Posts Tagged ‘Neurology’
Cognitive Effect of Head Impacts on Student Athletes
Dartmouth researchers investigate the cognitive effects of athlete head impacts. Dartmouth faculty and students played prominent roles in a recent study on the cognitive effects of head impacts among student athletes. Tested at the beginning and end of one season, 22 [Read More]
Response to First Drug Treatment May Signal Likelihood of Future Seizures in People with Epilepsy
How well people with newly diagnosed epilepsy respond to their first drug treatment may signal the likelihood that they will continue to have more seizures, according to a study published in the May 9, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American [Read More]
Excessive Worrying May Have Co-evolved with Intelligence
What is usually seen as pathology may aid survival of the species. Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other institutions. Jeremy Coplan, MD, professor of [Read More]
Scientists Redraw the Blueprint of the Body’s Biological Clock
Discovery of key link between circadian rhythms and metabolism may lead to new therapies for sleep disorders and diabetes. The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep [Read More]
Researchers Help Reveal Complex Role of Genes in Autism
Multi-center study hones in on two genes as likely risk factors. Mutations in hundreds of genes involved in wiring the brain may contribute to the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). That is one of the rather daunting conclusions of a paper published in the [Read More]
Former Professional Baseball Pitcher Now Keeps His Strike Zone in Proteins
Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball card, but University of Massachusetts Amherst doctoral student Elih M. Velazquez-Delgado, who gave up a pitching career for science, does. Now the only stats he cares about are experimental data, because, he [Read More]
Study Raises Hopes for Treatment of Stroke
Therapy to mend parts of the brain damaged by strokes has moved a step closer, thanks to research at Monash University’s Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) and the Florey Neuroscience Institutes (FNI). Scientists, James Bourne and Jihane Homman-Ludiye, of [Read More]
Chronic Stress Spawns Protein Aggregates Linked to Alzheimer’s
Repeated stress triggers the production and accumulation of insoluble tau protein aggregates inside the brain cells of mice, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new study published in the March 26 Online Early Edition of [Read More]
New Hope for Treating Alzheimer’s Disease: A Role for the FKBP52 Protein
New research in humans published today reveals that the so-called FKBP52 protein may prevent the Tau protein from turning pathogenic. This may prove significant for the development of new Alzheimer’s drugs and for detecting the disease before the onset of clinical [Read More]
Genetic Manipulation Boosts Growth of Brain Cells Linked to Learning, Enhances Effects of Antidepressants
Southwestern Medical Center investigators have identified a genetic manipulation that increases the development of neurons in the brain during aging and enhances the effect of antidepressant drugs. The research finds that deleting the Nf1 gene in mice results in [Read More]
