News tagged with brain disease
Virtual Reality May Help Arm Minds for Combat
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth received a federal grant to fund research examining brain performance enhancement in America’s fighting men and women through the use of state-of-the-art ...
Gene therapy technique slows ALD brain disease
Nov 05, 2009 |
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A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found. These findings appear in the 6 November 2009 issue ...
Unlocking mysteries of the brain with PET
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Inflammatory response of brain cells—as indicated by a molecular imaging technique—could tell researchers more about why certain neurologic disorders, such as migraine headaches and psychosis in schizophrenic patients, occur ...
Member of NFL Hall of Fame diagnosed with degenerative brain disease
Oct 28, 2009 |
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The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that a recently deceased member of the NFL Hall of Fame suffered from the degenerative brain disease ...
Study shows how to boost value of Alzheimer's-fighting compounds
Aug 17, 2009 |
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The polyphenols found in red wine are thought to help prevent Alzheimer's disease, and new research from Purdue University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine has shown that some of those compounds in fact reach the brain.
Study discovers link in childhood brain disease research
Jun 16, 2009 |
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University of Manchester scientists at the National Institute for Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) have discovered a new link between a rare childhood disorder and a common immune system disease.
Shrinking in hippocampus area of brain precedes Alzheimer's disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 16, 2009 |
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People who have lost brain cells in the hippocampus area of the brain are more likely to develop dementia, according to a study published in the March 17, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the Americ ...
Patients starting Parkinson's drug rasagiline earlier do better
Jan 26, 2009 |
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There is hope that the drug rasagiline can do what no other medication for Parkinson's disease now does -- slow the progression of a devastating degenerative brain disease that eventually robs people of their ability to move ...
Genetic mutation causes familial susceptibility for degenerative brain disease
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Mutation of a gene that helps proteins migrate in and out of the cell's genetic command center - the nucleus - puts some families at higher risk for the degenerative brain disease acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE).
New insight into Alzheimer’s disease
Dec 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new molecule important in a part of the memory that allows recognition of people has been identified by researchers at the University of Bristol. This type of memory is impaired at an early ...
New research identifies key contributor to Alzheimer's disease process
Nov 14, 2008 |
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Walter J. Lukiw, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the lead author of a paper identifying, for the first time, a specific function of a fragment of ribonucleic ...
How the APOE gene can modify your risk for Alzheimer's disease
Nov 13, 2008 |
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One of the hallmarks of the brain of an individual with Alzheimer disease is the accumulation of amyloid-beta peptide (A-beta), something that is believed to be toxic to many brain cells (specifically neurons) and to therefore ...
Pittsburgh Compound B finds Alzheimer's-associated plaques in symptom-free older adults
Nov 10, 2008 |
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In the largest study of its kind, Pittsburgh Compound B, an imaging agent that could facilitate the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, has been used to identify amyloid deposition in the brains of clinically older adults.
New methods identify and manipulate 'newborn' cells in animal model of Parkinson's disease
Sep 03, 2008 |
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When cells in the brain are lost through disease or injury, neighboring cells begin to divide and multiply, but only a few areas in the brain are able to produce new neurons. Patients with Parkinson's disease suffer degeneration ...
Biological marker for Alzheimer's holds promise for earlier diagnosis and treatment
Jul 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada have found clear evidence that increases in the size of the brain ventricles are directly associated with cognitive impairment ...
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