Neuroscience
Brain implant helps completely 'locked-in' man communicate
Unable to move a single muscle, even to open your eyes. Completely locked into your own body, yet fully conscious and aware.
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Neuroscience
New strategy reduces brain damage in Alzheimer's and related disorders in mice
Alzheimer's disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau. A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Neuroscience
Could there be a link between the enteric neurons, gut microbiome and ALS?
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago are looking at the possibility that gastroenterological changes could be an early warning sign for Lou Gehrig's disease. Their research in animal models also shows a promising ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Medical research
Astrocyte studies reveal harmful changes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed harmful changes in supporting cells, called astrocytes, in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in two publications in Brain and Genome Research.
Jan 19, 2022
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Neuroscience
Decoding inner language to treat speech disorders
What if it were possible to decode the internal language of individuals deprived of the ability to express themselves? This is the objective of a team of neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Evidence of a possible link between herpes simplex and neurodegenerative diseases
A new study by researchers at University of Illinois Chicago suggests that when the protein optineurin, or OPTN, is present in cells it restricts the spread of HSV-1, the herpes simplex virus type 1.
Sep 13, 2021
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Medical research
Identification of bacterial proteins that promote neurodegeneration
Growing evidence indicates that gut microbiota plays a critical role in regulating the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the molecular mechanism underlying ...
Sep 7, 2021
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Medical research
First study to investigate the role of RNA tags in Alzheimer's disease
Understanding the role of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has led to new ways to diagnose it as well as the creation of medicines now in clinical trials to treat it.
Aug 27, 2021
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Neuroscience
Scientists reverse a key hallmark of motor neuron disease in the laboratory
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have studied how proteins accumulate in the wrong parts of brain cells in motor neuron disease, and have demonstrated how it might be possible, in some cases, to reverse this.
Aug 6, 2021
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Neuroscience
Study finds abnormal response to cellular stress is associated with Huntington's disease
A new University of California, Irvine-led study finds that the persistence of a marker of chronic cellular stress, previously associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal ...
Jun 23, 2021
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