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Brain development in infants who are born very prematurely is still incomplete. Factors that cause premature birth may have an impact on the development of the premature infant's brain both during pregnancy and later on after birth. A project conducted as part of the Academy of Finland Research Programme on Neuroscience (NEURO) is concerned to study brain growth and development invery premature or low-weight infants........

Two new studies show that migraine headaches are very common among U.S. military personnel, yet the condition is frequently underdiagnosed. The studies, appearing in Headache, the peer-evaluated journal of the American Headache Society, examine the incidence among soldiers within 10 days of returning from a 1-year combat tour in Iraq , as well as U.S. Army officer trainees........

Previous research has found that when vision is lost, a person's senses of touch and hearing become enhanced. But exactly how this happens has been unclear. Now a long-term study from the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) demonstrates that sudden and complete loss of vision leads to profound -- but rapidly reversible -- changes in the visual cortex.

The inaugural year of The Kavli Prize will be celebrated with a special ceremony that features H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon Magnus presenting the prize to the seven Kavli laureates. Acclaimed scientists in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience will give lectures throughout the week. For more about the Kavli Prize, including a schedule of all lectures and events, click

Comparative studies of different aspects of brain development in vertebrates and invertebrates reveal remarkable similarities in expression and function of key developmental control genes. Indeed, vertebrates and invertebrates share a complex set of control genes and molecular genetic interactions that are responsible for neural induction, regionalized patterning, progenitor proliferation, and circuit formation in the developing brain.

The medical significance of Electroencephalography (EEG) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is well established. Furthermore, taking into consideration that the language of mind is electric signalling it follows that EEG and MEG allow the recording in real time of "brain conversations". v In order to produce images of brain activation using these imaging techniques it is necessary to solve a particular class of mathematical problems called inverse problems.

1. A New Striatal Microcircuit Matthew A. Sullivan, Huanmian Chen, and Hitoshi Morikawa Cholinergic neurons in the striatum generally fire tonically, but stop firing briefly when the animal receives a reward. The physiological mechanisms responsible for these pauses, which are thought to be important for associative learning, are not clear. This week, Sullivan et al. describe a novel striatal microcircuit that may contribute to pausing.

We all know the famous saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," but is this proverb actually true? According to some researchers, words may pack a harder punch that we realize. Psychologists Zhansheng Chen and Kipling D. Williams of Purdue University, Julie Fitness of Macquarie University, and Nicola C.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $356,000 to Cindy Lee, environmental chemist and a professor of environmental engineering and earth sciences at Clemson University, to look at how pollutants cycle through fish and other organisms and wind up on the dinner table. The research will focus on PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pollutants that have been implicated in problems with brain development in humans.

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (MedPage Today) -- The stigma of Alzheimer's disease tops concerns for people living in the early stage of the disease, researchers found.