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·December 14, 2011·2 min read

Scientists Provide Potential Explanation for Mechanisms of Associative Memory

Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that a chemical compound in the brain can weaken the synaptic connections...

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·December 10, 2011·2 min read

Researchers Design Alzheimer’s Antibodies

A Surprisingly Simple Method To Target Harmful Proteins Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to design...

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·November 10, 2011·3 min read

Parkinsonian Worms May Hold the Key to Identifying Drugs for Parkinson’s Disease

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a simple test, using dopamine-deficient worms, for identifying drugs that...

Neurology

·August 22, 2011·4 min read

Major ALS Breakthrough – Common Cause of All Forms of ALS Discovered

Researchers discover common cause of all forms of ALS. The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists and prevented development of effective therapies. Scientists weren’t even sure all its forms actually converged into a common disease process.

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·August 15, 2011·2 min read

Study Finds Enzyme Disrupting Nerve Cell Communication in Alzheimer’s Disease

A modified form of the enzyme Cdk5 is elevated in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients, where it triggers damage...

Neurology

·June 24, 2011·2 min read

Lithium Profoundly Prevents Brain Damage Associated with Parkinson’s Disease

Buck Institute research in mice moves into preclinical stage; working toward human trials Lithium profoundly prevents the aggregation of toxic...

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·June 23, 2011·2 min read

Competition Between Brain Cells Spurs Memory Circuit Development

From the Petri dish into a living organism, for the first time U-M scientists observe key aspects of how the...

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·June 13, 2011·4 min read

Brain Scan Identifies Patterns of Plaques and Tangles in Adults with Down Syndrome

In one of the first studies of its kind, UCLA researchers used a unique brain scan to assess the levels...

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·June 6, 2011·3 min read

UCSB Scientists Discover New Direction in Alzheimer’s Research

In what they are calling a new direction in the study of Alzheimer’s disease, UC Santa Barbara scientists have made...

Neuroscience

·May 20, 2011·2 min read

High Iron Or Copper Levels Block Brain-cell DNA Repair

No one knows the cause of most cases of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative disorders. But researchers have found that certain factors are consistently associated with these debilitating conditions. One is DNA damage by reactive oxygen species, highly destructive molecules usually formed as a byproduct of cellular respiration. Another is the presence of excessive levels of copper and iron in regions of the brain associated with the particular disorder.