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Developmental, neurologic problems common in extremely preterm infants

Extremely preterm infants born before 25 weeks' gestation often have severe neurologic and developmental disabilities, researchers report in the August 10th issue of The New EnglandJournal of Medicine.The EPICure Study Group identified 308 children born at the gestational age of 25 weeks or earlier in the UK and Ireland. Of these, 283 were assessed for neurologic function Based on their l...

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

Antioxidants may be able to treat the neurological problems that are common in kidney failure.More than 300,000 people in the US suffer from kidney failure, which is usually caused by diabetes, high blood pressure or infection. Kidney failure often leads to neurological complications like fatigue, apathy, emotional instability and even convulsions and coma. // Researchers at the Uni...

Link between athleticism and neurological disease

Neurological diseases seen in people who were student athletes and have always been slim are more likely to develop. Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS)// is a rare and invariably fatal neurological condition. It's sometimes known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous baseball player whose career was cut short by it. Oddly, researchers have now discovered a link between being athletic and deve...

Botox for children with neurological impairments

Botox may be used to treat the problem of severe drooling by children suffering from neurological conditions// like cerebral palsy. Children suffering from cerebral palsy and other similar diseases have no cognition and hence do not have the control over the salivary reflex. This condition often leads to sores, and other physical discomfort apart from being a constant problem for paren...

Lorenzos oil for prevention of pediatric neurological disorder

Investigations have shown that daily oral doses of Lorenzos oil can prevent the spread of a form of pediatric neurological disorder// called X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). Researchers from Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore have reported that use of Lorenzos oil have prevented the spread of the disease X-ALD in boys aged 7 years and younger who were diagnosed with the dise...

Neurological Disorders Overcome By Proteins

Proteins have been known to be useful in muscle repair and buildup. They have an important role to play in the metabolic activities// of the body as well. Scientists have discovered a new protein that controls development of brain cells and could eventually lead to medical interventions to help those with neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis, reports Xinhua...

Multiple Sclerosis drug, Tysabri banned due to neurological disorders

Tysabri, which is used in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), has been withdrawn from market after the two patients taking the drug complained of neurological disorders. The relationship between the drug and // Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) is being researched by the scientists. If the drug is deemed to pose a significant risk, it could be a serious setback for the entire...

Influenza Vaccination for children with neurological or neuromuscular disease

A new research shows that in Children with neurological or neuromuscular diseases are at increased risk for developing respiratory failure ,if they're hospitalized with influenza.// The results, which are reported in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, are based on a study of 745 children who were hospitalized for influenza at The Children's Hospital of Philad...

Neurological Damage Can Be Reduced By Stem Cell Transplants

According to the new study, funded by Athersys Inc., a U.S. biopharmaceutical company, Cesario V. Borlongan, an associate professor of neurology// at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and his colleagues transplanted human bone marrow cells into the brains of rats that had suffered strokes. This they claim has helped the rat to fight a condition very similar to the human cerebral palsy. <b...

PTSD Risk Enhanced With Mild Neurologic Deficits

A study conducted on identical male twins has revealed that Vietnam war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their non-combat exposed, identical twins portrayed// slight neurologic deficits that veterans without PTSD and their twins did not have, suggesting that the existence of deficits may actually predispose individuals to PTSD, according to an article in the May issue of Ar...

Neurologists Call For National Stroke Prevention Policy

Neurologists across the country today called for mass screening to identify people prone to brain strokes and urged the Centre to develop a national stroke prevention policy. // On the eve of World Stroke Day, the medicos also sought to bust popular myths about strokes -- widely and wrongly believed to be related to the heart and not the brain. "Unlike heart attacks, peopl...

Neurology behind Drinking in Teenagers

For as long as one can remember concerned adults have tried to limit teenage alcohol consumption. Public health experts often warn that teenage drinkers //show increased risks of involvement in car accidents, and fights. But while early drinking was blamed for time away from homework acquiring social skills, and other related tasks of growing up mounting research has shown that alcohol...

Pick Apples for Good Neurological Health, Says New Research

For those who think that picking and eating apples this time of year is just for fun and for the great taste of America’s favorite fruit, you may want to think again. //Apples and apple juice may be among the best foods that anyone could add to their diet, finds a collection of recent research studies, the latest of which was presented today at the Society of Neuroscience annual conference in Atl...

Rare Neurological Disorder Linked to Flu shot

Vaccination against flu can trigger a potentially debilitating neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome in rare cases// according to Canadian researchers, although they do stress that these findings should not make people shy away from getting their shots. Lead author of the study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Dr. David Juurlink, said, "It is very...

Detection of Neurological Disorder is Just a Sniff Away!!

Simple sniff tests will now help detection of Neurological disorders in their early stage or even the chances of developing any of them//. Melbourne researchers have found a relationship between identification of various smells such as coffee, whisky, roses and bleach and neurological disorders such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Scientific di...

Cocaine During Pregnancy can Cause Behavioral and Neurological Problems in the Child

A recent study by scientists at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development has observed an apparent link between prenatal exposure to cocaine and behavioral //and neurological problems in the child. In a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, Gregg Stanwood, Ph.D., and Pat Levitt, Ph.D., have elaborated about the impact of prenatal exposure to cocaine in rabb...

America Sags Under Burden of Neurological Diseases

It is a research that throws light on the extent of neurological ailments in the land of dreams//. Compiling data from reams of medical research, Deborah Hirtz, and colleagues from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke analyzed 12 of the most common and treated neurological diseases in the country. The team focused on research data from the last 15 yea...

Incidence of Neurological Disorders on the Rise

A review of data available on most of the common neurological disorders in the United States finds that the prevalence of Multiple Sclerosis// and Alzheimer’s diseases had increased since 1982. The study found nearly one out of 1,000 people have multiple sclerosis (MS). "Our estimate of MS prevalence is about 50 percent higher than a comprehensive review from 1982. Whether this reflec...

Delhi to Host South Asian Neurologists' Congress

Nearly 600 neurosurgeons from south Asia along with renowned specialists from the US, Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia//, and Canada are meeting in the Indian capital to discuss several health concerns related to brain. During the meet beginning February 15, they would discuss latest developments and future trends in the treatment of brain tumors, hemorrhage, crania vertebral anomal...

WHO States, “One Billion People Are Affected By Neurological Disorders

Neurological ailments varying from migraines to Alzheimer's disease affect almost one billion people across the world. This was reported// by WHO in ‘Neurological disorders: Public health challenges’. The report states that 24 million people are affected by disease like Alzheimer's and other dementias and 50 million are hit by epilepsy which requires far-reaching care. These issues are...

Neurological Recovery Aided by Manliness

A study conducted by Glenn Good and team from University of Missouri, Columbia indicates that the masculine tendencies aid in the recovery of neurological injuries//. While it has been assumed all along that such tendencies were the barriers to good health, this study offers a new dimension to this issue. Generally it has been said that men don’t take care of their health. But the same...

Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery and Neurological Conditions

A decade-long study by neurologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has found a link between the increasingly popular weight-loss surgery known as gastric bypass and several serious neurological conditions. Katalin Juhasz Pocsine, M.D., associate professor in the UAMS Department of Neurology, is lead author of the study. The study concludes...

Neurological Disorder Gene Identified

University of Michigan research laboratory scientists have identified the gene responsible for one type of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, a common inherited neurological disease, thanks to the chance appearance of a strain of impaired pale tremor mice . The discovery of the gene mutation means a genetic test will be possible for people with a less common subtype of the disorder -- one...