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Dog food preservative may prevent nerve damage in patients taking chemotherapy

Working with cells in test tubes and in mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that a chemical commonly used as a dog food preservative may prevent the kind of painful nerve damage found in the hands and feet of four out of five cancer patients taking the chemotherapy drug Taxol.

20 Sep 2013

An in-depth approach to examine placebo effect and its impact on doctor-patient relationship

The findings of a comprehensive review of the placebo phenomenon and its consequences for clinical medicine are contained in a new article, "Placebo and the New Physiology of the Doctor-Patient Relationship," (http://bit.ly/14QfSur) published in Physiological Reviews.

20 Sep 2013

Florida Hospital To Evaluate VTT’S Alzheimer’S Biomarker Assay

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is taking an important step toward advancing its Alzheimer's disease biomarker by collaborating with the Florida Hospital Neuroscience Institute to evaluate screening, diagnostic, and prognostic potential of the biomarker assay and utilize it to specifically target which types of precautions to take when approaching early stages of the disease.

19 Sep 2013

Research offers new perspectives on cortical structure's development

The cerebral cortex is the most complex and vital structure in our brain. It is the nerve centre for those "higher" functions that characterise our species, such as language and abstract thought. The nerve cells - or neurons - which comprise the cortex are key elements in ensuring its functions effectively.

19 Sep 2013

Postpartum sexuality: an interview with Dr Sari van Anders, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research on postpartum seems to have focused on birth mothers for good reason: women (and, of course, some transmen) are the ones who carry a pregnancy and give birth, and the postpartum is conceptualized as “following birth”.

19 Sep 2013

Study: Bird brain can serve as useful model to study human brain

Pursuing their interests in using the brains of birds as a model for the human brain, an international team of researchers led by Duke neuroscientist Erich Jarvis and his collaborators Chun-Chun Chen and Kazuhiro Wada have just completed a mapping of the bird brain based on a 10-year exploration of the tiny cerebrums of eight species of birds.

19 Sep 2013

Decompression surgery: An effective procedure for cervical spondylotic myelopathy

In a world-first, decompression surgery has been shown to be an effective procedure to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy - a common progressive, degenerative disease of the spine that can lead to paralysis - according to the results of a multi-centre clinical trial published today.

19 Sep 2013

Research opens up longer therapy window for children with neurodevelopmental disorders

The development of fine motor control-the ability to use your fingertips to manipulate objects-takes longer than previously believed, and isn't entirely the result of brain development, according to a pair of complementary studies.

19 Sep 2013

NIH announces $45 million grant to find effective interventions for Alzheimer's

The National Institutes of Health announced on Wednesday the award of a new research grant to discover, characterize and validate complex molecular networks and candidate genes that influence susceptibility to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.

19 Sep 2013

New information about how estrogens regulate memory formation

The loss of estrogens at menopause increases a woman's risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, yet hormone replacement therapy can cause harmful side effects.

19 Sep 2013

Researchers identify likely molecular pathway that causes untreatable neurodegenerative diseases

University of Adelaide researchers have identified a likely molecular pathway that causes a group of untreatable neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease.

19 Sep 2013

New evidence suggests that taking vitamin B supplements may help reduce risk of stroke

New evidence suggests that taking vitamin B supplements may help reduce the risk of stroke. The research appears in the September 18, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

19 Sep 2013

Discovery of gene essential for memory extinction could lead to new PTSD treatments

If you got beat up by a bully on your walk home from school every day, you would probably become very afraid of the spot where you usually met him. However, if the bully moved out of town, you would gradually cease to fear that area.

19 Sep 2013

Florida Hospital and VTT of Finland collaborate to predict early onsets of Alzheimer's disease

In an effort to better understand the development of Alzheimer's disease, Florida Hospital Neuroscience Institute and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland are collaborating to identify the biomarker assay that may predict early onsets of the disease.

18 Sep 2013

UCSF neuroscientist wins Barancik Prize for multiple sclerosis research

Neuroscientist Jonah Chan, PhD, at the University of California, San Francisco, is the first recipient of a new international prize launched to recognize innovation and progress in multiple sclerosis research.

17 Sep 2013

Kessler Foundation researcher honored for excellence in physical medicine and rehabilitation

Mooyeon Oh-Park, M.D., of Kessler Foundation was named 2013 "Teacher of the Year" in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. This award is given each year to a faculty member who demonstrated outstanding knowledge in physical medicine and rehabilitation as well as dedication and skills in teaching.

17 Sep 2013

Repeated exposure to low level blasts causes harmful effects in brain

Repeated exposure to low level blasts (LLB) can cause symptoms similar to sports concussion. Soldiers or law enforcement officers called "breachers" receive training in using low level blasts for forced entry.

17 Sep 2013

Oxytocin shows evidence of therapeutic value for autism, schizophrenia

The hormone oxytocin could play a role in treating psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, according to a review article in the September Harvard Review of Psychiatry. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

17 Sep 2013

Longer time sevoflurane preconditioning does not grant better neuroprotective effects, says study

Sevoflurane belongs to volatile anesthetics, and preconditioning with sevoflurane has been shown to exert protective effects against ischemic injury in the brain. But the mechanism is unclear.

13 Sep 2013

Discovery sheds light on boundaries between brain regions

If the violins were taken away from the musicians performing Beethoven's 9th symphony, the resulting composition would sound very different. If the violins were left on stage but the violinists were removed, the same mutant version of the symphony would be heard.

13 Sep 2013

Neuroscience News and Research

Dog food preservative may prevent nerve damage in patients taking chemotherapy

An in-depth approach to examine placebo effect and its impact on doctor-patient relationship

Florida Hospital To Evaluate VTT’S Alzheimer’S Biomarker Assay

Research offers new perspectives on cortical structure's development

Postpartum sexuality: an interview with Dr Sari van Anders, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Study: Bird brain can serve as useful model to study human brain

Decompression surgery: An effective procedure for cervical spondylotic myelopathy

Research opens up longer therapy window for children with neurodevelopmental disorders

NIH announces $45 million grant to find effective interventions for Alzheimer's

New information about how estrogens regulate memory formation

Researchers identify likely molecular pathway that causes untreatable neurodegenerative diseases

New evidence suggests that taking vitamin B supplements may help reduce risk of stroke

Discovery of gene essential for memory extinction could lead to new PTSD treatments

Florida Hospital and VTT of Finland collaborate to predict early onsets of Alzheimer's disease

UCSF neuroscientist wins Barancik Prize for multiple sclerosis research

Kessler Foundation researcher honored for excellence in physical medicine and rehabilitation

Repeated exposure to low level blasts causes harmful effects in brain

Oxytocin shows evidence of therapeutic value for autism, schizophrenia

Longer time sevoflurane preconditioning does not grant better neuroprotective effects, says study

Discovery sheds light on boundaries between brain regions

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