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(JAMA and Archives Journals) Different ingredients in marijuana appear to affect regions of the brain differently during brain processing functions involving responses to certain visual stimuli and tasks, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Chronic lower back pain doesn't just hurt.

It also appears to cause thinning of certain regions of the brain, which may lead to cognitive impairments, a study shows.

Regions of the brain that respond to pain overlap with those that react to rejection, according to a new study that used brain imaging on on people going through romantic breakups.

(University of Rochester) A new study from the University of Rochester finds that there is no single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species.

Instead, humans rely on several regions of the brain, each designed to accomplish different primitive tasks, in order to make sense of a sentence.

(St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center) NFL players and other athletes who suffer serious or multiple concussions may benefit from ground-breaking research being conducted by scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St.

Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. The scientists are developing a surgical technique that involves hypothermia in specific regions of the brain.

Although acupuncture has long been used to treat pain, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms are not fully understood.

The process appears to involve the brain's ability to produce opioids (pain-reducing chemicals) that bind to neurons in distinct regions of the brain, and the ability of neurons to produce receptors for these endogenous opioids—specifically, mu-opioid receptors (MORs).

TORONTO (MedPage Today) -- A frameless stereotactic needle biopsy of brain tissue is as safe in regions of the brain that involve language and other functions as it is in less vital areas, researchers said.