Neuroscience

Study identifies protein to repair damaged brain tissue in MS

Vittorio Gallo, PhD, Director of the Center for Neuroscience Research at Children's National Health System, and other researchers have found a "potentially novel therapeutic target" to reduce the rate of deterioration and ...

Cardiology

Brain biomarker shows promise in heart

A biomarker widely used to diagnose brain injury has shown early promise for assessing the severity of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, find researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

How a concussion can lead to depression years later

(Medical Xpress)—A head injury can lead immune-system brain cells to go on "high alert" and overreact to later immune challenges by becoming excessively inflammatory – a condition linked with depressive complications, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Ten treated in France after kitten dies of rabies (Update)

Ten people would be preventatively treated for rabies after coming into contact with a kitten that died of the disease, which is potentially deadly to humans, French authorities said Friday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Taiwan confirms first rabies in dog

Taiwanese health authorities on Tuesday renewed a call for owners to inoculate their pets after confirming a case of rabies in a dog, as the island struggles with its first outbreak of the disease in decades.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Scientists show key role for inflammation in Alzheimer's

Southampton scientists have found that an immune response in the brain plays a key role in the development of Alzheimer's, and that a vaccine designed to tackle the disease was able to suppress the response.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Pets on frontline as Taiwan battles rabies outbreak

Taiwan Sunday called on citizens to vaccinate their pet cats and dogs against rabies as health officials stepped up attempts to combat the deadly disease following a string of outbreaks among wild ferret-badgers.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Promising Alzheimer's 'drug' halts memory loss

A new class of experimental drug-like small molecules is showing great promise in targeting a brain enzyme to prevent early memory loss in Alzheimer's disease, according to Northwestern Medicine research.

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