Tag: "neurology" at medical news

Deep-Brain Stimulation for Dystonia patients

...ide the brain.Dr. Guenther Deuschl, a professor of neurology at Christian-Albrechts University, said, 'It is a reasonable treatment for people who have failed other therapies.' Deuschl and his colleagues conducted a study on 40 patients with severe dystonia for 5 years. Medicines gave only partial success. T...

Blame Myelin for Many Neuropsychiatric Disorders

...ring efficient signaling. But the research of UCLA neurology professor George Bartzokis, M.D., has already shown that myelin problems are implicated in diseases that afflict both young and old — from schizophrenia to Alzheimer’s. Now, in a report published in the journal Biological Psychiatry and available ...

Gender Might Have a Say in How Your Child Speaks

...llman, PhD, professor of neuroscience, psychology, neurology and linguistics. He added that since the brain systems tested in this study are responsible for more than just language use, the study supports the notion that “men and women may tend to process various skills differently from one another.” One pot...

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

...rman Relkin, M.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 laborat...

Low LDL Levels Lead to Parkinson's Disease

...nic at UNC Hospitals and an assistant professor of neurology in the UNC School of Medicine. "Parkinson's patients are also more likely to carry the gene APOE-2, which is linked with lower LDL cholesterol." And for more than a decade, researchers have known that smoking, which increases a person's risk for card...

Researchers Discover How We Differentiate Smells

... noted Jay Gottfried, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the principal investigator of the study. The study will be published in Neuron December 21. The researchers also used functional MRI techniques to measure brain activity from the subjects throughou...

Study Offers Window into Human Behavior, Brain Disease

... the study, William Seeley, MD, UCSF instructor of neurology and a clinician-scientist at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Progress has been made in illuminating some of the genetic and molecular aspects of the disease – two mutated genes are associated with most inherited forms of the disease and major mi...

Indians Make One Major Human Race: US Study

...ne, the University of Michigan, the departments of neurology and molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and the Centre for Medical Genetics at the Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin. The study was funded by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awar...

Physicians Enlisted in Efforts to Keep Demented Drivers Off the Road

...mas Meuser, Ph.D., research associate professor of neurology at Washington University. "But there are health-related changes associated with aging, including Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, that impair medical fitness to drive." In a recent issue of the Gerontologist, Meuser and colleagues r...

Fast-Multiplying Lawsuits Can Stymie Medical Science, Authors Warn

...hor, Brad A. Racette, M.D., associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, writes from personal experience: His studies tentatively linking welding to increased risk of Parkinson's disease resulted in a torrent of subpoenas for research data. Responding to them slows...

Early Risers are Born That Way, Not Made

...entists led by Dr. Louis J. Ptacek, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco have discovered the modus operandi of Per2 (Period2) the gene mutation responsible for this phenomenon. This genetic alteration had already been identified through a research involving a family of early...

Common BP Drug Treats Muscular Dystrophy

...ins Cohn, an assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at Hopkins. "Running a mile down the street causes microscopic tears in leg muscles, which normally go unnoticed because muscles are so efficient at repairing themselves." Dietz's team then wondered whether the muscle improvement from blocking TGF...

Cancer Scientists' Gene Research Offers New Treatment Hope

...fessor Michael Weller, medical director of general neurology at the University Clinic in Tübingen, who is using smaller molecules of RNA to silence a gene that otherwise protects brain tumours from being attacked by the body's immune system. In experiments on mice with malignant brain cancer all the tumours ...

MRI Better Than CT for Diagnosing Strokes

...0 minutes,” said Dr. Joseph Broderick, chairman of neurology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicin...,” said Dr. Lee Schwamm, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School....

UCLA Find Yields Further Insight into Causes of Parkinson’s Diseas

... Jackson, M.D., Ph.D., UCLA associate professor of neurology and senior scientist at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, wanted to see if they could get the protein to act in a dominant fashion, so they put only one copy of the mutation into their fly model. The result was the deat...

Use Daylight-saving Change to Practice Healthy Sleep Habits

...edtime? Dr. Maha Alattar, assistant professor of neurology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is available to talk about tips for getting our bodies back on track and easing the transition for children. The time change affords an opportunity to learn about, and practice,...

New Reason to Hit the Gym: Fighting Memory Loss

... said Scott A. Small, M.D., associate professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center and the study’s lead author. “I, like many physicians, already encourage my patients to get active and this adds yet another reason to the long list of reasons why exercise is good for overall health.” Publishe...

Online Book Helps Children Understand the Effects of Stroke

... according to Mark P. Goldberg, M.D., professor of neurology and director of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Caring for a recuperating family member can make it challenging to find time to explain to kids the causes and effects of a stroke, w...

Glucose Causes Death of Brain Cells in Rodents Following Hypoglycemic Coma

... investigator Raymond A. Swanson, MD, chief of the neurology and rehabilitation service at SFVAMC. Furthermor...s Swanson, who is also professor and vice-chair of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. 'It was only when we gave them glucose to reverse th...

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

...5 per cent of the disease is not diagnosed even in neurology clinics. In many cases the symptoms just don't show up, other doctors have pointed out. But even in those who have obvious symptoms, the disease is not treated. Sample this, the NIMHANS study shows that 17.8 percent of the people living in old ag...

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