Neuroscience
Precise mapping shows how brain injuries inflict long-term damage
Researchers have shown how forces acting on the brain during traumatic injury are linked to damage seen years after the initial trauma.
Jan 21, 2021
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Brain
Brain is a neurological journal published by Oxford University Press. It was edited by John Newsom-Davis from 1997 to 2004. Under his editorship it became one of the first scientific journals to go online. Since 2004 the journal is edited by Alastair Compston, Professor and Head of Department of Clinical Neurosciences in Cambridge.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United Kingdom
- History
- 1878–present
- Website
- http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/
- Impact factor
- 9.230 (2010)
Medications
New Parkinson's disease therapeutics discovered
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers have discovered that the protein BMP5/7 offers promising therapeutics that could slow down or halt the progression of Parkinson's disease. The findings were published in the ...
Jan 20, 2021
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Neuroscience
Blood test could bring new hope to Alzheimer's clinical trials
A team of scientists at UCL have found that blood tests measuring the hallmark Alzheimer's protein, b-amyloid (amyloid), could radically reduce the cost of clinical trials and potentially open the door to treating the disease ...
Jan 19, 2021
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Neuroscience
Imaging technique proves effective in measuring mitochondrial dysfunction in motor neuron disease
Researchers from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) have used a new imaging technique to measure the function of mitochondria in patients with motor neuron disease (MND).
Jan 13, 2021
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New studies support blood test for early detection of Alzheimer's disease
In three recent publications in Molecular Psychiatry, Brain and JAMA Neurology researchers from the University of Gothenburg provide convincing evidence that an in-house developed blood test for Alzheimer's disease can detect ...
Jan 13, 2021
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Neuroscience
A brain mechanism underlying 'vision' in the blind is revealed
Some people have lost their eyesight, but they continue to 'see.' This phenomenon, a kind of vivid visual hallucination, is named after the Swiss doctor Charles Bonnet, who described in 1769 how his completely blind grandfather ...
Jan 07, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
No causal link found for COVID-19, Guillain-Barré syndrome
(HealthDay)—There seems to be no causal association between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), according to a study published online Dec. 14 in Brain.
Jan 04, 2021
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Neuroscience
Condition causes loss of vertigo perception and imbalance in TBI patients
A condition that causes loss of vertigo perception and imbalance has been diagnosed in traumatic brain injury patients for the first time.
Dec 29, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study discovers new targets for MS treatment and potential early disease marker
University of Manitoba researchers have discovered that a specific protein has the potential to be used as a treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) and could one day predict whether someone may develop the disease.
Dec 15, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
No association between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barré syndrome: study
Neuroscientists at UCL have found no significant association between COVID-19 and the potentially paralysing and sometimes fatal neurological condition Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Dec 14, 2020
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