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How office lighting can boost your productivity

Edit Denver Post 17 Jul 2016
Many employees take pride in personalizing their workspace. But while it’s not uncommon to see desks littered with action figures or cubicle walls cluttered with pictures, few people give much thought to the light around them ... Use blue light for a pretask brain boost ... Our eyes are populated with a special set of cells-photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, to be precise-that detect the presence of short-wavelength blue hues ... ....

Week in Review: July 11–15

Edit The Scientist 15 Jul 2016
Brain’s GPS. Researchers are beginning to understand how the mammalian hippocampus processes navigational information. “What’s emerging in the field in general are efforts to figure out . ... Retinal nerve regeneration. Stanford University scientists have shown that, in blind mice, combining visual stimulation and chemical activation of mTOR can lead retinal ganglion cells to regenerate, partially restoring vision ... CDC ... ....

Pharma and Feds Hide Opioid Report

Edit Mercola 14 Jul 2016
Increasing numbers of middle-aged Americans are becoming hooked on painkillers, often after using the drugs for back pain. Seeking ever-stronger highs, more potent drugs are now reaching the black market ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... Dr ... I have used a topical preparation for myself to relieve ganglion cysts and a mild annoying carpal tunnel syndrome that pops up when I type too much on non-ergonomic keyboards....

How office lighting can boost your productivity, keep you healthy

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 13 Jul 2016
Many employees take pride in personalising their workspace. But while it's not uncommon to see desks littered with action figures or cubicle walls cluttered with pictures, few people give much thought to the light around them ... Our eyes are populated with a special set of cells-photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, to be precise-that detect the presence of short-wavelength blue hues ... Advertisement ... Two surprising findings ...  . ....

Glaucoma Patients Could Have Their Blindness Reversed With New Treatment

Edit Huffington Post 12 Jul 2016
Glaucoma patients could have “irreversible” eye damage reversed after a breakthrough in optical nerve treatment ... Optic nerve fibres, otherwise known as retinal ganglion cell axons, are damaged in patients with glaucoma and do not naturally regrow causing most glaucoma blindness to be permanent ... NEI Director Paul Sieving said ... SEE ALSO. New Treatment Means Eyesight Can Be Restored In Some Types Of Blindness ... ....

Mice can see again! Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain

Edit Science Daily 11 Jul 2016
A study in mice shows for the first time that visual stimulation can help damaged retinal neurons regrow optic nerve fibers (retinal ganglion cell axons). In combination with chemically induced neural stimulation, axons grew further than in strategies tried previously. Treated mice partially regained visual function. The study demonstrates that adult regenerated CNS axons are capable of navigating to correct targets in the brain ... ....

Blind Mice Regain Vision

Edit The Scientist 11 Jul 2016
But in a new study, researchers from Stanford University have shown that combining visual stimulation and chemical activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) led retinal ganglion cells in blind mice to regenerate, restoring partial vision ... ... In the present study, Huberman and colleagues crushed the optic nerves of mice, and labeled the animals’ damaged retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) with a fluorescent dye ... A ... ....

Cellular transport in peripheral pain neurons augments... (University of Tokyo)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2016
(Source. University of Tokyo). painkinesin molecular motorneurotrophincell signalingaxonal transportmotor proteinintracellular transport. Graduate School of Medicine / Faculty of Medicine. 2016/07/08. Pain neurons in the dorsal root ganglion. Pain sensory neurons (white cells in pseudocolor) are labeled with an anti-TrkA antibody (immunohistochemistry) in a paraffin section of the dorsal root ganglion of a laboratory mouse ... Paper ... Links....

Astounding Amounts: Opioid Epidemic Filling up Morgues

Edit Mercola 07 Jul 2016
More than 28,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2014 — more deaths than any other year on record, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... Some Areas Are Looking Into Renting Refrigerated Trucks to Store Bodies ... Dr ... I have used a topical preparation for myself to relieve ganglion cysts and a mild annoying carpal tunnel syndrome that pops up when I type too much on non-ergonomic keyboards....

Life Stories: “My Life Changed With the Prick of a Needle” (Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jul 2016
(Source. Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation). Adult Care & Treatment, Maternal & Child Health, Pediatric Care & Treatment, Democratic Republic of the Congo. By Aurelie Panzu, Field Supervisor for EGPAF-DRC . July 6, 2016. I am a 32-year-old nurse, and the mother of four children ... This attitude made me worry that something bad had happened ... Six weeks after her birth, my daughter, Dorine, developed ganglionic tuberculosis ... (noodl....

Zebrafish reveal the ups and downs of vision (King's College London)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
(Source. King's College London). Zebrafish reveal the ups and downs of vision. Posted on 30/06/2016. Collage of retinal cells ... Published today in Current Biology, the study shows how orientation selectivity is orchestrated in the retina ... More specifically, the retinal output neurons that send visual information to the brain, called ganglion cells, lost their ability to 'see' certain orientations when Teneurin-3 was not present ... (noodl....

CooperVision Unveils Biofinity Energys™ Contact Lenses Specifically Designed for Today’s Digital World

Edit Stockhouse 29 Jun 2016
CooperVision, Inc. today announced the introduction of Biofinity Energys™ with Digital Zone Optics™ lens design, pioneering contact lenses specifically created from the ground up for millions of digital device users ... This simulates what’s known as positive power in the center of the lens, helping reduce strain on the eyes’ ciliary muscle as a person moves their gaze from on-screen to off-screen and back with less effort ... Orsborn ... D....

Biocon, Quark get nod to start trials of eye disease drug

Edit DNA India 23 Jun 2016
-->. The two companies have received a go ahead to start testing QPI-1007' for ocular neuroprotection ... The company further said ... "QPI-1007 represents a novel therapeutic strategy for treating NAION and future plans are to develop it for additional optic neuropathies, including glaucoma, which, similar to NAION, are characterized by the death of retinal ganglion cells," Zurr ... ....
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