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POSTED March 28, 2010 - 12:25 | POSTED BY Neharika Sabharwal

Gestures may help predict language delays in kids--study

A new research claims gestures may play a key role in identifying language delays in children afflicted with brain injuries.

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According to experts, a strong relationship exists between gestures and language development.

They theorize kids with brain damage may use gesticulation to signal the need for assistance in developing language and those using fewer gestures are inclined to develop spoken vocabulary more slowly.

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POSTED February 4, 2010 - 12:47 | POSTED BY Kangna Agarwal

Vegetative patients may talk using brain waves--study

New York, February 4 -- In what may provide a deep insight into human consciousness, one of the most long-standing medical mysteries, scientists claim to have found that patients in a “vegetative state” may in fact be aware of everything around them, and also capable of changing brain activity at will.

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When patients in coma eventually open their eyes on being intensively stimulated, this return of “wakefulness without awareness of self and environment” is accompanied by reflexive motor activity only, devoid of any voluntary interaction with the environment, and the condition is called a vegetative state.

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POSTED February 25, 2009 - 13:14 | POSTED BY Chanchal S. Suri

Brain injury increases epilepsy risk: study

Denmark, February 25: Danish researchers have found that people suffering from traumatic brain injury are at higher risk of developing epilepsy, a chronic neurological disorder.

Brain injury increases epilepsy risk: study

The researchers said that the risk of developing epilepsy persist for over a decade after the injury. But the treatments could help to prevent the disease.

Dr. Jakob Christensen, of the neurology department at Aarhus University Hospital, and colleagues said, "Traumatic brain injury is a significant risk indicator for epilepsy many years after the injury. Drug treatment after brain injury with the aim of preventing post-traumatic epilepsy has been discouraging, but our data suggest a long time interval for potential, preventive treatment of high-risk patients.”

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