1. Lung Cancer Patients to Undergo Preventive Brain Radiation
(Modalities/Radiology )

... live longer with more effective treatments. To learn more about how PCI impacts a patient’s quality of life and cognitive function, Dr. Movsas and his colleagues tracked the progress of 340 patients with ...

2. Stereotactic Radiosurgery Preferred Method of Treating Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... probability (96.4 percent) that patients randomized to SRS alone would continue to perform better. M. D. Anderson researchers measured participants’ neurocognitive functions using a short battery of neuropsychological ...

3. Medico- Legal aspects of the Usage of Electronic Health Record
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

... percent of the medical practice activities can be controlled. The remaining 50 percent depends solely on human judgment and cognitive functions that when unfavourable conditions are present could lead ...

4. MRI Study of Normal Brain Development
(Communities/MRI)

... a general cognitive ability factor and essentially most, if not all, cortical association areas is demonstrated in the same study.” A deeper insight into normal cognitive functioning and abilities is ...

5. Robarts Research Institute Installs MRI console from Varian, Inc.
(Company News/Varian Medical Systems, Inc.)

... metabolism, physiology, cognitive function and vascular dynamics, both in normal and research patient populations, using a variety of advanced nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy techniques. ...

6. UC Davis Researchers to Map Brain Patterns of Alzheimer's Disease
(Communities/MRI)

... decline in Alzheimer's. "Once diagnosed, patients, physicians and families have no reliable method for anticipating how fast cognitive functioning will decline," Carmichael said. "We hope that this method ...

7. Neurognostics installs at Cleveland Clinic and University of Iowa
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... "Using these tasks, we will be able to study the cognitive function of individuals with Huntington's disease." "We are pleased to be working with The University of Iowa and The Cleveland Clinic to study ...

8. Functional MRI abnormalities accompany childhood-onset lupus
(Communities/MRI)

... brain activation. "At present, the degree of sensitivity of fMRI does not permit its use as a diagnostic tool for cognitive function in individual SLE patients," the researchers conclude. "Nevertheless, ...

9. Some hypertension drugs may help reduce dementia risk
(Imported/Imported)

Some high blood pressure medicines may help protect older adults from declines in memory and other cognitive function, according to new research reported at the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics ...

10. Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery during abstinence
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... cigarette smoking and alcohol dependence.” Durazzo added that previous research had shown that chronically smoking alcoholics demonstrate poorer performance in multiple areas of cognitive functioning ...

11. Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
(Communities/MRI)

... a seemingly mild concussion," she added. The study utilized a computer-based neuropsychological test called ImPACT™ (Immediate Post-Concussion and Cognitive Testing), which measures cognitive function ...

12. Experimental handheld monitor can detect subtle brain injury immediately after concussion
(Imported/Imported)

... - into numbers called quantitative EEGs, or QEEGs. A significant advance, QEEGs gave scientists an objective and standardized way to assess cognitive functions. Dr. John has devoted much of his career ...

13. Leading experts meet to help advance motor neurone research
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... they cause motor neurones to degenerate they may be able to develop drugs that combat the progression of the disease. Other research discussed involves the link between motor neurons and cognitive function, ...

14. Neural stem cell study reveals mechanism that may play role in cancer
(Communities/Nuclear Molecular)

... neocortex, the seat of higher cognitive functions. Now, scientists have discovered a key mechanism of this migration - one that may also play an important role in other developmental processes and diseases, ...

15. Brain network related to intelligence identified
(Imported/Imported)

... functions like language. Haier and Jung say this possible integration of cognitive functions suggests that intelligence levels might be based on how efficient the frontal-parietal networks process information. ...

16. Genetic contributions to human brain morphology and intelligence
(Imported/Imported)

... structure and cognitive functions. However, in elderly twins, the associations between frontotemporal brain volumes and executive function were found to be because of common environmental influences ...

17. New clinical data shows chromium picolinate improves cognitive function
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

Developer of chromium-based and omega-3 nutritional supplements announced that daily supplementation with 1000 mcg of chromium as chromium picolinate improved cognitive function in adults with memory decline. ...

18. Brain-injured war veterans show a faster decline in cognitive functioning as they age
(Imported/Imported)

A study of Vietnam war veterans who suffered brain injuries during the conflict has found that the men show a faster decline in their cognitive functioning as they grow older. Published online (Wednesday ...

19. Brain region that can be stimulated to reduce the cognitive deficits of sleep deprivation identified
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... stimulation to improve cognitive function," said Bruce Luber, Ph.D., lead author of the paper and an instructor in clinical psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the ...

20. Neuromusic showtime
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... been a relatively unexplored field, deserving further studies because of their implications on neurocognitive functions in both healthy and impaired development. Another symposium, coordinated by Simone ...