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Local organization kicks off the New Year by delivering holiday cheer and resources to help people overcome the burden of seizures and end epilepsy. (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 The Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angeles will launch the first of its 2013 Epilepsy Community Forums for Families on Saturday, January 5th in conjunction with its annual Family Holiday Party at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica, CA. The Forums’ interactive sessions will provide...

Brain Spade developers build unique brain training content to challenge baby boomers, young adults and more. Richmond, VA (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 BrainSpade.com, a new consumer brain health application from The Rowing Team, LLC, will launch in mid-January 2013. After months of intense development and a collaborative effort from designers across the globe, Brain Spade is set to deliver valuable brain health information and offer unique brain games, brain teasers and personal...

[ Watch the Video: Dragonfly on the Hunt ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers from the University of Adelaide have uncovered the first evidence that invertebrates, like primates, have brain cells dedicated to the process of selective attention. Writing in the journal Current Biology, Dr. Steven Wiederman and associate professor David O'Carroll from the university's Centre for Neuroscience Research describe how they were able to learn that...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Science is a magnificent thing and yet, there is still so much we don’t yet understand. For instance, scientists are still working to fully understand the part of our body that resides right in front of our face. More than 100 years ago, scientists discovered a mechanism that provides feedback from our nose to our brain. Though these scientists discovered this mechanism, they weren’t yet able to fully understand how it works to...

Cell Press [ Watch The Video ] Humans perceive numerous categories of objects and actions, but where are these categories represented spatially in the brain? Researchers reporting in the December 20 issue of the Cell Press journal Neuron present their study that undertook the remarkable task of determining how the brain maps over a thousand object and action categories when subjects watched natural movie clips. The results demonstrate that the brain efficiently represents the diversity...

San Francisco, CA, Dec. 15-19, 2012 Moscone Center, 747 Howard Street ORGANIZING THE EYE'S NEURONS Poster: 2342/B1205 Special Interest Subgroup: Tissue Development and Morphogenesis II Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012; Exhibit Halls A-C, 12:30 – 2 p.m. Authors: A. R. Tomás and M. R. Deans Tomás and Deans have identified a protein needed for neuron organization in the developing retina. The team says that the study helps reveal how the healthy retina — the part of the eye that...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online One of the unique features of the human mind is its ability re-prioritize its goals and priorities as situations change and new information arises. This happens when you cancel a planned cruise because you need the money to repair your broke-down car, or when you interrupt your morning jog because your cell phone is ringing in your pocket. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Molecular diagnostics company DioGenix, Inc. today announced it raised $1.5 million in Series B financing. Existing investors including life sciences fund Nerveda LLC participated in the round to support a prospective, multi-site clinical trial to validate MSPrecise(TM), DioGenix' proprietary next-generation sequencing test for the early identification and diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). In a recently completed study, MSPrecise...

Brain Host, a web hosting company based in Akron, has joined forces with Habitat for Humanity of Summit County for an ongoing fundraising campaign. Akron, Ohio (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 Brain Host, a web hosting company based in Akron, has joined forces with Habitat for Humanity of Summit County for an ongoing fundraising campaign. Customers of web hosting provider Brain Host will have the opportunity to add a $1.00 donation to their order at checkout, which will then be matched by the...

[Watch Video: Woman Uses Mind To Move Robotic Arm] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Reaching for an object, shaking someone’s hand, sending a text message—these are all things that most of us take for granted every day. But for people who are quadriplegic (paralyzed from the neck down), like Jan Scheuermann, tasks such as these are not possible because of paralysis. That is until now. Researchers from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC...