‘Neurology’ Neuroscience Articles
Clinical Trial: Nicotine Patch Shows Benefits in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Using a nicotine patch may help improve mild memory loss in older adults, according to a study published in the January 10, 2012, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Nicotine has been shown to improve cognitive performance [Read More]
Hopes for Reversing Age-Associated Effects in MS Patients
Proof of principle study suggests the age-associated decline of the remyelination process is reversible New research highlights the possibility of reversing ageing in the central nervous system for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The study is published today, 06 January, [Read More]
Scripps Research Scientists Discover a Brain Cell Malfunction in Schizophrenia
The findings could point the way to new therapies. Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that DNA stays too tightly wound in certain brain cells of schizophrenic subjects. The findings suggest that drugs already in development for other diseases might [Read More]
How Skin is Wired for Touch
Compared to our other senses, scientists don’t know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch. Now, research reported in the December 23rd issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, provides the first picture of how specialized neurons feel [Read More]
UT Health Researchers Link Multiple Sclerosis to Different Area of Brain
Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis affects an area of the brain that controls cognitive, sensory and motor functioning apart from the disabling damage caused by the [Read More]
Listen Up: Abnormality in Auditory Processing Underlies Dyslexia
People with dyslexia often struggle with the ability to accurately decode and identify what they read. Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption and how it interferes with reading [Read More]
UCLA Neuroscientists Demonstrate Crucial Advances in Brain Reading
Innovative machine learning method anticipates neurocognitive changes, similar to predictive text-entry for cell phones, internet search engines At UCLA’s Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology, researchers use functional MRI brain scans to observe brain [Read More]
Babies Remember Even as They Seem to Forget
Fifteen years ago, textbooks on human development stated that babies 6 months of age or younger had no sense of “object permanence” – the psychological term that describes an infant’s belief that an object still exists even when it is out of sight. That [Read More]
New Research Identifies Changes in Spinal Cord Compression
Research from The University of Western Ontario is now looking beyond spinal cord injuries in patients to better understand what is happening in the brain. While spinal degeneration is an unavoidable part of aging, for some it leads to compression of the spinal cord, which [Read More]
A Novel Mechanism Regulating Stress is Identified
Neuroscience researchers from Tufts identify potential target for drug therapy for wide range of disorders associated with stress Neuroscience researchers from Tufts have demonstrated, for the first time, that the physiological response to stress depends on neurosteroids [Read More]
