Although brains -- even adult brains -- are far more malleable than we used to think, they are eventually subject to age-related illnesses, like dementia, and loss of cognitive function. Someday, though, we may actually be able to replace brain cells and restore memory. Recent work by Ashok K. Shetty, Ph.D., a professor in the [...]
Traumatic brain injuries come in many forms, from a mild concussion caused by playing football to a blow in a violent car crash that leads to unconsciousness and memory loss. These injuries can be difficult to treat without causing undesirable side effects, but a new technology may help doctors deliver helpful drugs to specific areas [...]
Brain Inj. 2016 Mar 10:1-11. [Epub ahead of print] Prieto-Palomino MA(1), Curiel-Balsera E(1), Arias-Verdú MD(1), Der Kroft MD(2), Muñoz-López A(1), Fernández-Ortega JF(1), Quesada-García G(1), Sanchez-Cantalejo E(3), Rivera-Fernández R(4). PURPOSE: This paper studies the relationship between computed tomography (CT) scan on admission, according to Marshall's tomographic classification, and quality-of-life (QoL) after 1 year in patients admitted [...]
26 May 2016 This week commencing 23 May, international pharma company Zambon and its partner Newron Pharmaceuticals launched a new Parkinson’s drug called safinamide (trade name Xadago®) in the UK. The drug gained approval in the EU last December following a 2 year study in people with mid to advanced Parkinson's who were already taking [...]
28 June 2016 Researchers in Canada have discovered that the genes affected in Parkinson's play an important role in protecting cells from attack by the body's own immune system. PINK1 and Parkin are the genes that are thought to keep the cell batteries, or mitochondria, healthy. The new findings were published in scientific journal Cell and they [...]
New York:Researchers have found that an elusive brain receptor may play an important role in the death of neurons from neurological diseases. Strokes, seizures, traumatic brain injury and schizophrenia leads to persistent, widespread acidity around neurons in the brain. Analysing NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) - a family of brain receptors that are critical to learning and memory [...]
New York: A drug which is already being used to treat a neurological disorder may also be able to reverse genetic changes behind Alzheimer's disease, a new study has claimed. Ageing takes its toll on the brain, and the cells of the hippocampus - a brain region with circuitry crucial to learning and memory - [...]
Physicians from different specialties have long collaborated to care for newborns who have developmental brain abnormalities or are at high risk of neurological injuries. However, says Johns Hopkins neonatologist Frances Northington, these relationships have usually consisted of one-at-a-time consults. “A neurologist might talk with the neonatal team or a radiologist or maybe a maternal fetal [...]
The most common type of stroke is ischemic, accounting for 85% of all strokes. Ischemic strokes occur when the artery that supplies oxygen-carrying blood to the brain becomes blocked, often by a blood clot. Although a number of risk factors for stroke are known, including alcohol, smoking, obesity and lack of exercise, the current study [...]
The brain is divided into two hemispheres, the right and the left. In most people, the left side dominates in language and speech-motor functions. If the left side of the brain is damaged by stroke, aphasia can result. Aphasia can cause problems with speaking, naming, repeating and understanding language. Many people recover some of these [...]
