New Understanding of Schizophrenia Could Lead to New Treatment Approaches;...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  April 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to date that defects in the brain's white matter are a key contributor to the disease...induce pathologic changes in the brain's white matter. They further show that these changes...illness. We show that causing a defect in white matter is sufficient to cause biochemical and...

Births between 23 and 34 weeks: risk factors for neonatal white matter...

OB GYN News;  April 15, 2004 ;     263 words ......infection is associated with development of white matter injury, which is a major precursor of...occurred more often among 150 babies with white matter injury than among 150 controls in a...between 23 and 34 weeks' gestation. White matter injury in this study was characterized...

'White matter' brain link.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  March 18, 2008 ;     58 words ......balance in old age is linked to changes to white matter, or the part of the brain consisting...research has shown. People with severe white matter changes are twice as likely to score...and balance tests as people with mild white matter changes, according to a study in US...

Brain's white matter process information the way grey matter does

The Hindustan Times;  May 8, 2007 ;     479 words ......that nerves in the mammalian brain's white matter not only carry information between various...information the way grey matter cells do. White matter is one of the two main solid components...impulses between neurons. Generally, white matter can be understood as the parts of the...

Brain's White Matter: More 'Talkative' Than Once Thought.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  May 7, 2007 ;     541 words ......that nerves in the mammalian brain's white matter do more than just ferry information...axons talking to other cells in the white matter, says Dwight Bergles, Ph.D., an associate...about OPCs that reside in the brain's white matter, the Johns Hopkins researchers measured...

Aspirin use in older adults preserves gray, white matter.(Geriatric...

Family Practice News;  March 1, 2007 ;     430 words ......prevent age-related declines in gray and white matter integrity in brain regions that typically...temporal lobe and adjacent hippocampal white matter and the posterior cingulate and adjacent white matter in the splenium. With DW-MRI, lower...

Aspirin may protect gray, white matter.(Neurology)

Internal Medicine News;  April 15, 2007 ;     430 words ......prevent age-related declines in gray and white matter integrity in brain regions that typically...temporal lobe and adjacent hippocampal white matter and the posterior cingulate and adjacent white matter in the splenium. With DW-MRI, lower...

A 30-year-old male with diffuse white matter lesions

Neurology India;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......revealed irregularly enhancing diffuse white matter lesions in the periventricular white matter in right frontal temporal and parietal...stereotactic biopsy of right frontal white matter lesion was carried out. Microscopic examination...

Changes in cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism related to magnetic...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......nature and clinical significance of white matter hyperintensities in Alzheimer's disease...whose T2-weighted MR images showed white matter hyperintensities, and 16 age-matched AD patients (age 71.0 +/- 4.3 yr) without white matter hyperintensities were compared. Regional...

Catching up with Canavan's: genetics of spongy brain disease hints at...

Science News;  October 9, 1993 ;     700+ words ......spongy brain disease hints at needs of white matter Five years ago, Reuben Matalon began...understanding the biology of the brain's white matter. Matalon deserves a great deal of credit...yet it is involved in diseases of the white matter. Matalon suggests that NAA may play...

Study Discovers Link Between Increased White Matter in the Brain and Poor...

U.S. Newswire;  July 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......time, an association between increased white matter volume and functional impairment in...that in children with autism, increased white matter volume in the motor region of the brain...typically developing children, increased white matter volume predicts improved motor skills...

Natural born liars; Why the art of deception is all a matter of grey and...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 11, 2005 ;     538 words ......pathological liars had significantly more white matter - which is made of nerve fibres that...were found to have 25.7 per cent more white matter in the prefrontal cortex than the antisocial...first place,' he said. 'The excess of white matter makes it easier for them to carry it...

SEC CLAIMS IN AURA SYSTEMS 10K

PR Newswire;  June 5, 1996 ;     514 words ......PRNewswire/ -- The following are sections from Aura's 10K filing which pertain to the SEC Claims Section. Aura has highlighted the sentences which it believes...claims and their possible implications on Aura. SEC Claims As previously reported, the SEC...

Reduction of white matter in brain causes tone-deafness

The Hindustan Times;  October 1, 2006 ;     318 words ......the condition are in fact lacking in white matter. The study was conducted by a team of...tone-deafness was caused by a reduction of white matter concentration in the brain. "The results...samples in highlighting a reduction in white matter concentration in the right inferior...

Indomethacin tocolysis and white matter injury in preterm infants

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......indomethacin tocolysis and neonatal white matter injury (WMI) in preterm infants. Methods...Keywords: Indomethacin, tocolysis, white matter injury, periventricular leucomalacia...intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and white matter injury such as periventricular echogenicity...