Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Chronic migraine headache relief possible with outpatient surgery
When medications fail to eradicate debilitating migraine headaches, surgery could provide relief for certain patients.
Jan 4, 2013
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News tagged with neurologic disorders
Genetics
Genes provide landmarks on the roadmap of autism
Many roads can lead to the same place, often crossing over one another and sometimes passing the same landmarks.
Jun 8, 2011
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Neuroscience
Non-coding RNA has role in inherited neurological disorder -- and maybe other brain diseases too
A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have uncovered a novel mechanism regulating gene expression and transcription linked to Spinocerebellar ataxia 7, an ...
Jun 21, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Stress shrank brain area of Japan tsunami survivors: study
Emotional stress caused by last year's tsunami caused a part of some survivors' brains to shrink, according to scientists in Japan who grasped a unique chance to study the neurological effects of trauma.
May 22, 2012
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Neuroscience
Rett protein MeCP2 needed for proper adult neuron function
The protein MeCP2 is porridge to the finicky neuron. Like Goldilocks, the neuron or brain cell needs the protein in just the right amount. Girls born with dysfunctional MeCP2 (methyl-CpG-binding protein 2) develop Rett syndrome, ...
Jun 2, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study: Many Europeans have mental disorders
(AP) -- Some 38 percent of Europeans, or 165 million people, suffer from mental illness or neurological disorders on a broad spectrum ranging from anxiety to dementia, a new study published Tuesday says. Most are not being ...
Sep 6, 2011
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Ophthalmology
New research characterizes glaucoma as neurologic disorder rather than eye disease
A new paradigm to explain glaucoma is rapidly emerging, and it is generating brain-based treatment advances that may ultimately vanquish the disease known as the "sneak thief of sight." A review now available in Ophthalmology, ...
Mar 7, 2012
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Medical research
Two Americans, German win Nobel medicine prize (Update 3)
Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how key substances are transported within cells, a process involved in such important activities as brain cell communication and ...
Oct 7, 2013
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Neuroscience
Train your brain, change your brain
Less than one hour of brain training with neurofeedback leads to a strengthening of neural connections and communication among brain areas. This is the main finding of a new study conducted at D'Or Institute for Research ...
Apr 15, 2019
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Neuroscience
Head-mounted microscope allows long-term brain imaging in freely moving mice
Researchers have developed the first detachable head-mounted photoacoustic microscope for imaging brain activity in freely moving mice. Because the device can be removed after imaging, it enables long-term studies that could ...
Dec 9, 2021
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