- Former NFL Star's Son Tackles Nerve Disorder With Help From Team By : Neuroscience News
During the nearly two decades Lomas Brown Jr. was an offensive tackle in the National Football League, he used his 6'4" frame to protect quarterbacks from getting sacked and to create a path for running backs by knocking down defenders. - Uses For Botulinum Toxin - A Miracle Poison - Continue To Grow By : Neuroscience News
First, it was infamous as a deadly form of food poison. Then, fame came as a temporary remedy for wrinkles. Now, botulinum toxin is considered the "miracle poison" and used for an increasing number of medical conditions. - Learning During Sleep? By : Neuroscience News
If I can't remember this morning where I put my car keys last night, it's due to my memory failing me again. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have been investigating how memories might be consolidated. Their new study offers the hitherto strongest proof that new information is transferred between the hippocampus, the short term memory area, and the cerebral cortex during sleep. - New Approach Targets Brain Cancer Stem Cells By : Neuroscience News
A Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientist at the University of Queensland has co-discovered a much-needed new approach to treating brain tumours.
In research published in Nature, QBI's Professor Brent Reynolds together with colleagues in Italy and USA have identified a protein that dramatically inhibits brain cancer stem cells in laboratory animals. - New Research Sheds Light On Stroke Development By : Neuroscience News
A new study examines the usefulness of diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), a process of scanning and mapping the brain, in establishing the relationship between abnormalities in the cardiovascular system and stroke. This research is helping to determine how a stroke develops. The study is published in current issue of Journal of Neuroimaging. - Cephalon Provides Update Related To Final NUVIGIL(TM) Labeling By : Neuroscience News
Cephalon, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH) announced today that the Division of Neurology Products of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed the company that it is continuing to evaluate the single case of serious rash reported in a SPARLON(TM) (modafinil) Tablets [C-IV] clinical study. - Memory Pharmaceuticals Presents Data For MEM 3454 And MEM 1003 At The American College By : Neuroscience News
Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: MEMY) today announced that it had presented new preclinical data for its lead compounds, MEM 3454 and MEM 1003, at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Annual Meeting, held in Hollywood, Florida, from December 3-7, 2006. - 'Nature' Paper Provides New Insights Into The Brain's Structural And Cellular Complexity By : Neuroscience News
he Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization founded by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Jody Allen Patton, today announced a series of key findings that shed light on the structural and cellular complexity of the brain. - Brain Tumors Paralyze The Immune System - First Preclinical Trails With RNA-Interference To Lift Blo By : Neuroscience News
Gliomas are extremely malignant and fast growing tumors. Not only do they secrete molecules to secure their blood supply by generating new blood vessels, they are also able to secrete messenger molecules to protect themselves against attacks by the immune system. - The Link Between A Rare Genetic Disorder And Musical Talent By : Neuroscience News
Gloria Lenhoff, age 51, can't make change for a dollar, or subtract five from twelve, or tell left from right. She can't cross the street alone, or write her name legibly, or read music. Her IQ is 55. But Gloria Lenhoff can sing like few people in the world can sing, with a classically trained lyric soprano and a repertoire of hundreds of songs in Italian, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Macedonian, Korean, Hungarian, Yiddish, and many other languages. - Senator Barack Obama Presents The Wings Of Hope Medal To Board President Of The American Brain Tumor By : Neuroscience News
The Midwest Children's Brain Tumor Center at Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital awarded John Hipchen, President of the Board of Directors of the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA), the Center's Wings of Hope Medal. - Regulatory Pathway In Brain Development Possible Basis For Malformations By : Neuroscience News
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have identified a genetic regulator of brain development that sheds new light on how immature neural cells choose between proliferation and differentiation. Defects in regulating this choice result in brain malformations. - Controlling Confusion -- Researchers Make Insight Into Memory, Forgetting By : Neuroscience News
Why do we forget? Do memories decay on their own, or are they harmed by interference from similar memories? Using a technique called "transcranial magnetic stimulation" (TMS), brain researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may have found the answer. - Leading Neurobiologist Receives Barbara Turnbull Award For Contribution To Spinal Cord Research By : Neuroscience News
Dr. Pierre Drapeau, a researcher funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and professor and chairman of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Universite de Montreal, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Barbara Turnbull Award for Spinal Cord Research. - 'Mind Wars -- Brain Research And National Defense' By : Neuroscience News
Jonathan Moreno discusses his new book, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Nov. 2006/Dana Press) in a public lecture featuring Jennifer Bard, Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law Program, Texas Tech University; and, Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., - 'Pony Express' Protein Shown To Rally Biological Clock By : Neuroscience News
A biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his collaborators have identified the factor in mammalian brain cells that keeps cells in synchrony so that functions like the wake-sleep cycle, hormone secretion and loco motor behaviors are coordinated daily over a 24-hour period. - Leading Montreal Neurobiologist Receives Barbara Turnbull Award For Spinal Cord Research By : Neuroscience News
The Barbara Turnbull Foundation, NeuroScience Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) award the 2006 Barbara Turnbull Award for Spinal Cord Research to Dr. Pierre Drapeau at the Universite de Montreal. - First International Gene Screen For Typical ALS Is On Track By : Neuroscience News
The largest-scale search for genes that underlie sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common form of the disease - Chronic Back Pain Linked To Changes In The Brain By : Neuroscience News
A German research team using a specialized imaging technique revealed that individuals suffering from chronic low back pain also had microstructural changes in their brains. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). - A Stunning New Look At Deja Vu By : Neuroscience News
A blind man suffering deja vu. It sounds like a contradiction in terms - but the first case study of its kind has turned the whole theory of deja vu on its head. - Tales Of The Unexpected: How The Brain Detects Novelty By : Neuroscience News
When you sit down to watch a DVD of your favourite film, the chances are that you are able to predict the exact sequence of events that is about to unfold. - Tales Of The Unexpected: How The Brain Detects Novelty By : Neuroscience News
When you sit down to watch a DVD of your favourite film, the chances are that you are able to predict the exact sequence of events that is about to unfold. - Study Of Language Use In Children Suggests Sex Influences How Brain Processes Words By : Neuroscience News
Boys and girls tend to use different parts of their brains to process some basic aspects of grammar, according to the first study of its kind, suggesting that sex is an important factor in the acquisition and use of language - Brains Respond Better To Name Brands, MRI Shows By : Neuroscience News
Your brain may be determining what car you buy before you've even taken a test drive. A new study gauging the brain's response to product branding has found that strong brands elicit strong activity in our brains. - Springer Launches New Journal Cognitive Neurodynamics By : Neuroscience News
A new journal in the biomedical sciences, Cognitive Neurodynamics, will be launched by Springer in 2007. With this new addition to the publishing program, Springer will provide a journal that bridges the gap between theoretical and applied neurosciences without preference for pure conceptual, mathematical or computational models. - Uroplasty, Inc. And CL Medical Announce FDA Clearance Of I-Stop(TM) TOMS Sling For Treatment Of Male By : Nephrology News
Uroplasty, Inc. (Amex: UPI) and CL Medical of Lyon, France announced that CL Medical has received a 510(k) premarket clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its I-Stop(TM) TOMS sling for treatment of male stress urinary incontinence (SUI). - Blame Myelin For Many Neuropsychiatric Disorders By : Neuroscience News
What makes the human brain unique? Of the many explanations that can be offered, one that doesn't come readily to mind is -- myelin. - Spinning A New Yarn: Silicone Fibers With Living Organisms By : Neuroscience News
In a feat once as unlikely as the miller's daughter of fairytale fame spinning straw into gold, scientists in the United Kingdom have spun fine threads of biocompatible silicone that contain living human brain cells. The cells remained alive and capable of growth afterward, they say. - Adult Neurogenesis Newly Adult-born Neurons Are Functionally Similar To Mature Neurons By : Neuroscience News
In mammals, the production of new brain cells occurs primarily at the time the nervous system is developing, although certain brain areas generate neurons throughout adulthood. One such area is the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in the critical function of memory and spatial perception. - Zinc Plays Important Role In Brain Circuitry By : Neuroscience News
To the multitude of substances that regulate neuronal signaling in the brain and spinal cord add a new key player: zinc. By engineering a mouse with a mutation affecting a neuronal zinc target, researchers have demonstrated a central role for zinc in modulating signaling among the neurons. Significantly, they found the mutant mouse shows the same exaggerated response to noise as children with the genetic disorder called "startle disease," or hyperekplexia. - Deep Brain Stimulation Offers New Hope For Dystonia Treatment By : Neuroscience News
Dystonia, a group of diseases that cause a patient's muscles to involuntary contract with movement, has had a relatively limited and ineffective number of treatments in the past. New research shows that a recently developed surgical treatment, deep brain stimulation (an off switch for the brain), has provided dramatic benefits in some patients. - Deep Brian Stimulation Offers New Hope For Dystonia Treatment By : Neuroscience News
Dystonia, a group of diseases that cause a patient's muscles to involuntary contract with movement, has had a relatively limited and ineffective number of treatments in the past. New research shows that a recently developed surgical treatment, deep brain stimulation (an off switch for the brain), has provided dramatic benefits in some patients. - Proteins Anchor Memories In Our Brains - Holding Nerve-Signal Receptors In Place Is Crucial By : Neuroscience News
A University of Utah study suggests that memories are held in our brains because certain proteins serve as anchors, holding other proteins in place to strengthen synapses, which are connections between nerve cells. - There's More To Magic Than Meets The Eye By : Neuroscience News
The mechanisms that govern visual perception are only partly understood by scientists, and in fact much of what we know about how the human visual system works stems from investigations into our susceptibility to visual illusions. - Proteins Anchor Memories In Our Brain By : Neuroscience News
A University of Utah study suggests that memories are held in our brains because certain proteins serve as anchors, holding other proteins in place to strengthen synapses, which are connections between nerve cells. - Electroencephalography Monitoring Being Used To Detect Brain Damage In Infants By : Neuroscience News
Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, has conducted a detailed and thorough analysis of the US critical care patient monitoring market and finds that neonatal electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring is being used to detect brain damage in infants. Physicians can detect seizures and cerebral abnormalities with these systems, allowing them to identify developmental problems in neonates at an early stage. - Speak, Memory: Research Challenges Theory Of Memory Storage By : Neuroscience News
Daily events are minted into memories in the hippocampus, one of the oldest parts of the brain. For long-term storage, scientists believe that memories move to the neocortex, or "new bark," the gray matter covering the hippocampus. This transfer process occurs during sleep, especially during deep, dreamless sleep. - U Of MN Researchers Link Early Brain Development To Adult-onset Neurodegenerative Disease By : Neuroscience News
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Human Genetics have shown for the first time that the severity of an adult neurodegenerative disease is tied to how well the brain developed shortly after birth - Young Children Don't Believe Everything They Hear By : Nephrology News
Childhood is a time when young minds receive a vast amount of new information. Until now, it's been thought that children believe most of what they hear. New research sheds light on children's abilities to distinguish between fantasy and reality. - Unraveling Where The Brains Of Chimps And Humans Diverge Will Pinpoint Genes Linked To Evolution By : Neuroscience News
Six million years ago, chimpanzees and humans diverged from a common ancestor and evolved into unique species. Now UCLA scientists have identified a new way to pinpoint the genes that separate us from our closest living relative - and make us uniquely human. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports the study in its Nov. 13 online edition. - Hormone Linked To Brain's Cravings For Food And Other Energy Sources By : Neuroscience News
Ghrelin, a hormone produced in the stomach, induces food intake and operates through a brain region that controls cravings for food and other energy sources, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the October 19 online issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. - Dr. George Karpati Honored With A Prix Du Quebec By : Neuroscience News
Dr. George Karpati, Senior neurologist at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital and Izaak Walton Killam Professor of Neurology at McGill University, has been awarded the Prix Wilder Penfield, a prize that honours a researcher for their outstanding contribution in the field of biomedical science. Dr. Karpati received the award at a ceremony at the National Assembly on November 8. - Memories: It's All In The Packaging, Scientists Say By : Neuroscience News
Researchers at UC Irvine have found that how much detail one remembers of an event depends on whether a certain portion of the brain is activated to "package" the memory. - Researchers Find A Reaction To Spinal Cord Injury That Speeds Recovery In Young Rats By : Neuroscience News
Neuroscientists have long believed that the only way to repair a spinal cord injury was to grow new neural connections, but researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center recently found that, especially in young rats, powerful cells near the injury site also work overtime to restrict nerve damage and restore movement and sensation. - Evidence That Subliminal Is Not So 'Sub' By : Neuroscience News
The popular notion of subliminal information is that it streams into an unguarded mind, unchecked and unprocessed. However, neurobiologists' experiments are now revealing that the brain does consciously process subliminal information and that such processing influences how that subliminal information is perceived. - How The Brain Weaves A Memory By : Neuroscience News
Memories of events comprise many components--including sights, sounds, smells, and tastes. Somehow the many features of an episodic memory are woven together into a coherent whole, and researchers have had little understanding of how this binding takes place as the memories are processed by the brain's memory center, the hippocampus. A central question has been whether the hippocampus receives an "episodic packet," or a collection of perceptual strands that it must integrate into a memory. - Scientists Use Gene Therapy To Improve Memory And Learning In Animals By : Neuroscience News
Stanford University neuroscientists have designed a gene that enhances memory and learning ability in animals under stress. Writing in the Nov. 8 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, the Stanford team says that the experimental technique might one day lead to new forms of gene therapy that can reduce the severe neurological side effects of steroids, which are prescribed to millions of patients with arthritis, asthma and other illnesses. - Social Exclusion Changes Brain Function And Can Lead To Poor Decision-Making By : Neuroscience News
Poor Bridget Jones. At the beginning of the first film about her diary and life, the character, played by actress Renee Zellweger, is fat and alone in her apartment where she mimes one of the great self-pitying song hits of all time: "All by Myself." But Bridget's problem may be more than skin deep. - FDA Approves Pramipexole For The Treatment Of Moderate-to-severe Primary Restless Legs Syndrome By : Neuroscience News
Boehringer Ingelheim announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved pramipexole, a non-ergot dopamine agonist, for the treatment of moderate to severe primary Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS).1 This is an important milestone for pramipexole (Mirapexin® / Sifrol® / Mirapex®), which was already approved throughout the European Union in April 2006 for this second indication. - Team Discovers Molecular "Missing Link" Driving Nerve Cell Regrowth By : Neuroscience News
An enzyme called sAC helps spur the growth of nerve endings in the developing embryo, and might also be used to someday regrow these "axons" in adults paralyzed by spinal cord injury - Hospital Discharge Instructions For Mild Brain Injury Faulty By : Neuroscience News
A 40-year-old woman in good health falls and hits her head while visiting her roommate at her workplace. - Brain Injury May Occur Within One Millisecond After Head Hits Car Windshield By : Neuroscience News
Research by a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield as a result of a car accident. - Precautionary Approach Suggested To Protect Pregnant Women And Children Against Industrial Chemicals By : Neuroscience News
Exposure limits for chemicals should be set at values that recognise the unique sensitivity of pregnant women and young children, and they should aim to protect brain development, according to a Review this week. - Carnegie Mellon Study Reveals That Odor Discrimination Is Linked To The Timing At Which Neurons Fire By : Neuroscience News
Timing is everything. For a mouse trying to discriminate between the scent of a tasty treat and the scent of the neighborhood cat, timing could mean life or death. In a striking discovery, Carnegie Mellon University scientists have linked the timing of inhibitory neuron activity to the generation of odor-specific patterns in the brain's olfactory bulb, the area of the brain responsible for distinguishing odors. - Carnegie Mellon Study Reveals That Odor Discrimination Is Linked To The Timing At Which Neurons Fire By : Neuroscience News
Timing is everything. For a mouse trying to discriminate between the scent of a tasty treat and the scent of the neighborhood cat, timing could mean life or death. In a striking discovery, Carnegie Mellon University scientists have linked the timing of inhibitory neuron activity to the generation of odor-specific patterns in the brain's olfactory bulb, the area of the brain responsible for distinguishing odors. - Hopkins Researchers Discover How Brain Protein Might Control Memory By : Neuroscience News
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have figured out how one particular protein contributes to long-term memory and helps the brain remember things longer than an hour or two. The findings are reported in two papers in the Nov. 9 issue of Neuron. - St. Joseph's Provides Tissue Processing Services To Researchers In Hopes Of Finding A Cure By : Neuroscience News
A special research program at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center is providing a safe and vital research component to scientists in hopes of finding new treatments and cures for a variety of disorders. - Mysterious 'neural Noise' Actually Primes Brain For Peak Performance By : Neuroscience News
Researchers at the University of Rochester may have answered one of neuroscience's most vexing questions--how can it be that our neurons, which are responsible for our crystal-clear thoughts, seem to fire in utterly random ways? - Link Between Lou Gehrig's Disease And Gulf War Service By : Neuroscience News
The risk of a Gulf War veteran developing Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) later on is 50% higher than for other people, say researchers from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), USA. ALS is a neurodegenerative disease, which is often fatal - the patient's nerve cells progressively breakdown, he/she loses muscle control, and eventually becomes paralyzed. - Seat Of Emotions In Brain May Also Contribute To Higher Cognition By : Neuroscience News
The amygdala is a central processing station in the brain for emotions, but Yale researchers report that the amygdala also plays a role in working memory, a higher cognitive function critical for reasoning and problem solving. - FDA Approves MIRAPEX For The Treatment Of Moderate-to-Severe Primary Restless Legs Syndrome By : Neuroscience News
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Mirapex(R) (pramipexole dihydrochloride) tablets for the treatment of moderate-to-severe primary Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). - Icagen Reports Presentations at Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting By : Health News
Icagen, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICGN) today announced that data related to two of its preclinical programs were recently presented at the Neuroscience 2006 Meeting sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience ("SFN") in Atlanta, Georgia. - Factors Controlling Growth Of Brain Cells Damaged In ALS Identified By MGH Study By : Neuroscience News
A growth factor known to be important for the survival of many types of cells stimulates rapid extension of corticospinal motor neurons - critical brain cells that connect the cerebral cortex with the spinal cord and that die in motor neuron diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). - Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key To Evolution Of The Human Brain By : Neuroscience News
The stickiness of human neurons may have been a key factor in why the human brain evolved beyond the brains of our primate relatives. In a study comparing the genomes of humans, chimpanzees, mice and other vertebrates, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) found a strikingly high degree of genetic differences in DNA sequences that appear to regulate genes involved in nerve cell adhesion molecules. - Low Levels Of Neurotransmitter Serotonin May Perpetuate Child Abuse Across Generations By : Neuroscience News
Infant abuse may be perpetuated between generations by changes in the brain induced by early experience, research shows at the University of Chicago shows. - Doctors Launch New Effort To Treat Stroke More Effectively By : Neuroscience News
Just a small fraction of patients who have a stroke receive the only drug - TPA - available to treat the condition. Now doctors and scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have developed a potential new treatment that will reach a milestone in the next few months, when the experimental treatment is tested for the first time in people who have suffered a stroke or "brain attack." - Quality Of Life Of The Paralyzed Enhanced By Computer With Brain Connections By : Neuroscience News
Fundamental theories regarding consciousness, emotion and quality of life in sufferers of paralysis from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, also known as 'Lou Gerhig's disease') are being challenged based on new research on brain-computer interaction. ALS is a progressive disease that destroys neurons affecting movement. The study appears in the latest issue of Psychophysiology. - Dopamine Used To Design Polymer That Could Help Damaged Nerves Reconnect By : Neuroscience News
When Yadong Wang, a chemist by training, first ventured into nerve regeneration two years ago, he didn't know that his peers would have considered him crazy. - Major Breakthrough In The Mechanism Of Myelin Formation By : Neuroscience News
The group of Dr. Michel Cayouette, researcher at Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), and Dr. Jonah Chan, collaborator at the University of Southern California, will publish in the next issue of the prestigious scientific journal Science, the results of their study that could have a major impact on the treatment of diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and peripheral neuropathies. - HHMI Awards $19 Million To Latin American, Canadian Scientists By : Neuroscience News
Thirty-nine outstanding scientists in Latin America and Canada have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholars. Each will receive a five-year award totaling nearly $500,000. - Gene Therapy A Possibility For Metachromatic Leukodystrophy? By : Neuroscience News
Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is an inherited disease that causes progressively more severe neurological defects that result in death early in life. Individuals with MLD have a genetic defect that means they lack a protein known as ARSA. - Brainstem Abnormality Link To SIDS Stronger Than Previously Indicated By : Neuroscience News
Preliminary research suggests that brainstem abnormalities involving certain serotonin pathways in the brain may play a more important role in SIDS than previously thought, according to an article in the November 1 issue of JAMA. - Identification Of A Key Gene Required For Brain Neural Circuit Formation By : Neuroscience News
An international team of scientists, lead by Dr. Frederic Charron at the IRCM, and Drs Ami Okada, Sue McConnell, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne in the USA, have made a discovery which could help treat spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative diseases. This new finding will be published in the next issue of the prestigious scientific journal Nature. - Brain's Response To Pleasing And Changing Tastes, Pleasure Response And How It Can Go Wrong By : Neuroscience News
We all have tastes we love, and tastes we hate. And yet, our "taste" for certain flavors and foods can change over time, as we get older or we get tired of eating the same old thing. - When We Taste Something We Like What's Going On In The Brain? By : Neuroscience News
We all have tastes we love, and tastes we hate. And yet, our "taste" for certain flavors and foods can change over time, as we get older or we get tired of eating the same old thing. - A Wellcome Brain Gain For World Leading Neuroscience Lab By : Neuroscience News
One of the world's foremost brain imaging research facilities has received a major boost after being awarded 6.74 million pounds funding over five years by the Wellcome Trust. The former Functional Imaging Laboratory at University College London (UCL) is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award and becomes the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL. - Latest Data Demonstrate Boehringer Ingelheim's Pramipexole (Mirapexin®/Sifrol®) Improves Broad By : Neuroscience News
New data presented today show patients taking pramipexole (Mirapexin®/ Sifrol®) can experience significant improvements in a broad range of symptoms associated with Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS).1 In an additional study presented today, pramipexole was also shown to be well tolerated in RLS patients affected by concomitant diseases. - Cognitive Decline Is Often Undetected Study Shows By : Neuroscience News
Many patients over the age of 65 who are hospitalized with an acute illness experience a subtle change in their cognitive ability that often goes undiagnosed, untreated and underreported. As a result, a patient's ability to make decisions about his or her medical treatment may be negatively impacted. - Acumen Joins Neurotechnology Industry Organization By : Health News
Acumen Pharmaceuticals, a leading pre-clinical biotech company in Alzheimer’s therapeutics, today announced that it has joined the Neurotechnology Industry Organization (NIO) as a charter member. - UWM Brain Research Supports Drug Development From Jellyfish Protein By : Neuroscience News
With the research support from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a Wisconsin biotech company has found that a compound from a protein found in jellyfish is neuro-protective and may be effective in treating neurodegenerative diseases. - Mary Frances Lyon To Receive Rockefeller's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize By : Neuroscience News
The third annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, an international award to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding women scientists, will be presented to British geneticist Mary Frances Lyon on November 2. - Electronic Chip Modifies Brain Pathways For Controlling Movement By : Neuroscience News
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement. Their most recent study, to be published in the Nov. 2, 2006, edition of Nature, showed such a device can induce brain changes in monkeys lasting more than a week. - Erotic Images Prove Useful In Coaxing Out Unconscious Brain Activity By : Neuroscience News
When your eyes are presented with erotic images in a way that keeps you from becoming aware of them, your brain can still detect and respond to the images according to your gender and sexual orientation, a team of University of Minnesota psychologists has found. - Substance P May Pre-empt Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide In Regulating Temperature By : Neuroscience News
An elusive neurotransmitter pathway in the skin may have been isolated by University of Oregon researchers, a discovery that, if confirmed, would be a leap forward in understanding how temperature regulation occurs. In other words, they may have found a major player in the machinery that allows people to release body heat and stay cool. - Scientists Identify 36 Genes, 100 Neuropeptides In Honey Bee Brains By : Neuroscience News
From humans to honey bees, neuropeptides control brain activity and, hence, our behaviors. Understanding the roles these peptides play in the life of a honey bee will assist researchers in understanding the roles they play in their human counterparts. - Scientists Identify 36 Genes, 100 Neuropeptides In Honey Bee Brains By : Neuroscience News
From humans to honey bees, neuropeptides control brain activity and, hence, our behaviors. Understanding the roles these peptides play in the life of a honey bee will assist researchers in understanding the roles they play in their human counterparts. - Scientists Identify 36 Genes, 100 Neuropeptides In Honey Bee Brains By : Neuroscience News
From humans to honey bees, neuropeptides control brain activity and, hence, our behaviors. Understanding the roles these peptides play in the life of a honey bee will assist researchers in understanding the roles they play in their human counterparts. - Central Nervous System Viral Infection Can Lead To Memory Deficits Late In Life By : Neuroscience News
In one of the first known laboratory studies that explores memory deficits associated with a viral infection of the central nervous system, Mayo Clinic researchers have evidence that this infection can lead to memory loss late in life. The study, which was conducted in animal models, suggests that over the lifetime of an individual, a picornavirus-related infection could possibly have a permanent effect on memory late in life. - Understanding How Temperature Regulation Occurs By : Neuroscience News
An elusive neurotransmitter pathway in the skin may have been isolated by University of Oregon researchers, a discovery that, if confirmed, would be a leap forward in understanding how temperature regulation occurs. In other words, they may have found a major player in the machinery that allows people to release body heat and stay cool. - Electronic Chip, Interacting With The Brain, Modifies Pathways For Controlling Movement By : Neuroscience News
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement. Their most recent study, to be published in the Nov. 2, 2006, edition of Nature, showed such a device can induce brain changes in monkeys lasting more than a week. - Researchers Add To Understanding Of How Brain Cells Communicate By : Neuroscience News
An hour from now, will you remember reading this? It all depends on proteins in your brain called NMDA receptors, which allow your neurons to communicate with each other. - Study Identifies "Sociality" Neurons By : Neuroscience News
A University of California, San Diego study has for the first time identified brain cells that influence whether birds of a feather will, or will not, flock together. - Northstar Neuroscience to Participate in Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit By : Health News
Northstar Neuroscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTR) today announced that Alan Levy, Ph.D., Northstar’s President and Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a panel discussion at the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit being held in Cleveland, Ohio November 6-8, 2006. As part of the panel, Dr. Levy will participate in a discussion of neuromodulation with several prominent industry leaders. - Switch For Brain's Natural Anti-Oxidant Defense Identified By Scientists: Implications For Alzheimer By : Neuroscience News
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report they have found how the brain turns on a system designed to protect its nerve cells from toxic "free radicals," a waste product of cell metabolism that has been implicated in some degenerative brain diseases, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and aging. - Link Between A Sound And A Reward Changes Brain And Behavior By : Neuroscience News
If you've ever wondered how you recognize your mother's voice without seeing her face or how you discern your cell phone's ring in a crowded room, researchers may have another piece of the answer. - Reporters Skew Coverage Of Comas In Newspaper Articles, Mayo Clinic Study Finds By : Neuroscience News
Newspaper articles skew coverage of comas by focusing heavily on patients who are more likely to awaken and recover, thus possibly leading the public to believe that coma patients have better odds than they truly do. - Transplanted Immune Cells Prolong Life In ALS Studies By : Neuroscience News
Researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) have demonstrated that the immune cells of the spinal cord and brain contribute significantly to prolonging survival in a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that results in paralysis and eventual death, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A - The Neurobiology Behind Why Eating Feels So Good By : Neuroscience News
The need to eat is initiated, in part, by a hormone known as ghrelin. Although ghrelin is known to be produced in the gut and to trigger the brain to promote eating, it remains to be determined precisely how ghrelin affects different parts of the brain. - Successful One Year Gene Therapy Trial For Parkinson's Disease Announced By Neurologix By : Neuroscience News
Neurologix, Inc. (OTCBB: NRGX), a biotech company engaged in the development of innovative gene therapies for disorders affecting the brain and central nervous system, announced today that it has successfully completed its landmark Phase I trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's Disease with statistically significant results. The data was presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in Atlanta. - A Chicken-Or-Egg Question In ALS Treatment By : Neuroscience News
What goes first in the wasting disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: the muscles or the neurons that control them?
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