In tests on rats, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan have developed a treatment that helps spinal cord nerves regrow after injury. The findings will be published in the July 18 issue of the Proceedings of the Natio...
University of Florida scientists have used gene therapy to eliminate disabling muscle contractions in a mouse model of the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy. The inherited disorder, known as myotonic dystrophy, is found in...
A Mayo Clinic study finds that after memory begins to decline, executive function is the next brain function to deteriorate in the progression from mild cognitive impairment, a pre-Alzheimer's disease condition, to Alzheimer's disease....
Over the last several months, the labs of Yale Goldman, MD, PhD, Director of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Erika Holzbaur, PhD, Professor of Physiology, have published a group o...
Older women who experience migraines with aura have a higher risk of experiencing heart attacks, strokes, angina and heart-related deaths, say American researchers. Older women who experience migraines without aura are at no higher risk th...
In the second it takes you to read these words, tens of thousands of vesicles in your optic nerves are released in sequence, opening tiny surface pores to pass chemical signals to the next cell down the line, telling your brain what you're...
MemoryPharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: MEMY) today announced that it has achieved aset of defined preclinical milestones in its collaboration with Roche forthe discovery and development of nicotinic alpha-7 receptor agonists forthe treatment...
New research published in Nature has linked a specific gene to a common type of dementia. The discovery of the connection between frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and a gene called 慻ranulin' will open up an entirely field of research in...
A UCLA imaging study finds political party allegiance affects the brain activity of partisans viewing the faces of candidates. Published online July 9, 2006, by the peer-reviewed journal Neuropsychologia, the study finds a partisan's b...
If an elderly woman loses weight, it is possible she will develop Alzheimer's disease in the coming years, say researchers from The Mayo Clinic, USA, in a study of over 1,000 people. Many people in the study who had dementia had lost weigh...
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...