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Chronic pain is relieved by cell transplantation in lab study (Update)

(Medical Xpress) -- Chronic pain, by definition, is difficult to manage, but a new study by UCSF scientists shows how a cell therapy might one day be used not only to quell some common types of persistent ...

Neuroscience created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pathological aging brains contain the same amyloid plaques as Alzheimer's disease

Pathological aging (PA) is used to describe the brains of people which have Alzheimer's disease (AD)-like pathology but where the person showed no signs of cognitive impairment whilst they were alive. New research, published ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows halting an enzyme can slow multiple sclerosis in mice

Researchers studying multiple sclerosis(MS) have long been looking for the specific molecules in the body that cause lesions in myelin, the fatty, insulating cells that sheathe the nerves. Nearly a decade ago, a group at ...

Inflammatory disorders created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Psychiatric diagnoses: Why no one is satisfied

As the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is revised for the first time since 1994, controversy about psychiatric diagnosis is reaching a fever pitch.

Autism spectrum disorders created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Untangling the mysteries of Alzheimer's

One of the most distinctive signs of the development of Alzheimer's disease is a change in the behavior of a protein that neuroscientists call tau. In normal brains, tau is present in individual units essential to neuron ...

Neuroscience created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New study supports view that Lewy bodies are not the primary cause of cell death in Parkinson's Disease

The pathology of Parkinson's disease is characterized by a loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra (SN), an area of the brain associated with motor control, along with the development ...

Medical research created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Test for Alzheimer's disease predicts cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease

A method of classifying brain atrophy patterns in Alzheimer's disease patients using MRIs can also detect cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease, according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows promising multiple sclerosis treatment targets immune cells to increase neuroprotection

Laquinimod is an orally available synthetic compound that has been successfully evaluated in phase II/III clinical studies for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The mechanism of action of laquinimod ...

Medical research created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yeast model connects Alzheimer's disease risk and amyloid beta toxicity

In a development that sheds new light on the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a team of Whitehead Institute scientists has identified connections between genetic risk factors for the disease and the ...

Medical research created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Next-generation brain stimulation may improve treatment of Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a devastating and incurable disease that causes abnormal poverty of movement, involuntary tremor, and lack of coordination. A technique called deep brain stimulation (DBS) is sometimes used to ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biological fingerprints improve diagnosis of dementia

Differentiating between the various forms of dementia is crucial for initiating appropriate treatment. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy have discovered that the underlying diseases leave different "fingerprints" in ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Screen finds an antidepressant, other drugs, opens possibility of treating brain-wasting mad cow disease

In a new study NYU School of Medicine researchers report that they have found several chemical compounds, including an antidepressant, that have powerful effects against brain-destroying prion infections in mice, opening ...

Medical research created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Alzheimer's brains found to have lower levels of key protein

Researchers have found that a protein variation linked by some genetic studies to Alzheimer's disease is consistently present in the brains of people with Alzheimer's. In further biochemical and cell culture investigations, ...

Medical research created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Single traumatic brain injury may prompt long-term neurodegeneration

Years after a single traumatic brain injury (TBI), survivors still show changes in their brains. In a new study, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that Alzheimer's ...

Neuroscience created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

PET-CT exams help identify cognitive reserve in early-onset Alzheimer's disease

A recent study revealed that the "cognitive reserve" in early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and PET-CT examinations can be used to effectively to identify early-onset AD patients.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created May 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0