A study released today by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Heath (CAMH) provides a thorough explanation of how the "chemical imbalance" occurs in major depression, a disease that impacts approximately 5 percent of people globally. F...
The only drugs currently available for Alzheimer's patients are those that alleviate symptoms, but a team of scientists led by Paul Aisen, MD, director of the Memory Disorders program at Georgetown University Medical Center, is testing a n...
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 j...
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. The competitive awards rec...
A breakthrough finding on the mechanism of myelin formation by Jonah Chan, assistant professor of cell and neurobiology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, could have a major impact on the treatment of...
A pediatric oncologist at Brenner Children's Hospital is evaluating whether a drug typically used to treat Alzheimer's patients will help brain cancer survivors avoid the learning and memory problems that are common after radiation therapy...
A team of Senior British Doctors from Association of British Hujjaj (pilgrims) UK have issued a strong warning to British Hajj pilgrims that they must get 'quadrivalent' meningococcal vaccine (ACWY vac) to protect themselves and their fami...
A stroke victim arrives in the emergency room and, within minutes, the doctor must make a decision: Should drugs be administered to open up the blocked blood vessel and prevent further brain damage? Or is this patient at high risk for suff...
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...
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...