Brain

Tom Daley: 'my dad's brain tumour is back'
Tom Daley, the teenage diving champion, has disclosed that his father's brain tumour has returned four years after a life-saving operation to remove it.

More players pledge to donate brain after death
BOSTON (AP) — Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Haynes and current Chicago Bears linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer are among more than a dozen NFL players who have pledged to donate their brain and spinal cord tissue for concussion research.

Soccer star experiencing swelling around brain
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Doctors treating Paraguay soccer star Salvador Cabanas say he is showing symptoms of swelling around the brain as he tries to recover after being shot in the head in a Mexico City bar.

Study Measures Traumatic Brain Injury
By Christen N. McCluney - Scientists at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center and a professor at Columbia University are working on a collaborative study measuring brain damage on traumatic brain injury patients.

Brain dopamine receptor density correlates with social status
People have typically viewed the benefits that accrue with social status primarily from the perspective of external rewards. A new study suggests that there are internal rewards as well. Researchers found that increased social status and increased social support correlated with the density of dopamine D2/D3 receptors in the striatum, a region of the brain that plays a central role in reward and ...

'Inside Obama's Brain,' by Sasha Abramsky
Inside Obama's Brain By Sasha Abramsky (Portfolio; 288 pages; $24.95) "Inside Obama's Brain" by Sasha Abramsky is an extended "psychological profile" of the president by a talented and admiring journalist. This profile is a "write-around" (Obama was not...

Brain injury charity hoping for move
A brain injury charity, which has spent the past three years in a temporary home, hopes to relocate to a new site later this year.

Brain-Storming for Savings at Schools
Regional school board members met with county and state legislators at the Millenium Hotel in Cheektowaga on Saturday to brain-storming for ideas on using limited funds more wisely.

Inter Milan boss Mourinho has dig at Balotelli brain cells!
Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho insists there's no great rift with Mario Balotelli. Mou added some spice during Friday’s presentation of McDonald Mariga when he praised the Kenyan for having “millions of neurons and brain cells, so he works hard in training every day. There are some at Inter who have only one.” Although the tactician never mentioned Balotelli by name, the reference was fairly ...

Debate grows over when brain dead means dead
The concept of brain death -- an irreversible loss of all brain function -- emerged in the 1960s in answer to modern medical technology that could keep the heart and lungs functioning mechanically ...