Up to 30 percent of those diagnosed with epilepsy don't actually have the disorder. They have psychological nonepileptic seizures, or psychogenic seizures, that are caused by psychological conditions, not by the abnormal electrical activit...

A study suggests the brain is quickly turned on and "tuned in" when a person views erotic images. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis measured brainwave activity of 264 women as they viewed a series of...

Evidence suggests acupuncture reduces the symptoms of fibromyalgia, according to a Mayo Clinic study. Fibromyalgia is a disorder considered disabling by many, and is characterized by chronic, widespread musculoskeletal pain and symptoms su...

Abnormal glucose metabolism, which occurs when the body has difficulty processing sugar (glucose) into energy, is twice as common among patients with chronic nerve dysfunction of unknown cause than among the general population and may be a...

The landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) funded by the National Institutes of Health, which followed 1,441 people with type 1 diabetes for a decade until 1993, showed conclusively that tight blood glucose control signif...

Synapse development involves a series of very gradual structural, functional, and molecular changes. There is some uncertainty about the earliest initiating events that lead to synaptic contact. It seems that both the release machinery in...

For the first time, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have demonstrated that cell-cell contacts in the brain play an active role in processing information: called synapses, these interfaces act as precise filters tha...

No doubt golf is the numberone recreational sport for many throughout Northern California, but it'snot without risk. Well-known professionals such as Tiger Woods and JackNicklaus have suffered back pain while playing, and amateur golfers i...

Vanda PharmaceuticalsInc. (Nasdaq: VNDA), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the developmentand commercialization of clinical-stage product candidates for centralnervous system disorders, today announced that Phase II data for its slee...

Springer will launch Brain Imaging and Behavior in 2007. The journal will be of broad interest to researchers and clinicians in fields concerned with brain/behavior relationships such as neuropsychology, psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery...