A Toxin That Travels From Stomach to Brain May Trigger Parkinson’s
A new study reports the combination of a toxic herbicide and lectins may trigger Parkinsonism after the toxins travel from the stomach to the brain.... Read More...
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Pathway for Alzheimer’s Degeneration Discovered
Researchers have developed a new neuroimaging method to track neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease. The method helped uncover a new pathway for how degeneration spreads from one brain region to another.... Read More...
Waking Up is Hard to Do: Prefrontal Cortex Implicated in Consciousness
A new study reveals the prefrontal cortex may play a role in coordinating the level of consciousness through the cholinergic system.... Read More...
Where Brain Cells Get Their Information May Determine Their Roles in Diseases
Researchers have mapped the relationship of two types of neurons implicated in psychiatric and movement disorder. The findings could lead to new treatments for a range of disorders from depression to Parkinson's disease.... Read More...
Prenatal Choline Intake Increases Gray and White Matter: Piglet Study
Researchers report piglets of mothers who were fed a choline rich diet had increased white and gray matter in the brain.... Read More...
ADHD Drug Increases Glutamate and Positive Emotion in Healthy People
A new study reveals a psychostimulant prescribed for ADHD increases glutamate in the brains of healthy people, resulting in more positive emotions.... Read More...
Domino Effect: Individual Damaged Neuron Types Cause Neurodegenerative Diseases
Age related neurodegeneration may be delayed by preventing oxidative damage in a few neuron types, researchers report.... Read More...
Alzheimer’s Drug Repairs Brain Damage After Alcohol Binges: Rat Study
Researchers report a drug used to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease may help to reverse memory and learning problems in teens who binge drink.... Read More...
Neuron Loss Very Limited in Alzheimer’s
A new study challenges conventional belief about Alzheimer's, finding very minor neuronal and synaptic loss in patients at various stages of the disease.... Read More...
Eating More Foods with Choline During Pregnancy Boosts Baby’s Brain
A new study provides further evidence that increasing choline consumption during pregnancy has cognitive benefits for children.... Read More...
Brain Stem Changes Identified in Parkinson’s
A new study reveals Parkinson's patients have more copies of mitochondrial DNA in the brain stem, leading to increased cell death within that area.... Read More...
Smell Test Challenge Suggests Clinical Benefit for Some Before Development of Alzheimer’s
Columbia researchers have identified a way in which to determine if a patient with MCI may respond to cholinesterase inhibitors.... Read More...