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Researchers iron out new role for serotonin
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have found a surprising link between brain iron levels and serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in neuropsychiatric conditions ranging from autism to major depression.
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Iron banded worms drying out of blood could be linked to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
Feb 09, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Warwick and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur have discovered that the mechanism that we rely on to transport iron safely through our blood stream can, in certain circumstances, ...
Iron is involved in prion disease-associated neuronal demise
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Imbalance of iron homeostasis is a common feature of prion disease-affected human, mouse, and hamster brains, according to a new study by Dr. Neena Singh and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...
Iron deficiency in womb may delay brain maturation in preemies
May 04, 2009 |
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Iron plays a large role in brain development in the womb, and new University of Rochester Medical Center research shows an iron deficiency may delay the development of auditory nervous system in preemies. This delay could ...
Rusty Worms in the Brain
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Iron is vital to human life; for example, it is a component of hemoglobin, the substance that makes our blood red and supplies our cells with oxygen. However, iron can also cause heavy damage; it is thought that iron deposits ...
Increased level of magnetic iron oxides found in Alzheimer's disease
Mar 12, 2008 |
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A team of scientists, led by Professor Jon Dobson, of Keele University in Staffordshire, UK, have found, for the first time, raised levels of magnetic iron oxides in the part of the brain affected by Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
Separating the brain's 'bad' from 'good' iron
Aug 23, 2007 |
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Duke University chemists are developing ways to bind up iron in the brain to combat the neurological devastation of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. The key is to weed out potentially destructive forms of iron that generate ...
Parkinson's disease: Iron accumulation to the point of demise
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine are the cerebral cells that most commonly die-off in Parkinson's disease. The cells in the so-called substantia nigra, which contain the dark pigment neuromelanin, are affected. ...
X-ray eyes bring us closer to early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease
Feb 14, 2009 |
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It is estimated that 4 million people world-wide are suffering from Parkinson's, a complex disease that varies greatly among affected individuals. Understanding the brain chemistry that leads to the onset ...
Brain lesions more common than previously thought
Mar 31, 2008 |
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New research shows cerebral microbleeds, which are lesions in the brain, are more common in people over 60 than previously thought. The study is published in the April 1, 2008, issue of Neurology.
Researchers publish MRI images of genes in action in the living brain
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Biologists have just confirmed what poets have known for centuries: eyes really are windows of the soul—or at least of the brain. In a new study published in the April 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal, Harva ...
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