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The human brain is the center of the human nervous system and is a highly complex organ. Enclosed in the cranium, it has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over three times as large as the brain of a typical mammal with an equivalent body size.

UVA physician helps develop new CDC treatment recommendations for children with concussions

A University of Virginia Health System emergency medicine physician helped develop new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment recommendations for children with concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injury.

5 Sep 2018

New project receives $3 million NIH grant to create 3D map of brain’s blood vessels

The brain contains a complex web of tiny blood vessels that are responsible for supplying oxygen and nutrients to neurons and other cells. Scientists know they're there, but they don't know exactly what they look like -- or exactly how they work.

5 Sep 2018

Clinical recommendations regarding mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) released

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released fresh clinical recommendations for health care personnel for treatment of children suffering from concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

4 Sep 2018

New strategy shows promise to tap earliest Alzheimer's changes in the brain

Finding an effective way to identify people with mild cognitive impairment who are most likely to go on to develop Alzheimer's disease has eluded researchers for years.

4 Sep 2018

Researchers identify Zika virus proteins with potential to affect brain development

In healthy individuals, the Zika virus causes flu-like symptoms. If a pregnant woman becomes infected, the unborn child can suffer from severe brain abnormalities as a result of mechanisms that have not yet been explained.

4 Sep 2018

Improving neurosurgery for malignant brain tumors

Important research by Barrow Neurological Institute neurosurgeons and University of Washington (UW) scientists on novel imaging technology for malignant brain tumors was published in the August issue of the Nature journal, Scientific Reports.

4 Sep 2018

Dopamine receptor study opens door to targeted treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders

New work from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons sheds light on how dopamine receptors signal within cells, opening the door for more targeted--and more tolerable--therapeutics to treat an array of neuropsychiatric disorders.

4 Sep 2018

Looking deep inside the brain to accurately diagnose bipolar disorder and depression

New research has found that neurons deep inside the brain could hold the key to accurately diagnosing bipolar disorder and depression.

4 Sep 2018

Brain’s attention network plays key role in vision restoration after stroke, trauma

About one third of patients who have suffered a stroke end up with low vision, losing up to half of their visual field. This partial blindness was long considered irreversible, but recent studies have shown that vision training after optic nerve and brain damage can help restore or improve vision. A new study published in the journal Clinical Neurophysiology reports on key mechanisms of vision restoration: attention.

4 Sep 2018

Study reveals sex-specific differences in mice microglia

Researchers in Berlin have described significant differences in the brain immune cells (microglia) of male and female mice.

4 Sep 2018

Penumbra introduces new advancements in stroke thrombectomy aspiration technology

Penumbra, Inc., a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies, today announced U.S. commercial availability of the Penumbra System's most advanced technology: Penumbra JET 7 and Penumbra JET D Reperfusion Catheters powered by the Penumbra ENGINE aspiration source.

4 Sep 2018

Researchers discover key aspect in pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis

A team of researchers the University of Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich has shown that in multiple sclerosis, it is not only specific T cells that cause inflammation and lesions in the brain.

4 Sep 2018

Creating rituals to honor the dead at long-term-care facilities

One by one, their names were recited as family members clutched one another's hands and silently wept.

4 Sep 2018

Eye-movement intervention reduces amygdala activity during recall of traumatic memory

Two human experiments published in JNeurosci demonstrate that a widely used yet controversial psychotherapy technique suppresses fear-related amygdala activity during recall of a traumatic memory.

From Society for Neuroscience 4 Sep 2018

Study: Dementia symptoms likely to be most pronounced in winter and early spring

Adults both with and without Alzheimer’s disease have better cognition skills in the late summer and early fall than in the winter and spring, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Andrew Lim of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues.

4 Sep 2018

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UVA physician helps develop new CDC treatment recommendations for children with concussions

New project receives $3 million NIH grant to create 3D map of brain’s blood vessels

Clinical recommendations regarding mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) released

New strategy shows promise to tap earliest Alzheimer's changes in the brain

Researchers identify Zika virus proteins with potential to affect brain development

Improving neurosurgery for malignant brain tumors

Dopamine receptor study opens door to targeted treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders

Looking deep inside the brain to accurately diagnose bipolar disorder and depression

Brain’s attention network plays key role in vision restoration after stroke, trauma

Study reveals sex-specific differences in mice microglia

Penumbra introduces new advancements in stroke thrombectomy aspiration technology

Researchers discover key aspect in pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis

Creating rituals to honor the dead at long-term-care facilities

Eye-movement intervention reduces amygdala activity during recall of traumatic memory

Study: Dementia symptoms likely to be most pronounced in winter and early spring

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