Neurology

– These articles focus mainly on neurology research.
– What is neurology?
– Definition of neurology: a science involved in the study of the nervous systems, especially of the diseases and disorders affecting them.
– Neurology research can include information involving brain research, neurological disorders, medicine, brain cancer, peripheral nervous systems, central nervous systems, nerve damage, brain tumors, seizures, neurosurgery, electrophysiology, BMI, brain injuries, paralysis and spinal cord treatments.

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·May 15, 2012·5 min read

Sugar Makes You Stupid: Study Shows High Fructose Diet Sabotages Learning and Memory

This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory. [Corrections: The UCLA Newsroom has made...

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·May 15, 2012·5 min read

Surgeons Restore Some Hand Function to Quadriplegic Patient

Technique could help those with C6, C7 spinal cord injuries. Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis...

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·May 14, 2012·2 min read

Smoked Cannabis Reduces Some Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

Controlled trial shows improved spasticity, reduced pain after smoking medical marijuana. A clinical study of 30 adult patients with multiple...

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·May 9, 2012·2 min read

Response to First Drug Treatment May Signal Likelihood of Future Seizures in People with Epilepsy

How well people with newly diagnosed epilepsy respond to their first drug treatment may signal the likelihood that they will...

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·May 9, 2012·2 min read

Reduction of Excess Brain Activity Improves Memory in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

Research published by Cell Press in the May 10th issue of the journal Neuron, describes a potential new therapeutic approach...

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·May 8, 2012·2 min read

Female and Younger Athletes Take Longer to Overcome Concussions

New research out of Michigan State University reveals female athletes and younger athletes take longer to recover from concussions, findings...

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·May 7, 2012·3 min read

Deep Brain Stimulation May Hold Promise for Mild Alzheimer’s Disease

Small phase I study suggests ‘brain pacemaker’ could slow progression of AD A study on a handful of people with...

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·May 1, 2012·3 min read

Blood Pressure Drugs Linked with Lower PTSD Symptoms

Traumatized people who take a class of common blood pressure medications tend to have less severe post-traumatic stress symptoms, researchers...

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·April 23, 2012·4 min read

Nano-Devices that Cross Blood-Brain Barrier Open Door to Treatment of Cerebral Palsy, Other Neurologic Disorders

A team of scientists from Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have developed nano-devices that successfully cross the brain-blood barrier and deliver a...

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·April 20, 2012·3 min read

Single Neuron Observations Mark Steps in Alzheimer’s Disease

Multiple disease-related changes progress in parallel through distinct stages. Studying a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, neuroscientists at the Technische...