Parkinson's & Movement disorders
New hope from old drugs in fight against Parkinson's (Update)
Scientists have found early hints that compounds in certain asthma drugs might be able to combat Parkinson's disease.
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Medical research
In utero stem cell transplants may replace riskier childhood transplants for multiple conditions
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland will pioneer stem cell transplants for a uniquely challenging patient population: second-trimester fetuses stricken with a potentially fatal disease.
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Tracing the path of Parkinson's disease proteins
As neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease progress, misfolded proteins clump together in neurons, recruiting normal proteins in the cell to also misfold and aggregate. Cells in which this ...
Aug 4, 2017
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Neuroscience
Researchers uncover how to boost learning efficiency in neurofeedback
Researchers from the HSE Centre for Cognition & Decision Making and the (Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, have conducted a series of experiments to determine what a person actually ...
Jul 31, 2017
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A new insight into Parkinson's disease protein
Abnormal clumps of certain proteins in the brain are a prominent feature of Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases, but the role those same proteins might play in the normal brain has been unknown.
Jul 28, 2017
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Neuroscience
Team traces masculinization in mice to estrogen receptor in inhibitory neurons
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black box in the brain whose contents explain one of the remarkable yet mysterious facts of life.
Jul 20, 2017
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Neuroscience
Drug discovery: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's spurred by same enzyme
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have distinct genetic and environmental risk factors.
Jul 3, 2017
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Parkinson's is partly an autoimmune disease, study finds
Researchers have found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity—in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues—plays a role in Parkinson's disease, the neurodegenerative movement disorder. The findings raise ...
Jun 21, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Mistaken antibodies may have led breast cancer research down a 20-year dead end
For nearly two decades researchers have sought a way to target an estrogen receptor in the hope they could improve breast cancer survival, but an article published today in Nature Communications contends that the effort may ...
Jun 15, 2017
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Pre-clinical study suggests Parkinson's could start in gut endocrine cells
Recent research on Parkinson's disease has focused on the gut-brain connection, examining patients' gut bacteria, and even how severing the vagus nerve connecting the stomach and brain might protect some people from the debilitating ...
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