Medical Xpress 2014 inventory of the top 10 medical findings

5. The reason is not easy to get lost: the brain hormone signal University College London researchers determined the direction of the brain responsible for people to identify the current functional area location, orientation. In the journal Current Biology paper, the research team explained that the nasal area within the brain’s temporal lobe has been considered responsible for internal orientation, this study found that it is also responsible for navigation. The researchers found that in fact they can use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) imaging to measure a person’s sense of direction.

6.7-year-olds can be strategically thinking of three University of Minnesota researchers conducted a study to test the thinking strategies of children, found children as young as six and a half years old as an adult can be had used in the game strategy of. The team’s findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They found that children are able to summarize, they are able to infer what others in the face of temptation in mind is.

7. How to “terminate” autoimmune disease University of Bristol researchers reported a treatment of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis major breakthrough. The paper was published in Nature Communications. By understanding the team from the attacker to the protector of the working principle of the conversion process, describing prevent the immune system attacks healthy tissue, the way they identified. The school affiliated biotechnology company is currently working on the clinical development of this process.

8. Stroke and cardiovascular disease genetic markers University of Virginia research team announced that a genetic variant associated with increased risk of stroke and certain types of cardiovascular disease-related. The paper published in PLOS Genetics. The team writes, this study analyzed more than 5,000 people in the genome and metabolic pathways associated therewith, and these pathways in a variety of diseases plays an important role.

9. Forgetfulness, dementia and for the first time the relationship between the reverse
Panel report and Buck Institute for Aging Research Center (Buck Institute for Research on Aging) joint University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), said they have developed a 36 treatment programs reduce the study 10 volunteer patients in nine of dementia symptoms. In a paper published in the journal Aging, the team describes the treatment program and a detailed description of the observations 3-6 months trial period patient.

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