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Prostate cancer is a serious threat for men over the age of 40, with the American Cancer Society anticipating nearly 250,000 new cases in 2012. Taking a natural prostate pill may help to improve a man's prostate health. However, for men who have already contracted prostate cancer it's important to know all available treatment options.

That can be difficult when organizations apply questionable standards to the naming of their products, as is the case with Accuracy's new CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery. David Samadi, M.D., ? chief of robotics and minimally invasive surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center, has expressed concerns that the name of this new service may be misleading. While it does use robotic technology, Cyberknife is not actually a surgical device. Instead, it administers high doses of radiation that target prostate cancer cells.

Consequently, Samadi maintains that the service should be marketed solely as radiation therapy, and that the inclusion of "robotic" in its title may be an attempt to entice patients interested in robotic surgery.

Surgery options utilizintg robotic devices are increasingly popular. Recently, surgeons in the United Kingdom successfully removed a man's prostate with a robotic device for the first time.?

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Simple 3-D grid structure underlying complexity of primate brain

ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2012) ? How do you build a brain? In the March 30 issue of Science a team of investigators presents a surprising answer, reporting their discovery of a remarkably simple organizational structure in the brains of humans and other primates. Employing sophisticated mathematical analysis of advanced imaging data, they found that the pathways carrying neural signals through the brain are arranged not in a disorganized tangle but in a curved, three-dimensional grid.

"We found the brain is built from parallel and perpendicular fibers that cross each other in an orderly fashion. Finding this kind of simple organization in the forebrain of higher animals was completely unsuspected," says Van Wedeen, MD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the study. "Knowing there is a simple plan that, modified by evolution and development, gives rise to all brains has implications for researchers working to build an atlas of brain connections, for pursuing investigation of how the brain develops and for expanding theories of how the brain works."

It is well known that neural pathways in the spinal cord and brain stem are organized in three principal directions -- head to tail, side to side, and front to back -- all of which are either parallel or perpendicular to each other and reflect the basic patterns of embryonic development. But following those pathways into the brains of higher animals -- particularly into the cerebral cortex -- has been challenging because each pathway crosses many others within a small space. Previous studies that followed the movement of tracer chemicals injected into specific brain regions could track the progress of single pathways only and could not be used in human participants.

In the current study, Wedeen and his colleagues used diffusion spectrum MR imaging -- a technology he developed that reveals the orientation of all fibers that cross a particular point on a pathway -- coupled with mathematical analysis of all crossing or adjacent pathways in the brains of four species of non-human primates and in human volunteers. Wedeen's previous studies of animal brains had revealed parallel crossing pathways that appeared to form sheet-like structures, but it was not clear whether those structures were pervasive or only characterized a few brain systems.

The analysis revealed that all crossing or adjacent fibers were either perpendicular or parallel to the original pathway. Each of the crossing fibers was, in turn, crossed by its own perpendicular fibers, interwoven like the threads in a sheet of fabric, that defined box-like, three-dimensional curved grid structures. The same grid-like pattern was seen throughout the white matter of the brains of all four studied non-human primates -- rhesus monkeys, owl monkeys, marmosets and galagos -- and the human volunteers.

"I don't think anyone suspected the brain would have this sort of pervasive geometric pattern," Wedeen says. "Although our findings could be described as a new longitude and latitude for the brain, they're also leading us to an entirely new understanding of how and why the brain is organized the way it is. The old image of the brain as a tangle of thousands of discrete, unconnected wires didn't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. How could natural selection guide each of those wires into more efficient, advantageous configurations?

"The very simplicity of this grid structure is the reason why it can accomodate the random, gradual changes of evolution," he continues. "It's easier for a simple structure to change and adapt, whether we're talking about the big changes that occur across evolution or the changes that can occur during an individual's lifetime -- both the normal neuroplasticity associated with development and learning or the damage that results from injury or disease. A simple grid structure makes both evolutionary and develomental sense." Wedeen is an associate professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program.

Additional co-authors of the Science article are Ruopeng Wang and Guangping Dai of the Martinos Center; Douglas Rosene and Farzad Mortazavi, Boston University Medical Center; Patric Hagmann, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Jon Kaas, Vanderbilt University; and Wen-Yih Tseng, National Taiwan University College of Medicine. The study was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Human Connectome Project of the NIH.

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1. Van J. Wedeen, Douglas L. Rosene, Ruopeng Wang, Guangping Dai, Farzad Mortazavi, Patric Hagmann, Jon H. Kaas, and Wen-Yih I. Tseng. The Geometric Structure of the Brain Fiber Pathways. Science, 30 March 2012: 1628-1634 DOI: 10.1126/science.1215280

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ThreatMetrix Picks Up $18 Million To Expand Its Fight Against Cybercrime

The world of data breaches and other malicious online acts are on the rise -- with some $2 trillion lost to IT thefts and other cybercrimes annually, according to research from Goldman Sachs -- so we will continue to see a focus on companies that try to combat these threats. One case in point: today, ThreatMetrix, a provider of cybercrime prevention solutions, says that it has raised $18 million to continue to expand its business. The Series D round was led by August Capital, with existing investors Tenaya Capital, US Venture Partners and CM Capital also participating.

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