http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A report in one of the last issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the physical and psychological triggers for attacks in Meniere's disease. Ménière's disease (MD) is a debilitating disease of the inner ear for which the main symptoms comprise vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus and a sense of fullness or pressure in the ear. Residual and movement-provoked dizziness may also occur between major attacks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-triggers-chronic-dizziness.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:50:01 EST news284204145 Researchers have mapped the precise 3-D atomic structure of a thin protein filament critical for cells in the inner ear and calculated the force necessary to pull it apart. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-bond-proteins-critical.html Medical research Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:00:01 EST news271507105 New research by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine may have pinpointed an underlying cause of the seizures that affect 90 percent of people with Angelman syndrome (AS), a neurodevelopmental disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-brain-cell-imbalance-account-seizure.html Neuroscience Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:10:01 EST news258215785 Results of a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may help pave the way to a treatment for a neurogenetic disorder often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy or autism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-discovery-treatment-angelman-syndrome.html Genetics Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:00:01 EST news243693945 Over the last 25 years, intensive efforts by physicians, physical therapists, and occupational therapists have developed integrative rehabilitation regimens that can alleviate balance disorders associated with neurological disease, trauma or weightlessness. A special issue of NeuroRehabilitation: An Interdisciplinary Journal provides an up-to-date review of the underlying scientific principles and latest clinical advances in the treatment of vestibular problems commonly encountered in neurorehabilitation. The journal is celebrating its 20th anniversary of publication this year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-patients-disorders-benefit-therapy.html Neuroscience Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:50:34 EST news241710626