Saturday, September 09, 2006

Woman In Vegetative State Communicated Through Her Thoughts. A woman who had suffered severe brain injury in a car accident and was in a vegetative state managed to communicate just by using her thoughts, say scientists from the UK and Belgium. They scanned her brain and discovered that she was able to understand verbal commands - she could even visualize herself playing tennis when verbally triggered to do so by the scientists.You can read about this discovery in the journal Science. [click link for full article] [Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today] 6:09:13 AM    comment [] A Second Dimension To Alzheimer's Disease Suggested By Study. The genes responsible for an inherited form of Alzheimer's disease play a direct role within cells that has largely been overlooked, according to a report in the September 8, 2006 issue of the journal Cell, published by Cell Press. [click link for full article] [Health News from Medical News Today] 6:08:30 AM    comment [] New Web Site From American Stroke Association Helps Shoppers Find Gifts, Fight Stroke. A new online store can help people withtheir holiday shopping -- and help fight stroke, America's No. 3 killer.The Web site, http://www.strokeassociation.org/power , offers newpromotional merchandise and educational materials about stroke. Buyers andwearers alike can become stroke advocates for the "Power To End Stroke"campaign. [click link for full article] [Health News from Medical News Today] 6:08:05 AM    comment []

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