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Thanks for the memories
• Brain • • Neurology • Jun 30 11
How easy is it to falsify memory? New research at the Weizmann Institute shows that a bit of social pressure may be all that…
Restoring Smiles in Children with Permanent Facial Paralysis
• Cosmetics • • Neurology • • Public Health • Jun 29 11
A half-paralyzed face with a motionless, drooping side can be alarming at any age, but when it occurs in a child it can be…
Study finds pregnancy safe in multiple sclerosis
• Neurology • Jun 27 11
Canadian researchers have found that maternal multiple sclerosis (MS) is generally not associated with adverse delivery outcomes or risk to their offspring. Full findings…
Rare genetic disorder provides unique insight into Parkinson’s disease
• Genetics • • Neurology • Jun 23 11
Massachusetts General Hospital investigators appear to have found the mechanism behind a previously reported link between the rare genetic condition Gaucher disease and the…
New application for iPhone may support monitoring and research on Parkinson’s disease
• Neurology • Jun 23 11
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a novel iPhone application that may enable persons with Parkinson’s disease and certain other…
Possible susceptibility genes found in neurodegenerative disorder
• Genetics • • Neurology • Jun 20 11
An international research team, co-led by scientists at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida, have discovered three potential susceptibility genes for development of progressive supranuclear…
Several methods for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease developed by European scientists
• Brain • • Neurology • Jun 15 11
PredictAD is an EU-funded research project that develops objective and efficient methods for enabling earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Diagnosis requires a holistic view…
Researchers identify why dopamine replacement therapy has a paradoxical effect on cognition
• Brain • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jun 15 11
Dopamine replacement therapy, which is used to manage motor symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease, can, at times, adversely affect cognition. Dr. Oury Monchi, Ph.…
Study finds shingles may be related to elevated risk of multiple sclerosis
• Neurology • Jun 08 11
Taiwanese investigators have found that there can be a significantly higher risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) occurring in the year following a shingles, or…
Stress doesn’t raise risk of MS: study
• Neurology • May 31 11
Having a stressful home or work environment doesn’t make a person more likely to develop multiple sclerosis, hints a large new study.
Previous research…
Arrowing in on Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • May 31 11
Recently the number of genes known to be associated with Alzheimer’s disease has increased from four to eight, including the MS4A gene cluster on…
Can stress increase the risk of multiple sclerosis?
• Neurology • May 31 11
Contrary to earlier reports, a new study finds that stress does not appear to increase a person’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The…
Noncoding RNA may promote Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • May 31 11
Researchers pinpoint a small RNA that spurs cells to manufacture a particular splice variant of a key neuronal protein, potentially promoting Alzheimer’s disease (AD)…
Low Vitamin D Levels Seen as Multiple Sclerosis Risk for African Americans, UCSF Study Finds
• Neurology • May 30 11
In the first major study exploring the connection between vitamin D and multiple sclerosis in African Americans, a team of scientists at the University…
Stress may increase risk for Alzheimer’s disease
• Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • May 26 11
Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that…
New protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • May 24 11
After decades of studying the pathological process that wipes out large volumes of memory, scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research discovered a…
What makes an image memorable?
• Brain • • Neurology • May 24 11
Next time you go on vacation, you may want to think twice before shooting hundreds of photos of that scenic mountain or lake.
A…
Test could detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier than previously possible
• Brain • • Neurology • May 22 11
A new study has revealed the possibility of using a simple test for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, enabling the condition to be…
Ulcer bacteria may contribute to development of Parkinson’s disease
• Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • May 22 11
“Infection of late middle-aged mice with a particular strain of the bacteria Helicobacter pylori results in development of Parkinson’s disease symptoms after 3-5 months,”…
Viagra® could reduce multiple sclerosis symptoms
• Neurology • May 19 11
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona researchers have discovered that Viagra® drastically reduces multiple sclerosis symptoms in animal models with the disease. The research, published in…
A virus similar to herpes could be a risk factor for multiple sclerosis
• Neurology • May 17 11
At present, while there is no cause known for this condition, patients with MS seem to have genetic vulnerability to certain environmental factors that…
New X-ray method for understanding brain disorders better
• Brain • • Neurology • May 12 11
Researchers including members from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new method for making detailed X-ray images of…
Mild obesity appears to improve survival in ALS patients
• Neurology • • Obesity • May 11 11
Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, may be an exception to the rule that being overweight is a…
Less than half of patients with MS continually adhere to drug therapies for treatment: Study
• Neurology • May 10 11
Disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) are injected medications used to slow the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), and have been shown to reduce the frequency and…
Drinking coffee, having sex are triggers that raise rupture risks for brain aneurysm
• Brain • • Dieting • • Neurology • • Stroke • May 05 11
From drinking coffee to having sex to blowing your nose, you could temporarily raise your risk of rupturing a brain aneurysm - and suffering…