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Owl Mystery Unraveled: Scientists Explain How Bird Can Rotate Its Head Without Cutting Off Blood Supply to Brain
01/31/2013 - 15:46

Medical illustrators and neurological imaging experts at Johns Hopkins have figured out how night-hunting owls can almost fully rotate their heads - by as much as 270 degrees in either direction - without damaging the delicate blood vessels in their necks and heads, and without cutting off blood supply to their brains.

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Decline in verbal ability in adolescence linked to psychosis
01/21/2013 - 14:24

New research from Karolinska Institutet and King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry has found that adolescents whose verbal performance drops off are at increased risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders many years later. The findings are published in the scientific periodical JAMA Psychiatry.

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Eating (milk) chocolate may lower risk of getting a stroke
08/30/2012 - 13:34

New research from the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet shows that eating a moderate amount of chocolate each week may be associated with a lower risk of stroke - regardless of the chocolate being dark or light. The findings are based on data from over 37 000 men and is published in the online issue of the scientific journal Neurology.

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Infants Can’t Distinguish Between Large and Small Groups, MU Researcher Finds
06/19/2012 - 13:31

Human brains process large and small numbers of objects using two different mechanisms, but infants have not yet developed the ability to make those two processes work together, according to new research from the University of Missouri.

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BPA Exposure Effects May Last for Generations
06/18/2012 - 13:56

Exposure to low doses of Bisphenol A (BPA) during gestation had immediate and long-lasting, trans-generational effects on the brain and social behaviors in mice, according to a recent study accepted for publication in the journal Endocrinology, a publication of The Endocrine Society.

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Damaged myelin in the brain and spinal cord does not cause the autoimmune disease Multiple sclerosis
02/27/2012 - 13:28

Damaged myelin in the brain and spinal cord does not cause the autoimmune disease Multiple sclerosis (MS), neuroimmunologists from the University of Zurich have now demonstrated in collaboration with researchers from Berlin, Leipzig, Mainz and Munich. In the current issue of Nature Neuroscience, they therefore rule out a popular hypothesis on the origins of MS. The scientists are now primarily looking for the cause of the development of MS in the immune system instead of the central nervous system.

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