Psychology & Psychiatry

Brain clues reveal risk of psychotic illness

(Medical Xpress)—New research has shown that people with psychotic illness show similar brain changes to immediate family members who present no signs of illness.

Medical research

Cells must use their brakes moderately for effective speed control

How cells regulate their own function by "accelerating and braking" is important basic knowledge when new intelligent medicines are being developed, or when plant cells are tweaked to produce more bioenergy. In a study published ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Bursts of brain activity may protect against Alzheimer's disease

Evidence indicates that the accumulation of amyloid-beta proteins, which form the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, is critical for the development of Alzheimer's disease, which impacts 5.4 million Americans. ...

Neuroscience

Less tau reduces seizures and sudden death in severe epilepsy

Deleting or reducing expression of a gene that carries the code for tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease, can prevent seizures in a severe type of epilepsy linked to sudden death, said researchers at Baylor ...

Oncology & Cancer

Synthetic biology approaches to improving immunotherapy

The AACR 2018 Meeting in Chicago is ending today and has featured the major new results in cancer treatment and immunotherapy treatments in particular. Immunotherapy, the use of the patient's own immune system to attack their ...

Genetics

Advances in delivery of therapeutic genes to treat brain tumors

Novel tools and methods for delivering therapeutic genes to cells in the central nervous system hold great promise for the development of new treatments to combat incurable neurologic diseases. Five of the most exciting developments ...

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