News tagged with neurological damage


Use of speed and ecstasy linked to teen depression

Secondary school-kids who use speed and ecstasy seem to be prone to subsequent depression, indicates research of almost 4000 teens published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Addiction created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers use brain-injury data to map intelligence in the brain

Scientists report that they have mapped the physical architecture of intelligence in the brain. Theirs is one of the largest and most comprehensive analyses so far of the brain structures vital to general ...

Neuroscience created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Northwestern study compares endovascular brain aneurysm repair devices

Approximately 6 million Americans have brain aneurysms, a condition that occurs when a weak or thin spot develops on a blood vessel in the brain causing it to balloon. Often, these do not cause symptoms and go undetected, ...

Neuroscience created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cancer drug improves memory in mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

A compound that previously progressed to Phase II clinical trials for cancer treatment slows neurological damage and improves brain function in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop world's most advanced drug to protect the brain after a stroke

Scientists at the Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI), Krembil Neuroscience Center, have developed a drug that protects the brain against the damaging effects of a stroke in a lab setting. This drug has been in development ...

Medical research created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neurobiologists identify animal model for a deadly human metabolic disorder

In medical research, finding a reliable and cost-effective animal model can greatly enhance success in identifying disease mechanisms and genetic pathways, potentially cutting years off drug testing regimes and development ...

Neuroscience created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Experimental drug reduces 'second stroke' after aneurysm rupture

An experimental drug, clazosentan, reduced the risk of blood vessel spasm in patients with a brain aneurysm, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012.

Cardiology created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research proving link between virus and MS could point the way to treatment and prevention

A new study from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London shows how a particular virus tricks the immune system into triggering inflammation and nerve cell damage in the brain, which is known to cause MS.

Neuroscience created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher contends multiple sclerosis is not a disease of the immune system

An article to be published Friday (Dec. 23) in the December 2011 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that multiple sclerosis, long viewed as primarily an autoimmune disease, is not actually a disease of the im ...

Immunology created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Simple blood test diagnoses Parkinson's disease long before symptoms appear

A new research report appearing in the December issue of the FASEB Journal shows how scientists from the United Kingdom have developed a simple blood test to detect Parkinson's disease even at the earliest stages. The te ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Toll-like receptors play role in brain damage in newborns

Two out of every thousand babies are at risk of brain damage in connection with birth. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have identified mechanisms behind these ...

Medical research created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spinal cord treatment offers hope

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have developed a promising new treatment for spinal cord injury in animals, which could eventually prevent paralysis in thousands of people worldwide every ...

Neuroscience created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover how daughter cells receive the same number of chromosomes

Scientists at Warwick Medical School have uncovered the molecular process of how cells are by-passing the body's inbuilt 'health checkpoint' with cells that carry unequal numbers of chromosomes that have a higher risk of ...

Genetics created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

iPad research promising for children with cortical visual impairment

(Medical Xpress) -- A researcher at the University of Kansas believes the iPad could vastly improve the lives and prospects of children living with cortical visual impairment, a severe neurological disorder ...

Health created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Feared spinal X-ray found to be safe, study shows

Medical imaging experts at Johns Hopkins have reviewed the patient records of 302 men and women who had a much-needed X-ray of the blood vessels near the spinal cord and found that the procedure, often feared for possible ...

Neuroscience created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast