According to a new scientific study, it may be that conditions such as epilepsy (a disease of the brain) and heart arrhythmia (irregular beats of the heart) may have a single molecular root problem. Misfiring electrical signals cause both these afflictions, and researchers say that the newly found knowledge may help ... |
19 October 2009
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Although it may sound unbelievable, many scientific achievements take place behind closed doors and beyond the knowledge of the public. Such is the case with the work of University of Reading experts Kevin Warwick and Ben Whalley, from the UK, who are currently conducting experiments on controlling robots with cluste... |
10 September 2009
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A new scientific study conducted on people suffering from epilepsy may have just supplied scientists with the answer to one of the most difficult questions about the human brain, namely where does consciousness come from? Is it based in certain areas of the brain, or is it generated by the organ functioning as a whol... |
17 March 2009
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Researchers in the UK have managed to discover that the condition know as synaesthesia, which makes sufferers experience a cross-over of perceptions in the presence of a single stimulus, is triggered by genetic factors. Furthermore, they have been able to also identify the general portion of DNA that is responsible f... |
6 February 2009
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it planned to ask pharmaceutical companies to label epilepsy drugs with a clear warning, following studies that had shown that they increased the risk of patients experiencing suicidal thoughts, after being on the prescriptions for a period of time. A user-fr... |
17 December 2008
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic revealed that children with epilepsy, who suffered from seizures, but are now free of them, due to the influence of drugs, can stop using the drugs altogether. The risk of these children developing intractable epilepsy was found to be minimal, so the find was presented on Sunday at the ... |
8 December 2008
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A new medical breakthrough, made by researchers at the University of Verona, in Italy, revealed the mechanisms that trigger epileptic seizures in mice. Miscoordination between the immune cells and the blood vessels in the brain can lead to the release of compounds that cause the inflammation of the vessels, thus trig... |
25 November 2008
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Hacking attacks usually cause technical damage, meaning that attackers manage to break into the systems and steal or access certain information. Unfortunately, there are cases when such hack attacks prove to be really harming and people suffer because of them. Such an attack occurred at the Easter weekend when hacker... |
8 May 2008
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