A recent volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences brings together research from diverse communities on the potential for Diffusion Tension Imaging (DTI) to measure and model white matter tracts in the human brain. While mos...

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The first signs of dementia - including Alzheimer's disease - may be physical, rather than mental, according to a joint study between Group Health Cooperative and the University of Washington reported in the May 22 Archives of Internal Med...

A computerized atlas has brought unprecedented sensitivity to the search for brain structure changes in a genetic condition known as Williams syndrome, revealing 33 abnormalities in the folding of the brain's surface. The disorder, which o...

Prominent German spine surgeons,Dieter Adelt, MD and Rudolf Bertagnoli, MD announced encouraging results inseparate studies of a total 246 stenosis patients receiving ParadigmSpine's coflex(TM) spinal implant. The surgeons spoke to more th...

A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has identified several compounds that could play a role in preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease and other degener...

Studies in which monkeys were asked to manipulate computer cursors for fruit juice rewards have revealed that the brain's "executive" center plans behaviors not by specifying movements required for given actions, but rather the events that...

Like blind peoples' fingers, rats use their whiskers to engage in active sensing - a combination of movement and touch - when trying to figure out the location and identity of a certain object. But how the brain decodes the signals it rece...

Novartis announced thatExelon (rivastigmine tartrate) received a favorable opinion from thePeripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of mild to moderatede...

As many as 400,000 people in North America suffer sudden cardiac arrest. Only 30% have their hearts restarted, and only about 6% survive to hospital discharge. Once the heart is restarted, a significant factor for subsequent death is brain...