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Alzheimer’s disease

·February 9, 2012·4 min read

Drug Quickly Reverses Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice

Case Western Reserve researchers discover FDA-approved drug rapidly clears amyloid from the brain and reverses cognitive defects. Neuroscientists at Case...

Neurology

·February 8, 2012·2 min read

Scientists Boost Memory by Stimulating Key Site in Brain

Mechanism holds potential for improving recall in dementia patients. Have you ever gone to the movies and forgotten where you...

Neurology

·February 6, 2012·2 min read

Increased Clumsiness in Former Welders

Welders who are exposed to manganese from welding fumes, risk developing increased clumsiness – and the result may remain decades...

Featured Genetics

·February 1, 2012·4 min read

Same Genes Linked to Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset...

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·January 27, 2012·4 min read

Making Memories Last

Stowers researchers discovered that a prion-like protein plays a key role in storing long-term memories. Memories in our brains are...

Featured Genetics Neuroethics Neurology Neuroscience Videos

·January 25, 2012·4 min read

Researchers Induce Alzheimer’s Neurons from Pluripotent Stem Cells

First-ever feat provides new method to understand cause of disease, develop drugs Led by researchers at the University of California,...

Neurology

·January 12, 2012·3 min read

Brain Region Can Signal Early Stage Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

Early changes to the inferior frontal junction observed in early dementias A key misplaced yet again? Unable to recall a...

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·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...

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·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...

Featured Genetics Neurology Neuroscience Neuroscience Videos

·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.