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Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says

Chemosensory functions for pulmonary neuroendocrine cells.

How doctors are failing to spot the brain injury that could be behind 30,000 cases of ‘chronic fatigue’

How Vaccines Harm Child Brain Development

Hidden Brain Activity Distinguishes Between Vegetative Patients

Water contaminant linked to children’s low IQs

Time after Time: Environmental Influences on the Aging Brain

Electrical Scalp Device Can Slow Progression of Deadly Brain Tumors

Evaluation of oxidant stress and antioxidant defense in discrete brain regions of rats exposed to 900 MHz radiation.

More testing, strong state response sought on link to arsenic in wells, IQ

Toxins in the environment may accelerate aging, study finds

Flame retardant in old couches, carpets poses health risk to kids’ IQs

Dads’ exposure to solvents linked to childhood brain tumours

Air pollution linked to children’s attention problems

Air pollution is associated with brainstem auditory nuclei pathology and delayed brainstem auditory evoked potentials

Patients With Pain Disorder Show Gray-Matter Loss in Pain-Processing Structures: A Voxel-Based Morphometric Study

Generation Toxic

The “Gulf War syndrome”. Is there evidence of dysfunction in the nervous system?

Soda linked to behavioral problems in young children, study says

Certain Traits Could Come From Our Mother’s Bacteria, Rather Than Our Genes

Science behind commonly used anti-depressants appears to be backwards, researchers say

Do these genes make me look fat?

‘Little Things Matter’ Exposes Big Threat To Children’s Brains

Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness

iPads, tablets, smartphones disrupt good sleep, study finds

Orthorexia Nervosa – New mental disorder aimed at people who insist on eating a clean diet

Utah Suicides Linked to Air Pollution

Air pollution may be related to anxiety levels in women: study

Could a ‘leaky gut’ be the cause of acne, fatigue and memory fog?

Yes, You Can Catch Insanity

Chocolate Might Be Even Better For The Brain Than Exercise, Study Says

Nutritional Influences on Aggressive Behavior

Why the modern world is bad for your brain

IBM cracks open a new era of computing with brain-like chip: 4096 cores, 1 million neurons, 5.4 billion transistors

Unexplained, polio-like illness has paralyzed 75 kids

Brain may never fully recover from exposure to paint, glue, degreasers

Here come the rice-grain-sized brain implants: Stanford discovers way of beaming power to microimplants deep inside your body

How Pesticides Harm the Young Brain

The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains

Accelerated Brain Gray Matter Loss in Fibromyalgia Patients: Premature Aging of the Brain?

‘Putting the next generation of brains in danger’

Researchers tie Gulf War illness to brain damage

Early Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Pathology in Urban Children: Friend versus Foe Responses—It Is Time to
Face the Evidence

Air Pollution: Mechanisms of Neuroinflammation & CNS Disease

Prenatal and childhood BPA exposure linked to anxiety, hyperactivity in boys

Doctors hunting rare polio-like illness getting tripped up

Doctors & FCC Conclude WiFi Networks Cause Migraine Headaches

Electromagnetic Fields: The Chemical Connection

How Vaccines Harm Child Brain Development

Staten Island doctor’s savvy cures baffling brain disease

Man in an apparent vegetative state responds to Hitchcock clip

Pesticides Can Lower Intelligence

Contaminants have variety of effects on Arctic baby IQ

Neuro-degenerative diseases

Flame Retardants Linked to Lower IQs, Hyperactivity in Children

Chemical brain drain’ endangers generations of children

Brain Diseases Affecting More People and Starting Earlier Than Ever Before

CDC: 1 In 5 US Children May Have Mental Disorder

Neurophysiologic effects of radiofrequency and microwave radiation.

White Matter Hyperintensities, Systemic Inflammation, Brain Growth, and Cognitive Functions in Children Exposed to Air Pollution.

Neurosurgeon Shows How Low Levels of Radiation Such As Wi-Fi, Smart Meters And Cell Phones Cause The Blood Brain Barrier To Leak

Chronic exposure to an extremely low-frequency magnetic field induces depression-like behavior and corticosterone secretion without enhancement of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in mice.

Surge in ‘digital dementia’

Linking Environmental Exposures with Psychological Disorders-Fact Sheet

Lasting Impacts: Pre- and Postnatal PBDE Exposures Linked to IQ Deficits

Brain Diseases Affecting More People and Starting Earlier Than Ever Before

[Psychiatric manifestations of vitamin B12 deficiency: a case report].

Exposure to General Anaesthesia Could Increase the Risk of Dementia in Elderly by 35 Percent

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