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Brain Cancer Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·April 11, 2014·2 min read

Brain Cell Find Points to New Brain Cancer Therapies

A recent study provides new understanding of the role Lin28a plays in forming neurons. The findings could help develop new treatments for brain cancer and other neurological disorders.

Featured Psychology

·April 11, 2014·4 min read

Protein Researchers Closing in on the Mystery of Schizophrenia

In an attempt to understand what happens in the brain of schizophrenics, researchers analysed proteins in the brains of rats who had been given the hallucinogen PCP.

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Autism Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·April 11, 2014·5 min read

Splice Variants Reveal Connections Among Autism Genes

Researchers reveal proteins involved in autism interact with more partners than previously thought.

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Featured Genetics Neurology

·April 10, 2014·4 min read

Too Much Protein May Kill Brain Cells as Parkinson’s Progresses

Researchers discover how the most common genetic cause of PD kills neurons. The findings could assist in monitoring the disease progression and provide new treatment options.

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Featured Psychology

·April 10, 2014·2 min read

Researchers Search for Earliest Roots of Psychiatric Disorders

A new study reports newborns, whose mothers were exposed to a variety of environmental stressors while pregnant, could be susceptible to psychiatric disorders later in life.

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Brain Cancer Featured Neurology

·April 9, 2014·6 min read

Blocking DNA Repair Mechanisms Could Improve Radiation Therapy for Brain Cancer

Researchers suggest blocking DNA repair mechanisms could improve radiation therapy for glioblastoma brain cancer.

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Featured Neurology

·April 9, 2014·2 min read

Bone Marrow Stem Cells Show Promise in Stroke Treatment

Researchers find stem cells processed from bone marrow could be beneficial for stroke recovery.

This is an MRI brain scan of a person with ALS.

Featured Neurology

·April 3, 2014·6 min read

New Hope for Treating ALS

Researchers discover a recently approved epilepsy medication could also help to treat ALS.

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Featured Genetics Neurology

·April 3, 2014·4 min read

Study Helps Unravel the Tangled Origin of ALS

Researchers pinpoint an error in protein formation which could be the root of ALS.

Featured Neurology

·April 2, 2014·6 min read

A Critical Window into the Developing Human Brain

New research details where genes are turned on in the brain during pregnancy. The study provides new insight into diseases such as autism and the origins of human uniqueness.