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Tau levels in blood may have role in long-term TBI complications
PHOENIX: Research suggests that levels of blood protein tau — already reportedly linked to acute symptoms following traumatic brain injury (TBI) — may also be responsible for the long-term complications resulting from TBI.
Individuals with TBI are more likely to experience ongoing complications such as Read More »
Dementia patients to benefit from app that measures pain
BOSTON: Researchers have developed a world-first smartphone app that measures pain using facial cues.
For the patients who can’t communicate, carers try to gauge their pain using a checklist of symptoms known as a behavioural pain scale.
Professor Jeff Hughes from Curtin University has developed Read More »
Baroness slammed by colleagues over claims internet damages children’s brains
LOS ANGELES: For nearly a decade one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Baroness Susan Greenfield, has been warning the internet and computers may be harming children’s brains.
But now in an extraordinary public outburst, the former director of the Royal Institution has been attacked by colleagues Read More »
Alzheimer’s disease identified as major global health threat
LOS ANGELES: Alzheimer’s Disease – Global Drug Forecast and Market Analysis to 2023 claims guidelines are not closely followed due to the heterogeneity of symptoms; there is a widespread reluctance to seek treatment in the absence of curative therapies; diagnosis in early stages of the disease Read More »