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physiological maintenance

Goodnight. Sleep Clean. Saturday, January 11, 2014  ·  Posted by Maria Konnikova, New York Times Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It’s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result

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neuronal connections

Goodnight. Sleep Clean. Saturday, January 11, 2014  ·  Posted by Maria Konnikova, New York Times Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It’s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result

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Kessler Foundation researchers find education attenuates impact of TBI on cognition

Thursday, February 27, 2014  ·  Posted by Kessler Foundation Results support the hypothesis of cognitive reserve in traumatic brain injury Kessler Foundation researchers have found that higher educational attainment (a proxy of intellectual enrichment) attenuates the negative impact of  traumatic brain injury (TBI) on cognitive status. The brief report, Sumowski J, Chiaravalloti N, Krch D, Paxton J,

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University of Rochester

Goodnight. Sleep Clean. Saturday, January 11, 2014  ·  Posted by Maria Konnikova, New York Times Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It’s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result

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homeostasis

Goodnight. Sleep Clean. Saturday, January 11, 2014  ·  Posted by Maria Konnikova, New York Times Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It’s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result

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Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight: Andiamo Friday, September 12, 2014  ·  Posted by Alex Richmond, Executive Director “Andiamo is a social venture creating a new user-centred children’s orthotics service. Our aim is to drastically reduce wait times from 13 weeks to 48 hours, by using 3D scanning and printing technology.” U.R. Our Hope Monday, June 23, 2014  ·  Posted by Mary Elizabeth

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Get Involved

Join Our Community Upcoming Events Fundraise Volunteer/Intern Newsletter Archive No upcoming events Past Events Pediatric Brain Awareness Week The Counter in El Segundo 2014 World Stem Cell Summit Global Hydranencephaly Awareness Walk/Run Sprout Film Festival Archives January, 2015 (1) December, 2014 (2) June, 2014 (1) May, 2014 (3) April, 2014 (3) March, 2014 (7) February,

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neurotransmitter

A new cell type is implicated in epilepsy caused by traumatic brain injury Tuesday, March 11, 2014  ·  Posted by Tufts University A new study in mice identifies increased levels of a specific neurotransmitter as a contributing factor connecting traumatic brain injury (TBI) to post-traumatic epilepsy. The findings suggest that damage to brain cells called interneurons disrupts

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