MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hemisphere'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:20:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4762767&cid=t_118140_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcase-report-a-third-cerebellar-hemisphere%2F2011.04.28 We present a structural anomaly of the cerebellum, which we believe has not been previously reported. A 16-month-old girl presented to the pediatric outpatient department with some delayed developmental milestones. She was full-term with a normal vaginal delivery and no history suggestive of perinatal asphyxia. The motor milestones were delayed, and the child could not stand. The other milestones, including language and socialization, were normal. Examination revealed a bony hard swelling in the occipital region, which, according to the mother, was noticed soon after birth. The occipitofrontal circumference was 52 cm, and the anterior fontanelle was open. There was generalized hypotonia, and the deep tendon reflexes were depressed. Mild truncal ataxia was observed, but there was no nystagm... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4762767 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:00:06 +0100 4762767 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1535847&cid=t_118140_137_f&fid=35357&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAlzheimersNotes%2F%7E3%2F316344488%2F AlzheimersNotes.com The Great Blog Off at b5media celebrates the June 20th summer solstice. Most participating blogs from the Lifestyles, Business, and Entertainment channels will post content once per hour for each hour of the day. However, some like Quilting and Patchwork , will be posting periodically. At Home Biz Notes, another of my b5media blogs, we’ll be posting more frequently. Eliza at Babylune summarizes what’s going on in the Lifestyles Channel. Kelly Erb, CE at the Business Channel provides a roundup of the entire Great Blog Off picture, b5media Bloggers Hit the Keys for Charity. Great Blog Coincides With First Day of Summer This is the first time since 1975 that the summer solstice hasn’t occurred on June 21. On this day, the daytime hours are at a maximum in... Alzheimer's Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1535847 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:18:30 +0100 1535847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1497420&cid=t_118140_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F05%2Fwhere-does-sarcasm-come-from-your-brain-duh%2F Sarcasm is one of those personality traits and types of humor you either like or don’t — there usually seems to be little in-between. Me? I’m a sarcastic fellow and appreciate others who can not only take it, but give it back to me as well. But who knew where sarcasm comes from? Not I. Well, at least not until I read the article in the other day’s New York Times about sarcasm: To her surprise, though, the magnetic resonance scans revealed that the part of the brain lost among those who failed to perceive sarcasm was not in the left hemisphere of the brain, which specializes in language and social interactions, but in a part of the right hemisphere previously identified as important only to detecting contextual background changes in visual tests. “The right pa... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1497420 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:08:11 +0100 1497420 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1423127&cid=t_118140_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2008%2F5%2F6%2Fnirvana-and-your-brain.html By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.D A few days ago my good friend Michael Millenson steered me to a video on a website called Ted.com (www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229). What I saw there was so profound and so exhilarating that I had to replay it several times. It was nothing short of an epiphany. The view from within "Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened – as she felt her brain functions slipaway one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another". To put things in context. In Biology we study cells, organs, and organisms. We... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1423127 Tue, 06 May 2008 00:40:07 +0100 1423127 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1314668&cid=t_118140_107_f&fid=36585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FHighlightHEALTH%2F%7E3%2F254356409%2F This article was published on Highlight HEALTH. Related articlesChiropractic Adjustments and Artery Dissection: Is Your Neck in Safe Hands?The Link Between Biology and EnergyUpdated Rates of the Most Common Neurological Disorders (Source: Highlight HEALTH) Highlight HEALTH blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1314668 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:50:20 +0100 1314668 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1139743&cid=t_118140_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fneuropsychology-abstract-of-day_09.html Haramati S, Soroker N, Dudai Y, & Levy DA. The posterior parietal cortex in recognition memory: A neuropsychological study. Neuropsychologia. 2007 Nov 29 [Epub ahead of print]Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, P.O. Box 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel.Several recent functional neuroimaging studies have reported robust bilateral activation (L>R) in lateral posterior parietal cortex and precuneus during recognition memory retrieval tasks. It has not yet been determined what cognitive processes are represented by those activations. In order to examine whether parietal lobe-based processes are necessary for basic episodic recognition abilities, we tested a group of 17 first-incident CVA patients whose cortical damage included (but was not limited to) extensive unilateral poste... BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1139743 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:07:00 +0100 1139743 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=602389&cid=t_118140_87_f&fid=34866&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecardioblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F09%2Fstroke-triggers-brain-recovery-process%2F Filed under: ResearchDuring a stroke, it is common for a primary function area of the brain to be disrupted. In efforts to compensate for this disruption, the brain sort of kicks into high gear to help reorganize motor and cognitive ability. In some cases, this is the beginning of the recovery process. Researchers from the University of Oxford took a good, hard look into this "backup" brain region, and how it comes to the aid of the brain during a stroke. Focusing on the region of the brain known as the dorsal premotor cortex (which is known to govern the selection of an action), the researchers used magnetic pulses to stimulate and briefly disrupt one hemisphere of the brain and observed how the other hemisphere reacted. They found that during this disruption, the opposite hemisphere dor... The Cardio Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=602389 Wed, 09 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 602389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=556876&cid=t_118140_87_f&fid=34866&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecardioblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F20%2Fstroke-treatment-borrowed-from-parkinsons-patients%2F Filed under: ResearchDoctors have for some time utilized a particular treatment method, involving the use of dopamine-like compounds, for patients who suffer left-brain stroke. This form of treatment is now being looked at again for use in patients who suffer strokes in the right hemisphere of their brain, and their finding that this may be helped with the use of drugs for Parkinson's Disease. Similar to stroke patients who experience motor neglect, patients with Parkinson's Disease are also sometimes slow to respond to stimuli with movement. According to scientists, this is due a loss of neurons that use the neurotransmitter dopamine to regualte activity in the putamen. Although earlier research has been conducted on treating stroke patients with motor neglect by using dopamine-like compo... The Cardio Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=556876 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 556876