Posts Tagged ‘ The Brain ’

Unhealthy relationship 

August 28, 2011
Unhealthy relationship 

An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]

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Rabies – prevention is safer, cheaper 

April 12, 2011
Rabies – prevention is safer, cheaper 

Dogs and cats are the leading cause of rabies around the world. Rabies is a viral disease transmitted trough saliva that causes acute encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain. It is almost always fatal if appropriate treatment is not provided in time. Once the symptoms appear, the disease will always lead to death, in spite [...]

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Scientists find way to map brain's complexity 

April 11, 2011
Scientists find way to map brain's complexity 

  Scientists say they have moved a step closer to developing a computer model of the brain after finding a way to map both the connections and functions of nerve cells in the brain together for the first time. In a study in the journal Nature on Sunday, researchers from Britain’s University College London (UCL) [...]

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‘Thinking cap’ makes brain waves in Australia 

February 11, 2011
‘Thinking cap’ makes brain waves in Australia 

Professor Allan Snyder displays a “thinking cap” (R) on a glass head at the University of Sydney. Scientists in Australia say they are encouraged by initial results of a revolutionary “thinking cap” that aims to promote creativity by passing low levels of electricity through the brain. The device, which consists of two conductors fastened to [...]

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Study: Coffee may reduce or reverse Alzheimer’s disease

July 6, 2009
Study: Coffee may reduce or reverse Alzheimer’s disease

Daily coffee consumption may help delay the progress of Alzheimer’s disease or reverse the condition, according to a study in Sunday’s online edition the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.  Drinking coffee has previously been linked to a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s, but this is the first study to suggest that caffeine can directly target the [...]

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Getting overseas students back home

March 29, 2009
Getting overseas students back home

LookAtVietnam – The brain drain and lack of practical education were among the major problems facing the country, students and leading members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union told HCM City education officials at a conference yesterday.Students from 130 high schools in the city attended the meeting organised by the municipal Department of [...]

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Best and brightest disappear down the brain drain

March 5, 2009
Best and brightest disappear down the brain drain

High school students look for information about foreign schools at the 6th International Education and Career Expo in Ho Chi Minh City last month. More and more Vietnamese are studying abroad, but how many of them will come back after graduating? It has been years since Nguyen Thanh Hung, vice principal of Ho Chi Minh [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...