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Mental Illness

Jumping to delusions: shortcuts in the brain

24 Mar 2010

Why do some people with mental illnesses entertain bizarre and seemingly irrational beliefs that make their lives a misery?

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Neanderthal, New York

Does evolution always lead to bigger brains?

26 Jan 2010

探花直播commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at...

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Stem cells

Understanding how cancer cells grow

04 Jan 2010

Cambridge scientists are asking what role stem cells play in how cancer develops, spreads and relapses.

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dyslexia

探花直播educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia

01 Jan 2010

For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is...

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Waldmann, Clark and Hale

Campath: from innovation to impact

01 Aug 2009

探花直播path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the 30-year journey behind the development of a drug now being used to...

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Free tape measure waistline healthy living stock

EU funding boost for obesity research

18 May 2009

A new European research consortium, in which Cambridge will play a major role, is to receive 3 million Euros to conduct research into the escalating...

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Corey Seehaus

探花直播human brain is on the edge of chaos

23 Mar 2009

There has been speculation for many years that the human brain lives 鈥渙n the edge of chaos鈥, at a critical transition point between randomness and...

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Smoke

Second-hand smoke linked to cognitive impairment

12 Feb 2009

Exposure to second-hand smoke could increase the risk of developing dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment, according to research published...

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Grasshopper

A brain chemical changes locusts from harmless grasshoppers to swarming pests

30 Jan 2009

Scientists have uncovered the underlying biological reason why locusts form migrating swarms. Their findings, reported in today's edition of Science...

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Nerve cell

New hopes for the nervous system: multiple sclerosis

01 Jan 2009

Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.

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Discarded Teenagers

Key to regulation of puberty discovered

11 Dec 2008

A team of scientists from the 探花直播 of Cambridge and the 探花直播 of Cukurova in Turkey has taken a major step to understanding how the brain...

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baby alanna

First gene for child brain tumour identified

03 Nov 2008

Scientists have found the first genetic link to a common childhood brain tumour - reveals research published in the journal Cancer Research.

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