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Finding ways to detect and treat Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 17 14
Alzheimer’s disease has long been marked by progress - but not the kind of progress the medical community seeks. It is the most…
Why does the brain remember dreams?
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 17 14
Some people recall a dream every morning, whereas others rarely recall one. A team led by Perrine Ruby, an Inserm Research Fellow at the…
Meditation might reduce workplace stress
• Neurology • Feb 14 14
Regular doses of meditation might prevent work-related stress and burnout, a small U.S. study suggests.
Teachers and support staff working at a school for…
Sedation before nerve block increases risk, not pain relief
• Neurology • • Pain • Feb 13 14
New research suggests that sedating patients before a nerve block needed to diagnose or treat chronic pain increases costs, risks and unnecessary surgeries, and…
Rett syndrome genetic variants now available for advance testing, diagnosis & research
• Children's Health • • Genetics • • Neurology • Feb 06 14
Despite the identification of gene mutations in methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) being linked to Rett syndrome (RS), research has been hindered by…
Early treatment with AED reduces duration of febrile seizures
• Children's Health • • Epilepsy • • Neurology • Feb 05 14
New research shows that children with febrile status epilepticus (FSE) who receive earlier treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) experience a reduction in the duration…
Potential biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 01 14
In a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience, Bess Frost, PhD, and co-authors, identify abnormal expression of genes, resulting from DNA relaxation, that…
Study Shows Autistic Brains Create More Information at Rest
• Brain • • Neurology • Feb 01 14
New research from Case Western Reserve University and University of Toronto neuroscientists finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest…
How does the brain create sequences?
• Brain • • Neurology • Jan 26 14
When you learn how to play the piano, first you have to learn notes, scales and chords and only then will you be able…
Fast eye movements: A possible indicator of more impulsive decision-making
• Neurology • Jan 21 14
Using a simple study of eye movements, Johns Hopkins scientists report evidence that people who are less patient tend to move their eyes with…
Researchers identify innate channel that protects against pain
• Neurology • • Pain • Jan 21 14
Scientists have identified a channel present in many pain detecting sensory neurons that acts as a ‘brake’, limiting spontaneous pain. It is hoped that…
Study finds decreased life expectancy for multiple sclerosis patients
• Neurology • Jan 21 14
The first large scale study in the U.S. on the mortality of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been published and provides new information…
Vitamin D status associated with multiple sclerosis activity, progression
• Neurology • Jan 20 14
Vitamin D status appears to be associated with reduced disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and a slower rate of disease progression,…
Toddlers’ aggression is strongly associated with genetic factors
• Children's Health • • Genetics • • Neurology • Jan 20 14
The development of physical aggression in toddlers is strongly associated genetic factors and to a lesser degree with the environment, according to a new…
Cleveland Clinic identifies mechanism in Alzheimer’s-related memory loss
• Brain • • Neurology • Jan 19 14
Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified a protein in the brain that plays a critical role in the memory loss seen in Alzheimer’s patients, according…
Brain regions ‘tune’ activity to enable attention
• Brain • • Neurology • Jan 15 14
The brain appears to synchronize the activity of different brain regions to make it possible for a person to pay attention or concentrate on…
Benefits of cognitive training can last 10 years in older adults
• Brain • • Aging and Gerontology • • Neurology • Jan 13 14
Exercises meant to boost mental sharpness can benefit older adults as many as 10 years after they received the cognitive training, researchers said…
Mid-life job stress linked to later health problems
• Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 26 13
More strain at work might mean more illness in old age, according to a new study from Finland. The study found both physical and…
Are concussions related to Alzheimer’s disease?
• Brain • • Neurology • Dec 26 13
A new study suggests that a history of concussion involving at least a momentary loss of consciousness may be related to the buildup of…
Molecular markers used for assessment of early sciatic nerve injury
• Neurology • Dec 26 13
Substance P and calcitonin gene-related peptide are the main neuropeptides in peripheral nerve ganglia, which can anterogradely transmit nociceptive information to the central nervous…
Study shows Where Alzheimer’s starts and how it spreads
• Brain • • Neurology • Dec 22 13
Using high-resolution functional MRI (fMRI) imaging in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and in mouse models of the disease, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers…
Preferable treatment for MS found in allogenic bone marrow stem cells
• Neurology • Dec 18 13
Multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory autoimmune disease affecting more than one million people worldwide, is caused by an immune reaction to myelin proteins, the…
Self-worth boosts ability to overcome poverty
• Brain • • Neurology • • Public Health • Dec 17 13
For people in poverty, remembering better times - such as past success - improves brain functioning by several IQ points and increases their willingness…
Molecular sensor detects early signs of multiple sclerosis, Gladstone study finds
• Neurology • Dec 03 13
For some, the disease multiple sclerosis (MS) attacks its victims slowly and progressively over a period of many years. For others, it strikes without…
Do sports concussions really cause chronic traumatic encephalopathy?
• Brain • • Neurology • • Trauma & Injuries • Dec 03 13
It’s been widely reported that football and other contact sports increase the risk of a debilitating neurological condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).