Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) today announced that the Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has approved TEMODAL(R) (temozolomide) Capsules for the treatment of malignant glioma. The approval of TEMODAL by the MHLW...

The brain adapts to experience by unleashing a burst of neuronal connections, and only the fittest survive. A discovery from the Brain Mind Institute of the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique F閐閞ale de Lausanne) shows that the brain r...

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited ("Takeda", Osaka, Japan) and BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("BioNumerik", San Antonio, Texas) today announced the results of two Phase 3 Trials for Tavocept? Tavocept is an investigational drug...

People 60 years or older can improve their memory by 10 years or more. That's the findings of a study published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The randomized, controlled study looked at the...

Neurobiologists have known that a novel environment sparks exploration and learning, but very little is known about whether the brain really prefers novelty as such. Rather, the major "novelty center" of the brain--called the substantia ni...

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center have found that taking as little as a hundred milliseconds longer to smell an odor results in more accurate identification of that odor. This seemingly simple observation has important impli...

Iranian civilians exposed to high-intensity warfare and chemical weapons are experiencing significantly higher levels of psychological distress compared to those exposed to low-intensity warfare but not chemical weapons, researchers at Yal...

Mice that couldn't be dissuaded from the object of their attention by a piece of sweet, crunchy cereal may help researchers find treatments and cures for human disorders like autism and Parkinson's disease. For the first time, a psychi...

Scientists have provided insights into how and why the brain is organised - knowledge which could eventually inform diagnosis of and treatments for conditions like Alzheimer's disease and autism. A study by Newcastle University, UK, an...

The Department of Education hasannounced the final regulations enforcing Part B of the Individuals withDisabilities Education Act (IDEA) law, which was reauthorized by Congress.Tourette Syndrome (TS) is now listed as a disability under the...