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Researchers Describe First Model of Mitochondrial Epilepsy

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 15, 2019

Researchers have developed a new model of mitochondrial epilepsy which captures specific features observed in patients. The new model may help provide better therapies and treatments for the condition.... Read More...

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Study of Retired NFL and NHL Players Doesn’t Find Evidence of Early Onset Dementia

Neuroscience NewsAugust 7, 2018

A new study, which involved a small sample of former professional athletes, found no evidence of early onset dementia.... Read More...

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Important New Piece in Huntington’s Disease Puzzle Identified

Neuroscience NewsJune 20, 2018

Researchers have identified a reduced exchange of glutamine between astrocytes and neurons in a new Huntington's disease study.... Read More...

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Can A Single Exercise Session Benefit Your Brain?

Neuroscience NewsJune 12, 2017

Summary: Researchers document not only the behavioral and cognitive effects of a single exercise session, but also the neurochemical and neurophysiological chan... Read More...

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Hunt for Huntington’s Cause Yields Clues

Neuroscience NewsNovember 10, 2016

Researchers reveal how a repeating nucleotide sequence in the gene for a mutant protein may trigger Huntington's disease.... Read More...

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Scientists Build a Better Cancer Drug to Pass Through Blood-Brain Barrier

Neuroscience NewsOctober 20, 2016

By altering DON, an anti-cancer drug cultivated from bacteria originally found in Peruvian soil over 70 years ago, scientists believe they have made a safer and more tolerable form of the drug.... Read More...

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New Approaches for Parkinson’s Treatment?

Neuroscience NewsMarch 2, 2016

Researchers are tracking the cause of premature neuron aging in Parkinson's patients with a defective DJ-1 gene.... Read More...

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Shedding Light on Protein Related Diseases

Neuroscience NewsOctober 30, 2015

Researchers report some proteins turn into liquid droplets on their way to becoming the toxic solids implicated in some neurodegenerative disorders.... Read More...

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Novel Regulator Inhibits Toxic Protein Aggregates in Huntington’s Disease

Neuroscience NewsApril 23, 2015

Researchers discover a novel factor which suppresses misfolding and aggregation of the huntingtin protein.... Read More...

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Disease in a Dish Approach Could Aid Huntington’s Disease Discovery

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 5, 2014

Researchers use iPSCs to create a disease in a dish model of Huntington's disease in transgenic nonhuman primates.... Read More...

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Drug Shows Early Promise in Treating Liver Failure-Related Seizures

Neuroscience NewsNovember 19, 2013

A new study reports a potential new treatment for seizures which often occur in children with genetic metabolic disorders and people with liver failure. ... Read More...

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New Mechanism for Human Gene Expression Discovered

Neuroscience NewsJuly 3, 2013

Researchers find a single gene which encodes two separate proteins from the same sequence of messenger RNA. The finding could provide new strategies for treating SCA6.... Read More...

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Researchers link new protein to Parkinson’s

Anxious people quicker to flee danger

When does clean eating become an unhealthy obsession? New findings on who is at risk

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Anxious people quicker to flee danger

When does clean eating become an unhealthy obsession? New findings on who is at risk

Brain network activity can improve in epilepsy patients after surgery

Neurology

Researchers link new protein to Parkinson’s

Brain network activity can improve in epilepsy patients after surgery

Patients with both schizophrenia and epilepsy die alarmingly early

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Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’

New AI Sees Like a Human, Filling in the Blanks

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Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’

New AI Sees Like a Human, Filling in the Blanks

Room for thought: Brain region that watches for walls identified

Psychology

Anxious people quicker to flee danger

When does clean eating become an unhealthy obsession? New findings on who is at risk

Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’

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Researchers Describe First Model of Mitochondrial Epilepsy

Study of Retired NFL and NHL Players Doesn’t Find Evidence of Early Onset Dementia

Important New Piece in Huntington’s Disease Puzzle Identified

Can A Single Exercise Session Benefit Your Brain?

Hunt for Huntington’s Cause Yields Clues

Scientists Build a Better Cancer Drug to Pass Through Blood-Brain Barrier

New Approaches for Parkinson’s Treatment?

Shedding Light on Protein Related Diseases

Novel Regulator Inhibits Toxic Protein Aggregates in Huntington’s Disease

Disease in a Dish Approach Could Aid Huntington’s Disease Discovery

Drug Shows Early Promise in Treating Liver Failure-Related Seizures

New Mechanism for Human Gene Expression Discovered