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How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing

...w people with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder cope with traumatic events and memories. It is known that people with such problems are far more affected by emotional distraction. Development of new drugs to alleviate, for example, the haunting memories of PTSD sufferers will be aided by the fMR...

Utah researchers confirm chromosome may harbor autism gene

...nded Utah family that has a high occurrence of the disorder and whose members are descended from one couple. ...hought it was important." Autism is a behavioral disorder that strikes before age 3 and is characterized by impaired ability in social interactions and commun...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

....S. and around the world. Public awareness of the disorder increased with the release of the film "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" starring John Travolta as a child stricken with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) who lived in a plastic enclosure until his death. Exciting New Breakthroughs in Diagn...

Defective immune system response to smallpox vaccine detailed in new study

...f atopic dermatitis, a common, non-contagious skin disorder also known as eczema. "This new research, the first to be published by Atopic Dermatitis and Vaccinia Network scientists, illuminates one potential mechanism leading to eczema vaccinatum and improves our understanding of the immune responses to smal...

Study finds drug may cut down involuntary movements

...ates. "Huntington's disease is an inherited brain disorder that causes patients to experience uncontrollable ...ntington's disease, an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that worsens as brain cells known as medium spiny neurons are killed off by a mutant protein. The ...

Cell therapy slows progression of an inherited neurological disease; Improves motor skills in mice

...trophy, or MLD, a fatal, relatively rare inherited disorder that in humans usually begins early in life. In the disease, the fatty substance sulfatide accumulates in the brain due to the lack of an enzyme and causes loss of the white matter or myelin protecting nerve fibers. Without myelin, nerves cannot cond...

UCLA scientists find male gene in brain area targeted by Parkinson's

...UCLA. "Our findings may offer new clues to how the disorder affects men and women differently, and shed light on why men are more susceptible to the disease." In 1990, British researchers identified SRY as the gene that determines gender and makes embryos male. Located on the male sex chromosome, SRY manufac...

Feinstein researchers identify intelligence gene

...individuals with schizophrenia, a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by cognitive impairment, and compare...ian patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and 126 unrelated healthy Caucasian volunteers. The researchers measured cognitive performance in al...

Experimental vaccine protects nonhuman primates when given after exposure to Marburg virus

...ts suffer from some form of central nervous system disorder in the course of their infection, ranging from minor cognitive and motor disorders to severe dementia, collectively known as neuroAIDS. Even subtle neurocognitive disorders limit quality of life with symptoms such as fatigue, and are correlated with ...

Immune response to HIV in the brain

...ts suffer from some form of central nervous system disorder in the course of their infection, ranging from minor cognitive and motor disorders to severe dementia, collectively known as neuroAIDS. Even subtle neurocognitive disorders limit quality of life with symptoms such as fatigue, and are correlated with ...

Ancient DNA helps UF researchers unearth potential hemophilia therapy

...ention. Currently, the only safe treatment for the disorder is a purified form of the protein, but it can cost patients thousands of dollars and its effects don't last long. Scientists have been trying to find a safe way to perform gene therapy in hemophilia patients for years, but problems with the viruses t...

Rare Tibetan antelope listed as endangered

... the heart in patients with atrial fibrillation, a disorder characterized by an abnormal heart rhythm. In order to demonstrate this possible use, the researchers produced real-time 3D images of a dog's right pulmonary veins -?sites that are targeted in treating atrial fibrillation. Similar 3D ultrasound dev...

3D ultrasound device poised to advance minimally invasive surgery

... the heart in patients with atrial fibrillation, a disorder characterized by an abnormal heart rhythm. In order to demonstrate this possible use, the researchers produced real-time 3D images of a dog's right pulmonary veins -?sites that are targeted in treating atrial fibrillation. Similar 3D ultrasound dev...

In SAD patients, autumn antidepressants can prevent winter depression

For patients with seasonal affective disorder (SAD), starting treatment with an antidepressant medication during the fall can reduce the risk of developing depression throughout the fall and winter months, reports a study in the Oct. 15 issue of Biological Psychiatry, official journal of the Soc...

Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism

... scans of people with autism and those without the disorder as they performed a one-hour task that required them to attend to certain items in the visual environment while disregarding other items. Specifically, participants wore special goggles through which were displayed pictures of arrows (non-social item...

Scientists move forward understanding of schizophrenia

...hances of people developing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (manic depression) and major clinical depression. Now, new research by the two Universities and by scientists from the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharpe and Dohme reveals that damage to the gene PDE4B is also seen to increase the risk of developin...

Anti-cancer drugs may hold promise for premature aging disorder

...in laboratory studies for treating a fatal genetic disorder that causes premature aging. In a study published...tly no treatments for progeria, which is a genetic disorder estimated to affect one child in 4 million. When they are born, children with progeria appear normal...

Building a better mouse model of lung cancer: FHIT counts

...ion called Von-Hippel Lindau disease, an inherited disorder characterized by abnormal blood vessel growth in the eyes, brain, spinal cord, adrenal gland and other parts of the body. The scientists exposed mice deficient in both genes to a second carcinogen, DMN, which is also found in smoke but also in beer,...

Gene therapy works in mice to prevent blindness that strikes boys

...apy in mice to treat retinoschisis, a rare genetic disorder that is passed from mothers, who retain their sight, to their sons. "Currently there is no treatment," said William Hauswirth, Ph.D., the Rybaczki-Bullard professor of ophthalmic molecular genetics. "These children lose their sight gradually, often ...

Prenatal exposure to famine increases risk of schizophrenia

...nia is increasingly viewed as a neurodevelopmental disorder with environmental influences during early brain development modifying risk of schizophrenia. These influences, none of which are yet firmly established, include fetal nutritional deficiency. A previous study found that there was twice the risk of sc...

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