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Tero Toivanen

Music as Medicine for the Brain - US News and World Report - 0 views

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  • Tero Toivanen on 27 Sep 09
     
    Music therapy has been practiced for decades as a way to treat neurological conditions from Parkinson's to Alzheimer's to anxiety and depression. Now, advances in neuroscience and brain imaging are revealing what's actually happening in the brain as patients listen to music or play instruments and why the therapy works.
Tero Toivanen

Your Brain Scan Looks Different on Mac and PC - 2 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 19 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Tero Toivanen on 19 Jun 12
     
    "Science and medicine are supposedly based on rigor-a rigor where theories are only correct if you can replicate results. It turns out, though, that the software used to analyze medical images of your brain gives wildly different answers if it's run on Mac or PC."
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Cord blood cell transplantation provides improvement for severely brain-injured child - 0 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 10
     
    In three monthly injections, researchers transplanted neurally-committed, autologous cord blood derived cells tagged with iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIO) into the lateral cerebral ventricle of a 16-month old child with severe global hypoxic ischemic brain injury. The study is published in the current issue of Cell Medicine
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Map of Synapse May Help Understand Basis of Many Diseases - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • The research team, led by Seth Grant of the Sanger Institute near Cambridge, England, compiled the first exact inventory of all the protein components of the synaptic information-processing machinery. No fewer than 1,461 proteins are involved in this biological machinery, they report in the current issue of Nature Neuroscience.
  • Each neuron in the human brain makes an average 1,000 or so connections with other neurons. There are 100 billion neurons, so the brain probably contains 100 trillion synapses, its most critical working part.
  • The 1,461 genes that specify these synaptic proteins constitute more than 7 percent of the human genome’s 20,000 protein-coding genes, an indication of the synapse’s complexity and importance.
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  • Dr. Grant believes that the proteins are probably linked together to form several biological machines that process the information and change the physical properties of the neuron as a way of laying down a memory.
  • The new catalog of synaptic proteins “should open a major new window in mental disease,” said Jeffrey Noebels, an expert on the genetics of epilepsy at the Baylor College of Medicine. “We can go in there and systematically look for disease pathways and therefore druggable targets.”
  • Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 10
     
    The research team, led by Seth Grant of the Sanger Institute near Cambridge, England, compiled the first exact inventory of all the protein components of the synaptic information-processing machinery. No fewer than 1,461 proteins are involved in this biological machinery
  • Ruth Howard on 26 Dec 10
     
    Seeing mental health as a druggable target is psychotic...
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