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‘Smart’ drugs won’t make smart people smarter
November 12 2014 It is claimed one in five students have taken the ‘smart’ drug Modafinil […]
Appears in Issue 5
Tags: ‘Smart’ drugs, cognitive function, Dr Ahmed Dahir Mohamed, Hayling Sentence Completion Test, Modafinil, negative effects, neuropsychological task, PLOS one, randomised double blind study, research, School of Psychology, UNMC
New research calls for more action to prevent childhood injuries
October 27 2014 Young children from socially-deprived households are still most at risk from injuries in […]
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Tags: burns, childhood injuries, Dr Elizabeth Orton, fractures, injury-related health inequalities, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, PLOS one, poisonings, research, socially-deprived households, Socio-economic deprivation, The Health Improvement Network, Townsend Index of material deprivation
New cell model to speed up development of brain tumour drugs
September 3 2014 New research from The University of Nottingham looks set to improve screening for […]
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Tags: children with brain tumours, Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre, Delyan Ivanov, Dr Martin Garnett, drug delivery systems, EPSRC AstraZeneca Centre, new cancer drugs, new methodology, Oncology, PLOS one, Professor David Walker, School of Pharmacy
Pinpointing the damage alcohol does to the brain
New research has identified, for the first time, the structural damage at a molecular level that […]
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Tags: alcohol abuse, brain damage, Dr Wayne Carter, molecular level, PLOS one, Post-mortem brain tissue, prefrontal cortex, School of Life Sciences, School of Medicine, structural damage
Tell-tail MRI image diagnosis for Parkinson’s disease
An image similar in shape to a Swallow’s tail has been identified as a new and […]
Appears in Issue 4
Tags: Dr Stefan Schwarz, Parkinson's, Parkinson's disease, PLOS one, Professor Dorothee Auer, Professor Penny Gowland