Cephalon, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH) announced today that the Division of Neurology Products of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed the company that it is continuing to evaluate the single case of serious rash reported in a S...
Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: MEMY) today announced that it had presented preclinical data for its lead compounds, MEM 3454 and MEM 1003, at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Annual Meeting, held in Hollywo...
Transplanted neural stem cells hold promise for reducing the destruction of dopaminergic cells that occurs in Parkinson's disease and for replacing cells lost to the disease, scientists say. Research published in the current issue of The J...
The pathological embrace between two proteins plays a key role in the development of Alzheimer's disease by triggering the formation of neuron-killing plaques of amyloid beta protein. Now a group of scientists at NYU School of Medicine hav...
Gliomas are extremely malignant and fast growing tumors. Not only do they secrete molecules to secure their blood supply by generating blood vessels, they are also able to secrete messenger molecules to protect themselves against attac...
Gloria Lenhoff, age 51, can't make change for a dollar, or subtract five from twelve, or tell left from right. She can't cross the street alone, or write her name legibly, or read music. Her IQ is 55. But Gloria Lenhoff can sing like few p...
The Midwest Children's Brain Tumor Center at Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital awarded John Hipchen, President of the Board of Directors of the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA), the Center's Wings of Hope Medal. This awa...
A small study on people identified as high risk for schizophrenia because two or more family members had the illness suggests certain changes occur in brain structure prior to onset. Scientists used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to moni...
Children who were exposed prenatally to the insecticide chlorpyrifos had significantly poorer mental and motor development by three years of age and increased risk for behavior problems, according to a peer-reviewed study published by the...
A small study on people identified as high risk for schizophrenia because two or more family members had the illness suggests certain changes occur in brain structure prior to onset. Scientists used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to moni...
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...