It's time to start praying for Bobby Murcer again. An MRI on Tuesday revealed a spot on Murcer's brain that has his doctors concerned it could be a recurrence of the tumor the Yankee broadcaster has been battling for more than a year.
An area of the brain involved in the planning and production of spoken and signed language in humans plays a similar role in chimpanzee communication, researchers report online on February 28th in the journal Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.
GALVESTON †Internationally renowned experts in brain trauma will convene April 25-27 for the seventh annual Galveston Brain Injury Conference at Moody Gardens.
In the study, Dr Madoka Noriuchi of Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan University, senior author on the paper, and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging, a tool that allows studying the function of brain circuits in people, to examine patterns of maternal brain activation.
One of the toughest cancers to treat effectively is glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common form of primary brain cancer. Patients who have a recurrence of this cancer have had no effective therapy -- until now.
An area of the brain involved in the planning and production of spoken and signed language in humans plays a similar role in chimpanzee communication, researchers report in Current Biology. The results suggest that the "neurobiological foundations" of human language may have been present in the common ancestor of modern humans and chimpanzees.
NEW DELHI †A tumour of the size of a large ball was removed from the brain cavity of a woman at a city hospital here, doctors claimed yesterday adding that it was the "largest brain tumour removal surgery performed anywhere in the world".
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