Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
A team of researchers led by Ehud Ahissar of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, says that the brain always keeps track of changing frequencies of neurones like a Frequency Modulator (FM) radio. Information is passed in form of electrical pulses to the processing centre in the cortex. …
Soccer may be harmful for your brain. Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Norway, obtained magnetic resonance images of the brains of 15 male soccer players and 17 male American football players
genes play a more important role than the environment in determining mental abilities of humans, even at a mature age, say researchers from the us , the uk and Sweden. Most behavioural scientists are surprised with the findings since it had generally been accepted that an individual's experience in different …
font class="UCASE"> the relationship between emotions and susceptibility to a disease was establi-shed a long ago. Now a study conducted by Esther H Sternberg of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, usa, explains the process of communication between neural and immune systems ( Nature medicine , Vol 3, No …
a drug is being developed that would help repair damaged nerves in patients with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. Two groups of researchers, one led by Guilford at Johns Hopkins University and another led by Bruce Gold at Oregon Health Sciences University, discovered the drug several years …
the threat of neurological diseases may not persist for long in the wake of scientific advances in gene therapy. Some of the most ambitious research in neurology focuses on replacing cells lost in damaged tissue. This can be achieved by transplanting neurones (nerve cells) or by delivering growth factors
traditional systems of healing have always recognised that one's 'state-of-mind' has a strong bearing on issues of well-being and disease. Modern medicine is now starting to recognise and accept the truth in this. Scientists from different fields of medicine, such as immunology, neurobiology, endocrino-logy, and even psychiatry, are coordinating at …
parkinson's disease is a condition in which the limbs lose the coordination of involuntary movements. Muhammad Ali, the former heavy weight world boxing champion, is among the most famous of its victims. It is caused by a deficiency in the level of dopamine - a neuro-transmitter molecule in the brain. …
stress - always recognised by alternative medicine, ancient Indian practitioners and yogis as a cause for disease, is only now being studied by modern scientists and doctors for its implications for the human body. Advances in the understanding of the neurobiology of stress open vistas for preventive medical treatment including …
A recent study says the inability in women to synthesise the hormone serotonin as fast as men could be the reason why women feel more depressed. A team of researchers led by S Nishizawa of the McGill University, Montreal, measured serotonin synthesis in eight women and seven men. The synthesis …
Environmental pollution is responsible for a significant share of violent crime and antisocial behaviour, according to an analysis by Roger Masters of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He says metals in, drinki, disrupt the neuro social, economic and psychological factors cannot fully explain why some counties in the US have only …
A new study has revealed that some boxers are genetically predisposed to suffer brain damage due to blows taken on the head. The findings were presented at the World Boxing Council's first medical conference on boxing safety at the Caribbean island of Aruba by Barry JordAn, a neurologist at the …
AlewiJn Ott and Monique Bretler of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, have concluded that people who smoke are twice as likely to develop senile dementia as compared to those who have never smoked. The study was conducted over a period of two years on 6,870 people above 55 years of age. They …
ALZHEIMER disease (AD) is now recognised as a serious public health problem. in a large number of people, AD develops at a rather late age of about 65 years. Alzheimer was hitherto considered to be a Western problem because of longer life span - the us for example has over …
THE Oxford dictionary defines mood as the 'state of one's feelings or mind at a particular time'. For researchers looking at brain and behaviour, the relationship between change of moods to other physiological changes has always been a challenge, since any clue or significant association between them can help find …
Enter the eighteenth month and a child begins to distinguish between its own desire and someone else's. This was discovered recently by Betty Repacholi at the University of Sydney in Australia and Alison Gopnik at the University of California in the US. After studying 160 toddlers, half of them aged …
how does the brain function? What are memories? How does the brain perceive the difference between Bach and Anu Malik? How are the processes of sleep, dream, awareness, problem solving and creative thinking, and the dynamics of nerve cell assemblies that make consciousness possible, related? These are questions that have …
V SREERAJ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM A team of researchers, including C R Santoshkumar, consultant haematologist at the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), has been recently awarded a us patent for inventing a method for the determination of oxidised sulfuhydrl amino acids (osaa) in biological fluids like serum and cerebrospinal fluid. The other …
a team of researchers led by Abby C King and colleagues of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, us, reports that in people between 50 and 76 years with sleep complaints, a regular and moderate-intensity exercise programme can improve their sleep quality (Journal of the American Medical Association …
why do humans behave so differently from one another? Behavioural scientists say that a study of this variation is a rather controversial one even while it is exciting. They say that if you look hard enough, genetic influence on behaviour can be easily identified. For example, variation in personality traits …
