Medical research

Study finds serotonin reduction causes long COVID symptoms

Patients with long COVID—the long-term symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, or memory loss in the months or years following COVID-19—can exhibit a reduction in circulating levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, according ...

Neuroscience

Regenerative cell therapy for epilepsy

Together with colleagues, veterinarian and neuroscientist Sonja Bröer has researched how regenerative cell therapies can contribute to curing or alleviating epilepsy. The work was carried out at biotechnology start-up Neurona ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New findings pave the way for hearing loss therapies

As we age, many of us will eventually need hearing aids. In some cases, the reason for this may be a signaling pathway that controls auditory sensory cell function and is downregulated with age. Researchers at the University ...

Neuroscience

Gene therapy opens new possibilities for treating chronic pain

Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford, along with colleagues at Cambridge University and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, have shown the potential ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Extra-large synapses could be a cause of schizophrenia

Schizophrenia may be associated with the excessive formation of oversized and hyperactive synaptic connections between nerves in the brain, a mouse model and a human post-mortem study published in Science Advances by RIKEN ...

Medications

FDA panel says no to experimental ALS drug

An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted resoundingly against recommending a stem cell-based experimental treatment for ALS.

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