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·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

·August 1, 2011·2 min read

High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Smoking and Obesity in Middle Age May Shrink Brain, Damage Thinking

A new study suggests smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and being overweight in middle age may cause brain shrinkage and...

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·July 25, 2011·3 min read

Scientists Use New Technology to Show That Interrupted Sleep Impairs Memory in Mice

With the novel use of a technique that uses light to control brain cells, Stanford University researchers have shown that...

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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 13, 2011·4 min read

As Time Goes by, It Gets Tougher to ‘Just Remember This’

It’s something we just accept: the fact that the older we get, the more difficulty we seem to have remembering...

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·April 4, 2011·5 min read

Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition – Neuroscience Book Review

This is a Neuroscience News book review of Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition by Christopher M. Filley. Lately, neuroscience anatomy books...

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·March 4, 2011·4 min read

Neuronal Loss in ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Possibly Due to TDP-43 Loss

Research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has lead to new information about neuronal loss...

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·February 16, 2011·5 min read

Alzheimer’s Symptoms Reversed in Mice with Human Tau Genes

Alzheimer’s disease research has lead to important findings involving the tau gene and the possibility of reversing the disease’s progression....

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·January 25, 2011·3 min read

First Evidence on Effectiveness of Shunt Operations for Dementia

A study on the effects of shunt operations to treat dementia caused by white matter changes and hydrocephalus shows brain shunt operations improved performance in mental functions and walking.

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·September 22, 2010·3 min read

Can Career Choices Influence Dementia?

Correlating data from 588 patients diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD), researchers found that subjects with professions which related highly for verbal skills had greater tissue loss on the right hand side of the brain. By contrast, those whose professions required less aptitude for verbal skills, for example flight engineers, had more tissue damage to the left hand side of the brain.