Archive for the ‘Neurology / Neuroscience’ Category
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Patients recently diagnosed with schizophrenia have abnormalities in a specific part of the brain's white matter. The study, published this month in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, suggests that brain signals passing through the temporal lobe may get "crossed" and lead to some of the symptoms associated with schizophrenia. The research was ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Uncover how the brains of infants distinguish differences in sounds and it may become possible to correct language problems even before children start to speak, sparing them the difficulties that come from struggling with language.New studies conducted by Professor of Neuroscience April Benasich and her Infancy Studies Laboratory at Rutgers ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation released the following statement from its executive director and CEO, Chuck Mohan, in light of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee's (NVAC) meeting of its Vaccine Safety Working Group and recent published reports of possible links between mitochondrial disorders and autism. "Recent published ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Machado Joseph disease (MJD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with deposits of an aberrant form of the protein ataxin-3 in the brain. The disease is also fatal and the most common hereditary motor neurodegenerative disease in many countries. Despite this, not much is known about MJD including the neurological basis ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) will honor three of its legendary physician-scientists for their internationally recognized contributions to medicine at its fifth annual Legends dinner celebration May 1 at Trump National Golf Club.Dominic DeCristofaro, M.D., Grant B. Hieshima, M.D., and Jerrold Turner, M.D., ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Come summer, we will once again marvel at the amazing athletic skills of Olympic athletes while in fact, the simple act of walking is no less remarkable. Just to prevent us from toppling over, the neuromuscular circuitry that controls all bodily movements relies on constant sensory feedback from the periphery ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
If you are getting forgetful as you get older, then a research team from the University of Reading and the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England may have good news for you.They have found that phytochemical-rich foods, such as blueberries, are effective at reversing age-related deficits in ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The ability of brain cells to take in substances from their surface is essential to the production of a key ingredient in Alzheimer's brain plaques, neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned.The researchers used a drug to shut down the intake process, known as endocytosis, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A study supervised by Universite Laval researchers Gina Muckle and Eric Dewailly reveals that omega-3 intake during the last months of pregnancy boosts an infant's sensory, cognitive, and motor development. The details of this finding are published in a recent edition of the Journal of Pediatrics.To come to this conclusion, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
High cholesterol levels are considered to be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease including stroke. Therefore, many cholesterol lowering drugs have been developed by pharmaceutical companies in recent years. One class of these drugs, statins, has been found to reduce the incidence of stroke and progression of Alzheimer's disease when ...
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