intuition More Reliable Than Brain When Making Decisions
by eNotAlone.com
According to psychologists, our instincts and intuition are more reliable in a decision making, than our conscious brain. A new study conducted at Northwestern University offers precise electrophysiological evidence that such decisions may not be

Loneliness Affects Brain Activity And Social Behavior
by eNotAlone.com
Feelings of loneliness and social isolation can affect a human brain activity as well as people's behavior, shows a new study conducted at the University of Chicago. Researchers have revealed over the time that loneliness leads to decreased activation of

Women Crave For Food More Than Men
by eNotAlone.com
According to a new research on the brain, women unconsciously find it much harder to suppress their cravings for food and resist their favorite meals than men, and are more likely to give in to temptation.

Omega-3 Fatty Acid Improves Tiny Brains
by eNotAlone.com
Researchers have made a world breakthrough when they have boosted the brain function of premature female babies by increasing the amount of an omega-3 fatty acid (known as DHA - docosahexaenoic acid) in either infant's formula or breast milk.

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Musicophilia; Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition.

Are You Wired for Success or Failure?
Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
It all starts with your brain: how you think, how you feel, how you interact with others, and how well you succeed in realizing your goals and dreams. When your brain works right, so do you. When it's out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse.

Origin and Nature of Emotions
by George W. Crile, M.D.
The brain in all animals (including man) is but the clearing-house for reactions to environment, for animals are essentially motor or neuromotor mechanisms, composed of many parts, it is true, but integrated by the nervous system.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
Koser is accredited with reporting results of a postmortem held on a young man of twenty who suffered from a cerebral tumor of considerable duration. It was stated that, although there was a cavity in the brain at least five inches in length, the patient

A Handbook of Health
by Woods Hutchinson
We are exceedingly proud of our brain and inclined to regard it as the most important part of our body. So it is, in a sense; for it is the part which, through its connecting wires, called the

Alcohol, Memory Blackouts and the Brain
by National Institute of Health
Alcohol primarily interferes with the ability to form new long-term memories, leaving intact previously established long-term memories and the ability to keep new information active in memory for brief periods.

Sensitivity to Alcohol-Induced Brain Damage
by National Institute of Health
Women are more vulnerable than men to many of the medical consequences of alcohol use. Although research has shown that male alcoholics generally have smaller brain volumes than nonalcoholic males, the few studies that have compared brain structure

Alcohol and the Developing Brain
by National Institute of Health
One of the distinguishing features of prenatal alcohol exposure is impaired cognitive and behavioral function resulting from damage to the central nervous system. Information available from the small number of autopsied cases in humans indicates

Effects of Alcohol Dependence on the Brain: Positron Emission Tomography
by National Institute of Health
To study alcohol's effects on the structure and function of the brain in living human beings, researchers can use various imaging techniques. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging approach used to study the metabolism and physiology

Brain Damage in Alcoholics: Magnetic Resonance and Diffusion Tensor Imaging
by National Institute of Health
Brain imaging using conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revealed that several brain structures in people with a history of chronic alcohol dependence are smaller in volume than the same brain structures in nonalcoholic control subjects.