Medications
Effects of antidepressants taken during pregnancy are poorly understood, scientists note
Depression affects 10%-16% of pregnant women worldwide. Most get better with the help of antidepressant drugs.
Dec 13, 2022
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Medications
Antidepressant harms developing neurons in lab-grown 'mini-brains'
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have demonstrated the use of stem-cell-derived "mini-brains" to detect harmful side effects of a common drug on the developing brain. Mini-brains are miniature ...
Jul 14, 2020
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Medical research
Lab-grown 'mini brains' hint at potential treatment options for motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia
Cambridge researchers have developed 'mini brains' that allow them to study a fatal and untreatable neurological disorder causing paralysis and dementia—and for the first time have been able to grow these for almost a year.
Oct 21, 2021
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Genetics
New therapy may be able to treat rare and hereditary diseases
Much research has been conducted over many decades on diseases that are widespread in large parts of the population, such as cancer and heart disease. As a result, treatment methods have improved enormously thanks to long-term ...
Nov 24, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New research presents 'mini-brains' that could advance Alzheimer's treatment
Using an innovative new method, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher is building tiny pseudo-organs from stem cells to help diagnose and treat Alzheimer's.
May 14, 2024
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Cardiology
Video: Physician warns that with a stroke, 'time equals brain'
Dr. José Biller, chair of Neurology and a stroke specialist, explains that both his parents died of vascular diseases, his father of a heart attack and his mother of a brain hemorrhage. He thinks this influenced his decision ...
Aug 4, 2014
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