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Survey finds ischaemic stroke and altered mental status as most common neurological complications in severe COVID-19 cases

July 1, 2020 by SharpBrains

Brain dam­age, psy­chi­atric prob­lems report­ed in severe coro­n­avirus cas­es, study says (Mia­mi Herald):

A new study shows that severe cas­es of the coro­n­avirus can cause strokes and oth­er neu­ro­log­i­cal issues, or an “altered men­tal state” for patients.

The research, pub­lished in the British med­ical jour­nal Lancet Psy­chi­a­try, looked at a small pool of severe COVID-19 cas­es. The researchers found more than 100 patients who had either neu­ro­log­i­cal or psy­chi­atric prob­lems from the coronavirus.

[Read more…] about Sur­vey finds ischaemic stroke and altered men­tal sta­tus as most com­mon neu­ro­log­i­cal com­pli­ca­tions in severe COVID-19 cases

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: altered mental state, brain hemorrhage, brain-damage, coronavirus, neurological, neuropsychiatric, psychiatric problems, stroke, strokes

Study suggests canola oil is not as beneficial as advertised; sustained use may cause memory problems and brain damage

December 14, 2017 by SharpBrains

Canola oil could cause weight gain and mem­o­ry loss (Los Ange­les Times):

“Accord­ing to a recent study con­duct­ed on mice, just two table­spoons of canola oil per day can cause weight gain and severe pro­gres­sion of Alzheimer’s dis­ease. The new results are call­ing into ques­tion pre­vi­ous rec­om­men­da­tions of canola oil as a health­ful alter­na­tive to sat­u­rat­ed fats.

“Canola oil is appeal­ing because it is less expen­sive than oth­er veg­etable oils, and it is adver­tised as being healthy,” said lead researcher Domeni­co Prat­icò, M.D. “Very few stud­ies, how­ev­er, have exam­ined that claim, espe­cial­ly in terms of the brain.” [Read more…] about Study sug­gests canola oil is not as ben­e­fi­cial as adver­tised; sus­tained use may cause mem­o­ry prob­lems and brain damage

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimer’s Disease, brain, brain-damage, canola oil, Learning, memory, olive oil, pathophysiology, plaques, saturated fats

When flying to Mars, make sure to monitor and enhance brain function (radiation exposure can hurt performance)

May 26, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Could a trip to Mars fry astro­nauts’ brains? (The Wash­ing­ton Post):

“Brain dam­age. Mem­o­ry dete­ri­o­ra­tion. Intel­li­gence loss. This could be your brain on a trip to Mars…The find­ing, pub­lished in the open-source jour­nal Sci­ence Advances this month, could throw a wrench in the many ambi­tious mis­sions aimed at [Read more…] about When fly­ing to Mars, make sure to mon­i­tor and enhance brain func­tion (radi­a­tion expo­sure can hurt performance)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: astronaut, brain, brain-damage, brain-function, intelligence loss, MaRS, memory deterioration, neurocognitive

Brain health, and concussions, start to receive due attention

April 9, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Invest­ing in brain health (CNBC):

“No more than 10 years ago, I played for a league where I felt the pres­sures both inter­nal­ly and exter­nal­ly to return to the field and keep play­ing no mat­ter what. The words “con­cus­sion” and “TBI” (trau­mat­ic brain injury) were not fre­quent­ly used [Read more…] about Brain health, and con­cus­sions, start to receive due attention

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: brain, brain-damage, Brain-health, concussion, Traumatic-Brain-Injury

Next: Wider use of EEG measurements in emergency care

October 3, 2014 by SharpBrains

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New EEG elec­trode set for fast and easy mea­sure­ment of brain func­tion abnor­mal­i­ties (press release):

“A new, easy-to-use EEG elec­trode set for the mea­sure­ment of the elec­tri­cal activ­i­ty of the brain was devel­oped in a recent study com­plet­ed at the Uni­ver­si­ty of East­ern Finland…make it pos­si­ble to attach the elec­trode set on the patient quick­ly [Read more…] about Next: Wider use of EEG mea­sure­ments in emer­gency care

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-damage, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral infarction, EEG, EEG measurement, electrode, emergency care, epileptic seizure

Brain Damage, Therapeutics and the Blood-Brain Barrier

July 11, 2012 by SharpBrains

Blood-Brain Bar­ri­er Less Per­me­able in New­borns than Adults after Acute Stroke (press release):

“The blood-brain bar­ri­er is selec­tive­ly per­me­able and blocks unwant­ed mol­e­cules from enter­ing into the brain. The selec­tiv­i­ty is achieved [Read more…] about Brain Dam­age, Ther­a­peu­tics and the Blood-Brain Barrier

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: blood-brain barrier, brain-damage, neonatal, repair, therapeutics

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