http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Johns Hopkins researchers believe they may have discovered an explanation for the sleepless nights associated with restless legs syndrome (RLS), a symptom that persists even when the disruptive, overwhelming nocturnal urge to move the legs is treated successfully with medication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-restless-legs-syndrome-insomnia-brain.html Neuroscience Tue, 07 May 2013 12:40:01 EST news287148641 Americans with brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis (MS) who need to see a neurologist may face longer wait times or have more difficulty finding a neurologist, according to a new study published in the April 17, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The findings are being released as nearly 150 neurologists will descend on Capitol Hill next Tuesday, April 23, 2013, to encourage Congress to protect patients' access to neurologists and ensure there will be care for the one in six Americans currently affected by brain disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-neurologist-shortage.html Neuroscience Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:00:02 EST news285429385 Practical Neurology Visual Review, a powerful educational tool for mastering the clinical practice of neurologic diagnosis, is now available in a fully revised and updated Second Editon. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-neurology-text-patient-videos.html Neuroscience Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:34:42 EST news283077254 Two patients freed from severe to disabling effects of dystonia through deep brain stimulation therapy continued to have symptom relief for months after their devices accidentally were fully or partly turned off, according to a report published online Feb. 11 in the journal Movement Disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-dystonia-cases-deep-brain-therapy.html Neuroscience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:03:19 EST news279910984 In an update to previous research, Johns Hopkins neurologists say minimally invasive delivery of the drug tPA directly into potentially lethal blood clots in the brain helped more patients function independently a year after suffering an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), a deadly and debilitating form of stroke. Rates of functional recovery with the active tPA treatment far surpassed those achieved with standard "supportive" therapy that essentially gives clots a chance to shrink on their own. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-treatment-clot-busting-drug-yields-results.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:00:17 EST news279458725 (Medical Xpress)—Data from the largest multicenter study accessing cognitive functioning in children with multiple sclerosis (MS) reveals that one-third of these patients have cognitive impairment, according to a research paper published in the Journal of Child Neurology. Led by Lauren B. Krupp, MD, Director of the Lourie Center for Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis at Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital, the study indicates that patients experience a range of problems related to cognition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-children-ms-cognitive-impairment.html Neuroscience Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:40:01 EST news279361828 Each year, as many as 500,000 Americans experience mini strokes called transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mini-symptoms-quickly-patients.html Cardiology Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:31:00 EST news279279045 A team of researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College is calling into question the published statistics, methods and findings of a highly publicized research study that claimed bedside electroencephalography (EEG) identified evidence of awareness in three patients diagnosed to be in a vegetative state. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-science-opinion-flaws-patients-vegetative.html Neuroscience Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:30:02 EST news278272883 More than 2,000 former football players are suing the National Football League, saying the league should have taken action earlier to deal with injuries related to concussions more seriously. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-health-law-expert-nfl-concussions.html Health Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:27:06 EST news277658816 (Medical Xpress)—Adriano Aguzzi, Ben Barres and Mariko Bennett, noted American neurologists for their research into the role glia cells play in brain function, have written a review paper for the journal Science. In it, they assert that it is their belief that glia cells play a far more important role in brain function than is commonly believed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-neurologists-reveal-insights-glia-cell.html Medical research Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:47:38 EST news277116345 (Medical Xpress)—For several years, neurologists at UCLA have been building a case that a link exists between pesticides and Parkinson's disease. To date, paraquat, maneb and ziram—common chemicals sprayed in California's Central Valley and elsewhere—have been tied to increases in the disease, not only among farmworkers but in individuals who simply lived or worked near fields and likely inhaled drifting particles. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-pesticides-parkinson-uncover-proof-link.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:45:05 EST news276504277 Brain surgery for certain difficult forms of epilepsy often reduces or eliminates seizures for more than 15 years after the procedure, according to new research by neurologists at Henry Ford Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-long-terms-benefits-brain-surgery-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:15:18 EST news275058854 A survey has identified career burnout as a significant problem among neurologists who predominantly work with hospital inpatients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-hospital-based-neurologists-career-burnout.html Neuroscience Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:49:40 EST news274628973 Children with traumatic brain injuries are more likely to survive and avoid long-term disabilities when treated aggressively as part of a designated neurocritical care program that brings together neurologists, neurosurgeons, trauma and other critical-care specialists, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-pediatric-brain-injuries-disabilities.html Neuroscience Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:41:25 EST news274603273 (HealthDay)—Besides helping to boost mood, antidepressants may also reduce seizure frequency for people with epilepsy, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-antidepressants-seizures-people-epilepsy.html Medications Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:20:02 EST news273776098 Researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, have found an association in the United States between a higher density of neurologists and neurosurgeons and a decreased risk of death from stroke. The findings of their study are described in the article "Association of a higher density of specialist neuroscience providers with fewer deaths from stroke in the United States population. Clinical article," by Atman Desai, M.D., and colleagues, published today online, ahead of print, in the Journal of Neurosurgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-neurologists-neurosurgeons-deaths.html Surgery Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:02 EST news273435916 One tiny flaw in one gene in one little girl. That explains why Beatrice Rienhoff, 8, is so lean and leggy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-open-source-science-father-genetic-quest.html Genetics Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:10:04 EST news270470805 Widespread use of telestroke—two-way audiovisual linkups between neurologists in stroke centres and emergency rooms in underserved and rural areas—would save lives, reduce disability and cut health-care costs in all parts of Canada, according to a major national report released today at the Canadian Stroke Congress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-telestroke-provinces-disability.html Cardiology Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:31:33 EST news268371086 A new Mayo Clinic study confirms the use of smartphones medical images to evaluate stroke patients in remote locations through telemedicine. The study, the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a real-world telestroke network, was recently published in Stroke, a journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-smartphone-technology-telemedicine.html Cardiology Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:01:45 EST news268326080 Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's are characterised by the loss of nerve cells and the deposition of proteins in the brain tissue. A group of researchers led by Gabor G. Kovacs from the Clinical Institute of Neurology at the MedUni Vienna has now demonstrated that Alzheimer's disease does not just – as previously believed – involve the proteins that are attributed to Alzheimer's, but instead the condition can involve a mixture of interacting proteins from different neurodegenerative diseases.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-foreign-proteins-implicated-alzheimer-disease.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:32:49 EST news267694361 It was a quiet Thursday afternoon when AS, a 68-year-old woman from a suburb of Chicago, awakened from a nap to the realization that something was terribly wrong. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-balint-syndrome-vision.html Neuroscience Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:00:13 EST news266501040 Patients who resume smoking after a stroke increase their risk of death by three-fold, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2012 by Professor Furio Colivicchi from San Filippo Neri Hospital. The researchers also found that the earlier patients resume smoking, the greater their risk of death with one year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-death-three-fold.html Cardiology Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:50:01 EST news265371072 (Medical Xpress) -- When a patient undergoes a cardiac catheterization procedure such as a balloon angioplasty, there's a slight risk of a stroke or other neurological complications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-cardiac-catheterizations-small-neurological-complications.html Cardiology Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:40:32 EST news263205608 (Medical Xpress) -- Adding stroke severity to a hospital 30-day mortality model based on claims data for Medicare beneficiaries with acute ischemic stroke was associated with improvement in predicting the risk of death at 30 days and changes in performance ranking regarding mortality for a considerable proportion of hospitals, according to a new study whose authors include two University of Cincinnati (UC) neurologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-severity-mortality.html Health Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:47:03 EST news262000017 Go ahead - do it: Grab a pencil. Right now. Write your name backward. And upside down. Awkward, right? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-mind-games-mental-key-brain.html Health Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:00:18 EST news259404567 For decades, neurologists have known that a diet high in fat and extremely low in carbohydrates can reduce epileptic seizures that resist drug therapy. But how the diet worked, and why, was a mystery—so much so that in 2010, The New York Times Magazine called it "Epilepsy's Big, Fat Miracle." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-reverse-epilepsy-miracle-diet.html Neuroscience Wed, 23 May 2012 12:24:29 EST news256994639 Following a stroke, factors as varied as blood sugar, body temperature and position in bed can affect patient outcomes, Loyola University Medical Center researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-minimize.html Neuroscience Mon, 14 May 2012 16:56:07 EST news256233357 A mysterious, difficult-to-diagnose, and potentially deadly disease that was only recently discovered can be controlled most effectively if treatment is started within the first month that symptoms occur, according to a new report by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-early-treatment-outcomes-rare-undiagnosed.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:55:32 EST news254137430 Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They say their mathematic model can be used to predict where and approximately when an individual patient's brain will suffer from the spread, neuron to neuron, of "prion-like" toxic proteins -- a process they say underlies all forms of dementia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dementia-future-disease-patterns-years.html Neuroscience Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:42:28 EST news251559739 A study of mothers and their young babies by neurologists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has shown that mothers who suffer migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to have babies with colic than mothers without a history of migraines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-links-babies-colic-mothers-migraines.html Neuroscience Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:00:03 EST news248956990