Honored for the posterpresentation, "A Needs Assessment Survey of MS Patients and Care Partners,"the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) received the BerlexAward for the Best Poster in Patient and Family Education in MultipleS...

New research from the lab of Adrian Bird, a molecular geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, reveals that abnormally high levels of a protein called Uqcrc1 in the brains of mouse models of Rett Syndrome cause mitochondria--th...

An epilepsy drug that has been on the market for decades can ease the symptoms of adult sufferers with a genetic disorder that seriously weakens muscles. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis retrospectively r...

The neurological basis for poor witness statements and hallucinations has been found by scientists at UCL (University College London). In over a fifth of cases, people wrongly remembered whether they actually witnessed an event or just ima...

Memory has long held interest for scientists. In July UNSW will host the 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4), which will see 700 delegates on campus to share fundamental and applied research in the area of human memory. Lik...

A male is more likely to be gay if he has an older brother, the likelihood grows the more older brothers he has. The percentage of gay males is estimated to be around 3%, this probability can go up to 5% for males with several older brothe...

Exposure to pesticides is linked to a higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, say researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, USA. People with low level exposure to pesticide sprays have a 70% increased risk of developing...

Results from three different clinical studies of Sifrol?/ Mirapexin?(pramipexole), presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS), demonstrate significant improvement of a broad range of Restless...

Abbott announced today results of two analyses from a major Phase III study of HUMIRA?(adalimumab) in ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The first analysis demonstrates the ability of HUMIRA to maintain the reduction of signs and symptoms in...

In a dramatic display of stem cells' potential for healing, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports that they've engineered , completed, fully-working motor neuron circuits -- neurons stretching from spinal cord to target muscles --...