Posts Tagged ‘mental health’
Wiring The Brain: Making Connections – International Conference in Ireland
Wiring The Brain: Making Connections is an international conference that will be held in Powerscourt, County Wicklow, Ireland from April 12-15, 2011. The conference will explore how brain connectivity is established, what happens to circuit and network function when the [Read More]
World Autism Awareness Day – Share the Facts About Autism Spectrum Disorders
World Autism Awareness Day is here. April 2, 2011 marks the fourth annual World Autism Awareness Day. To help build awareness, NeuroscienceNews.com provides some useful information to become informed about what most know simply as “autism”. We have provided [Read More]
Could Training the Brain’ Help Children with Tourette Syndrome?
Children with Tourette syndrome could benefit from behavioural therapy to reduce their symptoms, according to a new brain imaging study. Researchers at The University of Nottingham discovered that the brains of children with Tourette syndrome (TS) develop in a unique way [Read More]
Alzheimer’s Symptoms Reversed in Mice with Human Tau Genes
Alzheimer’s disease research has lead to important findings involving the tau gene and the possibility of reversing the disease’s progression. The researchers used transgenic mice with two different human tau gene variants. One variant leads to tau proteins that [Read More]
The Fearless SM: Woman Missing Amygdala
A woman with bilateral damage relatively restricted to the amygdala is the subject of a case study reported today. SM, as she will be known to the public, seems able to experience emotions such as happiness and sadness normally, but shows no signs of fear. [Read More]
Longdaysin Can Change Biological Clock
A compound named longdaysin can be used to control the biological clock, new research shows. Researchers were able to lengthen the biological clock of larval zebra fish over ten hours by manipulating levels of longdaysin. These new findings could help lead to better [Read More]
Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome – FXTAS Breakthrough
Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) research shows that inhibiting histone acetylation could help control expression of toxic mRNA. FXTAS symptoms are mainly caused by overproduction of toxic mRNA, making this research very important for researchers working with FXTAS. [Read More]
World’s First Basic Research Institute for Childhood Neurological Diseases Opens
The world's first basic research institute for childhood neurological diseases opened in Houston, Texas and is part of the Texas Children's Hospital. Some of the research the new research insitute will focus on includes childhood neurological diseases such as autism, [Read More]
Beta-amyloid Removal Problems May Underlie Alzheimer’s Disease
The removal of beta-amyloid is not efficient in late-onset Alzheimer's disease sufferers. These new findings could help produce better early diagnostic tests and therapies for Alzheimer's disease and related research. [Read More]
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting – SFN Neuroscience 2010
The Society for Neuroscience 40th Annual Meeting : Neuroscience 2010 will be held in San Diego, California, USA on November 13 - 17, 2010. The official SFN annual meeting events will be held at the San Diego Convention Center. [Read More]
