Brain imaging researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have demonstrated dysfunction in a key brain region in major depression. Major depression, a mood disorder affecting millions of people, causes tremendous sufferin...

New autopsy data provide the strongest evidence yet that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is not a "mystery" disease but has a concrete biological basis. In the November 1 issue of JAMA, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston documen...

Microwaving your French fries before you fry them reduces the levels of a cancer-causing substance, reveals findings published 31-Oct-2006 in the SCI's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture . The discovery of acrylamide - a possib...

The next generation of treatments for shock or stroke could be based on a protein that is already in our heads - neuroglobin. In a review article to be published in the November issue of The FASEB Journal , scientists from University of Ro...

In the first large-scale analysis of proteins in the brains of individuals addicted to cocaine, researchers have uncovered novel proteins and mechanisms that may one day lead to treatment options to fight addiction. The results, report...

The physical changes that occur in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, have been well characterized, but the cause(s) of this disease and the development of therapies has r...

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 AR...

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. Sudden in...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today launched a national public education and awareness campaign on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), a weakening and often devastating illness for millions of Americans. The campaign, ca...

Researchers funded by The Terry Fox Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society have found that a cancer-fighting virus called VSV kills the most malignant form of brain cancer in mice. The team also discovered that the virus can be given i...