neuroscience

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...ch this is no cure," James L. Olds, a professor of neuroscience at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and director of the Krasnow Institute, cautioned in an interview with UPI. He said since there is no cure and limited treatment, telling a person they have Alzheimer's when there is no cure means that pers...

Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage

...tacks," said Shi, who is an associate professor of neuroscience and biomedical engineering in Purdue’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. "Our latest research indicates that acrolein may be the primary culprit that enables this vicious cycle. Because acrolein has already be...

Asthma aggravated by thought processes

...mmation," says Davidson, director of the affective neuroscience laboratory and the Waisman Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior. "The data suggest potential future targets for the development of drugs and behavioral interventions to control asthma and other stress-responsive disorders."...

Wockhardt Group Plans Hospital In Delhi By End-2007

...s and offer high-end surgeries mainly in coronary, neuroscience and orthopaedics," he said. Though it seeks to attract overseas patients, Bali said the hospital group would reach out to the community within the country through its outreach and preventive medicine programme in tie up with primary and secondary he...

US Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science

.... Chun, professor of psychology, interdepartmental neuroscience program and cognitive science program, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; and to Frederick M. Rieke, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and associate professor, department of physiology and biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle. C...

Is Aricept, the Alzheimer’s Drug Safe to Use against Vascular Dementia

...n the market. Gandy, who is also director of the neuroscience institute at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said that patients taking Aricept in the latest trial showed a statistically significant improvement in cognitive function, compared with those taking placebos. On the other hand the drug i...

Alcohol Intake During Pregnancy Is Bad For The Baby’s Hear

...ys David Earnest, a professor in the department of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center. Researchers exposed male Sprague-Dawley rats to high alcohol levels. Exposure to alcohol during the third trimester when components of the circadian system in the brain a...

Sensory Input Necessary During "Critical Periods" Of Brain Development

...ets of activity-dependent genes follows a shift in neuroscience research toward a more holistic view of the role of genes in neural development and plasticity. "What we found opens science up to a more global look at genes, from studying one gene at a time to looking at families of genes acting together," said f...

Springer slated to spring a journal on Brain Imaging and Behavior

...urce of innovative research for the broad clinical neuroscience community, said Dr. Saykin. It will emphasize integrative and translational studies that place imaging results in context, including everything from clinical symptoms and cognitive changes to genetic tests and other biomarkers that reflect cellular a...

Clues To Identify Psychological Seizures

...n association of more than 19,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving patient care through education and research. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating, and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimer’s disease, epi...

Brain Matures Emotionally with Age

...Simon Surguladze, deputy head of the department of neuroscience and emotion at King's College London said that regulation of negative emotions in older people was likely to be an evolutionary trait....

Research into Blindness Cure Goes Digital

... camera. Dr James Morrison from the university's neuroscience and biomedical systems department is also working with Dr Mathieson on this project Age related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa affect around one million people in the UK....

A boon to the paralyzed -Brain Gate Neural Interface System

...LS or Lou Gehrig's disease). John Donoghue, PhD, a neuroscience professor and director of the Brain Science Progra...y at Harvard Medical School and an investigator in neuroscience at Brown. He and his co-authors also note that the system requires significant improvement in reliab...

Scientists Coax Nerve Fibers to Regrow After Spinal Cord Injury

...nald Schnaar, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and neuroscience in the Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences at Hopkins. “The brain and spinal cord are extremely crowded with nerves and nerve fibers, which may be why we have developed careful controls that tell cells to stop making new connections. The crowded...

Computerized Patient Used to Teach Science to Medical Students

...y observing a lecture.” Fitch, whose Ph.D. is in neuroscience and who directs the emergency department’s simulat...was asked by James Johnson, Ph.D., who directs the neuroscience courses taught to first- and second-year students, to develop a simulation to help teach basic scien...

Human Brain Cells Might Have The Self Potential For Healing

...dish," said Noah Walton, a graduate student in the neuroscience department at the UF College of Medicine. "But what we really needed is for these support cells to turn into neurons in the brain, and we found we could get them to do it. Something in the environment in the rodent brain is sufficient to get these ce...

Conference on developing new treatments for Tourette Syndrome

...ll come together to discuss the latest findings in neuroscience to improvise the current treatment for tics. "...oimaging, neuropathology, genetics, and behavioral neuroscience about the neurobiology of TS. However, these advances have not yet had much impact on treatment. Res...

Region in the brain in-charge of face recognition includes object recognition as well.

...ior author David Ress, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience at Brown University and a former research scientis...ded. Along with Grill-Spector and Ress, Stanford neuroscience graduate student Rory Sayres contributed to the study. The research was funded by the National Eye I...

Slow brain waves integral in coordination of complex activity

...ht Lab) "One of the most important questions in neuroscience is: How do areas of the brain communicate?" said Dr. Robert Knight, professor of psychology, Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley. "A simple activity like responding to a question ...

Music Lessons for improved Brain Power in kids

...cted by// Laurel Trainor, professor of psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and her team. The study followed two groups of 6 children aged 4-6. They took a music test after attending music classes for one year. In this test, they had to distinguish harmonies, rhythms...

Is Binge Eating Addictive?

...e." Dr. Mark Gold, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute has come up with this idea that overeating is linked to addiction. Wang's research team used an Implantable Gastric Stimulator on seven obese human volunteers to monitor signals sent from the st...

Decaffeinated Coffee... Not Really!

...ld, M.D., a distinguished professor of psychiatry, neuroscience and community health and family medicine at UF's C...iths, Ph.D., a professor of behavioral biology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "More than 30 percent can discriminate the subjective effec...

Human Stem Cells Delay Start of Lou Gehrig’s Disease in Rat

...sos, M.D., an associate professor of pathology and neuroscience at Hopkins. Although all the rats eventually died of ALS, Koliatsos believes his experiments offer “proof of principle” for stem cell grafts and that a more complete transplant of cells - already being planned -- along the full length of the spine...

Gene therapy Beneficial in Parkinson's Disease

...the reports of two groups of researchers. In the neuroscience meetings held yesterday and last week the researchers reported that each of the 24 patients who received therapy in the two separate trials received some benefit and none had significant side effects. Katie Hood, deputy chief executive officer of t...

Protein ‘Fingerprint’ in Spinal Fluid Could Spot Alzheimer’s Disese

....D., associate professor of clinical neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell and director of the Memory Disorders Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Erin Finehout, Ph.D. ‘05, the lead author on the research who had been a doctoral student in Lee’s laboratory, said this ha...

How Many Genes Does It Take to Learn? Lessons from Sea Slugs

...orming network," said Leonid Moroz, a professor of neuroscience and zoology at the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience. "We took advantage of this powerful model of neurobiology and identified thousands of genes operating within a single neuron. Just during any simple event related to m...

Why Cold Last Long?

...n. Jun O. Liu, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology, neuroscience and oncology at Hopkins explains the role of Carabin in controlling the infection. The study was published in online version of "Nature" Liu said, “Carabin acts like an internal brake to dial down the speed and intensity of an immune response so tha...

Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene may Protect from Developing Alcoholism

..., associate professor of molecular and integrative neuroscience at The Scripps Research Institute. "The first is ADH, which converts alcohol to acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is a toxic compound that can be damaging to the liver and other body organ systems. The second enzyme is aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which b...

Is Extreme Irritability - a Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

...e're approaching the day when we'll be able to use neuroscience techniques to improve psychiatric diagnoses. Pediatric BD has some of the most pressing needs in this regard, because of its severity and because of questions about how to best make the diagnosis," said senior author Ellen Leibenluft, M.D., Chief of ...

Scientists Uncover Cause of Antipsychotic Drug Weight Gain

...etite,” says Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Our identification of the molecular players that link such drugs to increased food intake means there’s now hope for finding a newer generation of drugs without the weight-gain side effects.” The discovery...

Abnormalities in Eye Movements and Attention can Predict Schizophrenia

...k F. Lenzenweger, a professor of clinical science, neuroscience and cognitive psychology at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY), is the first to have found that abnormalities in eye movements and attention can be used to divide people into two groups in relation to schizophrenia-related ris...

Scientists Produce Neurons from Human Skin

... breakthrough might have an impact in the field of neuroscience research. "Producing neurons from skin cells could solve the problem of human neural cell availability for research," explains Berthod. "Since neurons do not multiply, researchers now have to rely on laboratory animal neurons to perform their experim...

Cholesterol in Stroke Patients Exceeds National Guidelines

...n association of more than 20,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving patient care through education and research. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as stroke, Alzheimer’s disea...

Child Brain Likely To Be Harmed By Stress

... a consequence Professor Joe Herbert, professor of neuroscience at Cambridge University. This could set up a vi...stage in life. Professor Joe Herbert, professor of neuroscience at Cambridge University, said: "There is increasing evidence that adversity in early life can have l...

Indian American Records Brain Dialogue During Sleep

...deep sleep. Mayank Mehta, assistant professor of neuroscience at Brown University in Rhode Island, made the startling discovery, according to 'Brown Daily', a student newspaper. Mehta and his team found that the electrical activity in the brain cells of sleeping mice isn't completely random. They observed a '...

The Science of Happiness

...work pressure that sets off the sadness siren. The neuroscience that delves into the biology of well being is todd...an be acquired through time and effort. Experts in neuroscience have been baffled by a 60 yr old, academician- turned Buddhist monk , Matthieu Ricard, who has am...

Antioxidant Molecule Could Help Minimize Stroke-Linked Brain Damage

...r Dr. Sunghee Cho, assistant research professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Cho is also assistant professor of neurology/neuroscience and director of preclinical stroke modeling at the Burke Medical Research Institute in White Plains, N.Y. The new study suggests that SS31 works by inhi...

UF Launches Project to Bridge the Regeneration Gap

...ientists together," said Steindler, a professor of neuroscience at the UF College of Medicine. "We will begin a process of sharing ideas and designing experiments to answer questions about growth in simple systems that can then be applied to more complex tissue reconstruction needed in human organisms." Althoug...

Research Explains How Lead Exposure Produces Learning Deficits

...for learning and memory. “There was a dogma in neuroscience that you were born with all the neurons you would ever have, but that thinking has changed dramatically in the last 20 years,” said Tomás R. Guilarte, PhD, senior author of the study and professor of environmental health sciences at the Johns Hopkins...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

...w is managing research in flexible electronics for neuroscience at the University of Cambridge in England. She has been recognized by Technology Review magazine, which named her to its 2006 list of 35 leading innovators under age 35. Together, the engineers created the first working stretchable circuits by link...

Restless Legs Syndrome Poses Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

...n association of more than 20,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving patient care through education and research. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as stroke, Alzheimer’s disea...

Chances of Developing Parkinson’s High Among Depressed Patient

...gy, an association of over 20,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving patient care through education and research. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimer’s disease, epil...

Migraines may Be a Symptom of Other Problems for Iraq Soldiers

...gy, an association of over 20,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving patient care through education and research. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimer’s disease, epil...

A Boon to Hearing Impaired-Gene Transfer

...g loss. Dr. Jeffrey Holt, associate professor of neuroscience and otolaryngology at UVa, and his research team, including Dr. Bradley Kesser, an assistant professor of otolaryngology, targeted a gene known as KCNQ4, which causes genetic hearing loss in humans when mutated. They engineered a correct form of the ...

Bird Song Study Provides Clues to Human Speech Disorders

... paper. Helekar is associate research professor of neuroscience at the Methodist NI and Weill Cornell. Using the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) fMRI method, researchers observed brain response patterns in 16 adult zebra finches during playback of the birds' own song, their tutor's song, an unfamiliar...

Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.

...ther guide our development of basic studies in the neuroscience and genomics of BPD.The study was supported, in part, by the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation and the Personality Disorders Institute at the Department of Psychiatry, Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University....

Resistance to Scientific Explanations By Children and Adults

...Weisberg, there is resistance to central tenets of neuroscience and evolutionary biology because the concepts clash with intuitive beliefs about the immaterial nature of the soul and the purposeful design of humans and other animals. Children, for instance, commonly believe that the mind is fundamentally separa...

Researchers Find Estrogen Governs Genes That Affect Aggression

...he study and postdoctoral fellow in psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State University. The researchers castrated male mice to stop production of testosterone, and then fitted in them implants that controlled their testosterone levels. Upon treatment with a drug that halts the production of estrogen, it was...

Common Pain Killer may Reduce the Risk of Brain Damage in Premature Babies

... Medical Center who is presenting the results at a neuroscience meeting, Brain '07, in Osaka, Japan May 20-23. The laboratory research was done principally in a laboratory at New York Medical College led by neonatologist Praveen Ballabh, M.D. The research is based on extensive brain studies of infants who di...

Brains White Matter: More Talkative Than Once Thought

...s Dwight Bergles, Ph.D., an associate professor of neuroscience at Hopkins. The discovery focuses on oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs), whose main role when they mature into oligodendrocytes is to wrap themselves around and insulate nerves with a whitish coat of protective myelin. The immature cells simply...

When Smell Cells Fail They Call In Stem Cell Reserves

...ns lead author Randall Reed, Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, supporting a class of active-duty stem cells that help repair normal wear and tear. They dont come in until things are really bad. The only nerve cells in the body to run directly from the brain to the outside world, olfactory cel...

Migraines may Be a Symptom of Other Problems for Iraq Soldiers

...gy, an association of over 20,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving patient care through education and research. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimers disease, epile...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

...id John Morrison, a professor in the department of neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. "There's been a great deal of confusion as to whether estrogen helps or harms post-menopausal women, and our findings tell us that there is a very critical window of opportunity in which estrogen t...

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...ms." And, he adds, a growing body of "hard-nosed neuroscience research" is attracting attention to the profound effects of meditation. "This deserves serious scientific attention," he says. "It also explains why people spend time sitting on the meditation cushion, because of the effects on day-to-day life." ...

Researchers Link Bacteria Destroying Proteins to Alzheimer's Treatment

...ar K. Gouras, associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, and colleagues provide new insights into how these proteins, called antibodies, reduce the main hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease and raise hopes for a vaccine against the disease. "Antibodie...

Research into Suppressed Memories Could Help Treatment for Depression

...mories," said Brendan Depue, a doctoral student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and lead author of the study. "By essentially shutting down specific portions of the brain, they were able to stop the retrieval process of particular memories," Depue said. The authors of the paper said ...

Research Reveals Anatomy of Suppressed Memories: Study

...mories," said Brendan Depue, a doctoral student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and lead author of the study. "By essentially shutting down specific portions of the brain, they were able to stop the retrieval process of particular memories," Depue said. The authors of the paper said ...