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Category Archives: Stanford Neuroscience

Brain activity during video gaming

February 27, 2008 – 3:56 pm

By Lumos Labs Science Associate Paul Li, MS Neuroscience.
Males are bigger consumers than females when it comes to mainstream video games. A possible reason males enjoy playing (and end up addicted to) video games might be attributed to how the male brain is wired when compared to the female brain, particularly in the reward and […]

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Early Biomarker for Alzheimer’s?

October 23, 2007 – 11:30 am

By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Researchers from Stanford might have found a biological marker for Alzheimer’s disease via a simple blood test. This is exciting news given that it might predict the onset of the disease several years before the symptoms begin. The procedure involves examining 18 key proteins in […]

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