Facet Solutions, Inc. todayannounced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has grantedconditional Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval for itsAnatomic Facet Replacement System (AFRS(TM)). The approval establishesFacet...
Pheromones, sexual chemicals, trigger responses in lesbians which are different from those of heterosexual women, heterosexual men and homosexual men, according to a study at the Stockholm Brain Institute. The researchers used Positron...
WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Friedreich's ataxia patients andfamilies have more reason than ever to welcome the approach of"Friedreich's Ataxia Awareness Day" on May 20th. The third Saturday of Mayis recognized in Congressional and st...
From zebra fish to humans, reproductive hormones govern behavioral responses to courtship signals. A Emory University study conducted in songbirds suggests that hormones may also modulate the way the auditory system processes courtship...
The prospect of a paycheck, good grade, or promotion wonderfully concentrates the mind, and researchers have now identified the brain circuitry responsible for such reward-motivated learning. In an article in the May 2006, Neuron, Alison A...
Around one in 500 people who undergo a general anaesthetic are aware of what's happening during their operation. On Friday 12 May leading anaesthetists and scientists studying consciousness will meet for the very first time to try to find...
With a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher will work to improve the effectiveness of a drug that he developed for the most deadly type of brain tumor. W...
XenoPort, Inc.(Nasdaq: XNPT) announced today that additional data from the company'sPhase 2a clinical trial of XP13512 for the treatment of post-herpeticneuralgia, or PHN, will be presented by Miroslav Backonja, M.D., at theAmerican Pain S...
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, deleted the PTEN gene in parts of the brain of mice and found they exhibited autistic-like traits. The researchers deleted the PTEN gene from parts of the hippocam...
Marking a major development in non-surgical care of Scoliosis, Orthopedic Surgeon Christine Collaird, M.D.,has created a revolutionary bracing system that reduces Scoliosis whileimproving muscle function without the use of a hard brace. It...
On July 13, 2009, the Journal of Cell Biology published a research article from t...
On October 10th, the Journal of Neuroscience published an article from ION entitl...