Scientists have linked a recently discovered gene to a rare nervous system disease called hereditary spastic paraplegia, for which there is no cure. The discovery could lead to development of drugs that target the defective gene, said the...

Diseases and injuries that affect central nervous system neurons are among the illnesses that are hardest to cure. Their frequency increases dramatically with age, and morbidity associated with neurological disorders is expected to rise dr...

A multi-institutional team of researchers has found that people with long-standing, severe paralysis can generate signals in the area of the brain responsible for voluntary movement and these signals can be detected, recorded, routed out o...

A man with paralysis of all four limbs could directly control objects around him - open simulated email, play a game of Pong, adjust the volume on the television set - using only his thoughts. These pilot clinical trial findings, featured...

Biosite(R) Incorporated(Nasdaq: BSTE), a research-based provider of novel, rapid medicaldiagnostics, today announced it has received U.S. Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) clearance to add methadone to its Triage(R) TOX DrugScreen. The add...

The aim is to build a computer which mimics how nerve cells in the brain interact in a bid to engineer more 'fault tolerant' electronics. The computer will be the first of its kind and will be used to try and understand how, for example, t...

A patient with a spinal cord injury was able to produce brain signals associated with intending to move his paralyzed limbs, signals picked up by an implanted sensor and translated into electronic impulses that allowed him to control a com...

Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Osaka, President: Motozo Shiono) announced that it will launch the non-pyrazolone antipyretic analgesic 揝edes 甐?with vitamin B1 on July 19, 2006. In addition to its antipyretic and analgesic ingredient...

Two papers reporting on patient and laboratory evaluations of the efficacy of PathFinder, the image guided robot for stereotactic neurosurgery, were presented at the American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, June 1st-4t...

While the number one reason patients go to the doctor is to address some form of pain, there has been no breakthrough class of pain drugs for many decades. Currently, there are two major classes of pain therapeutics: opiates, such as morph...