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Carbohydrate foods addictive

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American scientists claim that eating foods with a high glycemic index increases the activity areas of the brain responsible for feelings of pleasure, the formation of traction and addiction. American scientists claim that eating foods with a high glycemic index leads to the fact that increases the activity areas of the brain responsible for feelings of pleasure, addiction and the formation of thrust. Stimulation of similar brain areas noted in the formation of various types of addictions such as drug, tobacco, alcohol or another. Mechanism of the effect of foods rich in carbohydrates (white bread, pasta, potatoes) is that carbohydrates are the fastest split body that causes a sharp increase in blood glucose, and then a sharp drop in its level. This occurs within four hours after a meal - a time determining eating behavior during the next meal. Lack of sharp glucose activates the appropriate parts of the brain depending on the formation, which was confirmed by testing the activ...

Hot Chocolate - best for brain

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Researchers at Harvard Medical School studied the effect of hot chocolate on the human brain. Researchers concluded that cocoa contained in nutrients necessary for a person as protect his brain damaged areas of education. In particular, experts have found a link between what the consumption of hot chocolate and memory, thinking, and neurovascular coupling in the brain - a process in which blood flow to the brain tissue changes with increased activity of certain brain regions. Neuroscientists explain that Neurovascular communication plays an important role in diseases involving degeneration of the brain, for example, in the development of Alzheimer's disease . In an experiment to study the properties of cocoa 60 elderly people without dementia, at an average age of 73 years, every day during the month of drinking a cup of hot chocolate. In this study participants did not use any more products containing chocolate. When a month of daily use small portions of hot cocoa volunte...

Chronic pain can be caused by abnormalities

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In the structural connections of the brain and do not depend on the source of the original injury. This is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the Medical Institute at Northwestern University. In a study conducted by Professor Ivan Apkaryana physiology, was attended by 46 patients with chronic pain in the lower back. The participants underwent a brain scan, and then the experts during the year following the change in pain from them. Approximately half of the participants in this time the pain was gone, regardless of whether they took any medication. The study confirmed that certain brain structures associated with chronic pain. This will change the approach to the diagnosis of pain and to develop more effective treatment.

Brain grown from stem cells

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Austrian scientists for the first time, the world has grown from stem cells in the human brain is small. The results of the research are published in the journal Nature. To grow a brain, biologists took skin cells healthy person and reprogrammed them into stem cells (iPSC, induced pluripotent stem cells), which can develop into any type of tissue. The thus obtained stem cells are first grown in a special gel substrate, the structure resembling the connective tissue of the human body, and then placed in a tray. After a while of stem cells grown some structures resembling embryonic brain during the ninth week of development. The diameter of each reached 3-4 mm. Under the microscope, the scientists were able to examine the interacting region of the brain. In the mini-brain was detected even bark. "The overall structure of the grown samples differed," - said Noblich. This is due to the fact that in normal fetal brain maturation run molecule growth factors produced elsewhe...

Health of the baby crying analyzer

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U.S. researchers have developed a tool that analyzes a child crying for the presence of health problems and development. Scientists from Brown University in collaboration with Children's Hospital took into account the changes in the child's crying, indistinguishable to the ear may indicate a change in the health of the baby. Crying Analyzer captures the difference acoustics crying. According to Associate Professor Stephen Shenkopfa, many neurological conditions affect the nature of the baby's crying. For example, a birth injury , premature birth, brain injury as a result of complications of pregnancy. The new device will be a non-invasive method for diagnosing disorders in the neurobiological and neurobehavioral system of newborns.

Symptoms of Brain Tumor

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With another name of intracranial growth, brain cancer truly includes the first growth originates from brain parenchyma and secondary brain cancer, the metastases from different components of body. Its symptoms vary as individual condition changes. What Cause Brain Cancer? 1. The radiation and electrical waves from portable and laptop will promote the canceration of cells. 2. The prevalence of brain cancer is expounded to the contact of insect powder, solvent, dyes and gas in keeping with studies. to boot, a pregnant girl takes alcohol or hair coloring before delivery would increase the danger for babies to develop metastatic tumor. 3. A growth might develop in brain simply because of environmental trauma irritating brain and scar tissues of brain. This traumatic growth principally happens on a base of damages in cerebral meninges and arachnoid. External injure of brain will stimulate the expansion speed of existing brain cancer besides. 4. Radiation. The semipermanent e...

Uncompromised Benefits of Stem Cells

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The stem cell saga seems to be popularized at this point in time - with testimonials from prominent people admitting on TV and online news portals that they've gone through the process for various reasons and quite satisfied with the results. Stem cells are actually from the body's master cells that are extracted and processed for their curing capabilities that are found to be effective even in treating several chronic diseases. These cells can be found in some adult cells particularly from embryos and amniotic fluid. Adult stem cells are more flexible to be processed to create similar type of embryonic cells. Body tissues have rare substance cells but they normally generate new essential cells. The newly formed cells split into stem cells called self-renewed cells and specialized cells. Specialized cells are compatible with the cells in the brain, heart, blood and bone. They are capable of repairing damaged tissues and impaired body organs when infused. The following a...