Patients with implanted cardiac devices and their physicians sometimes defer important electrodiagnostic testing because of anxiety about potential negative effects the testing may have on the device. Good s for these patients and physi...

Researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) have demonstrated that the immune cells of the spinal cord and brain contribute significantly to prolonging survival in a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive...

The need to eat is initiated, in part, by a hormone known as ghrelin. Although ghrelin is known to be produced in the gut and to trigger the brain to promote eating, it remains to be determined precisely how ghrelin affects different parts...

Although Parkinson's disease is most commonly viewed as a "movement disorder," scientists have found that the disease also causes widespread abnormalities in touch and vision side effects that have now been verified using functional magnet...

Neurologix, Inc. (OTCBB: NRGX), a biotech company engaged in the development of innovative gene therapies for disorders affecting the brain and central nervous system, announced today that it has successfully completed its landmark Phase I...

"I am a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not," says Mozart's character in the movie "Amadeus." No one doubts the second part of that statement, but the first remains controversial. Some have suggested that Mozart suffered from Tou...

Malaria is not usually thought of as a major disease in the Middle East, but a study from Yemen in this week's BMJ reveals worryingly high levels of severe malaria in children. In fact, the figures show that as many as 4 out of 10 children...

What goes first in the wasting disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: the muscles or the neurons that control them? Most researchers have assumed that the neurons die off, starting the process of muscle wasting. But the story may...

Leon Thal, Director of the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UCSD, heads 70-site consortium funded by National Institutes of Health The Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), a federally established consortium dir...

People who carry a particular genetic variation are more likely to respond to stress by becoming depressed and by ruminating on the event, according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, and the Univ...