Oncology & Cancer
Finding new ways to treat diffuse midline gliomas
Cancer is a sneaky disease. Find one method of treating it successfully, and it finds another way to survive.
May 22, 2023
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News tagged with spinal cord
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Multiple sclerosis: New evidence for the role of Epstein-Barr virus
An estimated 2.8 million people around the world have multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease in which the immune system damages the brain and spinal cord.
May 22, 2023
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Neuroscience
The brain isn't the only place a stroke can occur
Sudden, painless loss of vision. Burning back pain. Achy legs. Incontinence.
May 19, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New study explains how a common virus can cause multiple sclerosis
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found further evidence for how the Epstein-Barr virus can trigger multiple sclerosis or drive disease progression. A new study published in Science Advances shows that some ...
May 17, 2023
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Medications
Researchers are unlocking new answers in the quest for safer, more effective opioid therapy
University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers are taking the foot off the brake in their quest to improve opioid therapy while decreasing its side effects.
May 15, 2023
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Neuroscience
Task-specific modulation of corticospinal neuron activity during motor learning in mice
Learning motor skills depends on the brain's ability to change, or be plastic. Specifically, the primary motor cortex of the brain can change as a person learns new motor tasks. When someone learns a complex task that involves ...
May 15, 2023
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Neuroscience
Old motor neurons don't die, scientists discover—they just slow down
A new study led by researchers at Brown University's Carney Institute for Brain Science offers a blueprint to help scientists prevent and reverse motor deficits that occur in old age.
May 11, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Getting active while living with a partial spinal cord injury
A UBC Okanagan researcher has been testing the effectiveness of a mobile app that encourages people living with a spinal cord injury—but can walk—to get active.
May 11, 2023
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Medical research
New model of multiple sclerosis correlates demyelination with evolution of cognitive and motor abilities
No treatment currently exists that can stop the silent progression of multiple sclerosis, and many promising drugs have proved ineffective in clinical trials. To reduce this failure rate and better predict the potential of ...
May 3, 2023
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Neuroscience
A human-machine interface to stop muscle tremors
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT have been working with international partners to develop a technology platform to help relieve the symptoms of muscle tremors. Tiny biocompatible electrodes ...
May 2, 2023
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