A Queen's study of stroke survivors gives insight into the stages of recovery of hand muscle control after a stroke, suggesting that patients may benefit from different treatment strategies at different times during the recovery proces...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island have identified which among several different kinds of cells in the brain is the chief target of the widely prescribed antidepressant Prozac. This discovery might enable a gen...

Medical professionals will now be able to detect subtle changes in the quality of life of people with mild dementia, thanks to a self-assessment technique that will help improve the timing of additional help and support. One of the maj...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered a naturally occurring growth factor that stimulates regeneration of injured nerve fibers (axons) in the central nervous system. Under normal conditions, most axons in the mature cen...

A procedure that fills in fractured vertebrae with injected cement has not been shown to improve a person's back pain or quality of life, according to a analysis of studies. The procedure, known as percutaneous kyphoplasty, does seem t...

People whose recurrent headaches have been diagnosed as tension-related actually may be suffering from temporomandibular muscle and joint disorder, or TMJD, a study headed by a researcher from the University at Buffalo's School of Dental M...

Concentric Medical, Inc. and the SITS Network today jointly announced their partnership on the THRUST (Thrombectomy in Unsuccessful StrokeThrombolysis) study. The study will be sponsored by Concentric Medical and managed by the SITS Networ...

The University of Queensland`s status as centre for neuroscience excellence has been recognised with a $10 million grant to the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) in the federal budget. Established in 2003, QBI is dedicated to understanding...

Philosophers have been fascinated by the question since Pythagoras. At the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Elaine Chew, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, now teaches a graduate course on using computational and...

Canavan disease is a rare but fatal inherited degenerative brain disorder. It mainly affects children of eastern and central European Jewish (Ashkenazi) descent, which includes about 90 percent of the Jews in America. About one in 40 Ashke...