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  • Mutation in TDP-43 gene may play role in common dementia
    News - 21 Feb 2008
    Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked a mutation in a gene known as TDP-43 to an inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the neurodegenerative...
  • Targeting astrocytes slows progression of Lou Gehrig's disease
    News - 4 Feb 2008
    In what the researchers say could be promising news in the quest to find a therapy to slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, scientists at the University...
  • Overexcited neurons not good for cell health
    News - 18 Dec 2007
    Neurotransmitters have consequences. They initiate events that are critical to a healthy life, giving us the ability to move, to talk, to breathe, to think. But that's if the neurotransmitters are...
  • Research suggests new direction for ALS treatment
    News - 27 Nov 2007
    A research team from Wake Forest University School of Medicine is the first to show that injections of a protein normally found in human cells can increase lifespan and delay the onset of symptoms in...
  • Neural prosthetic devices
    News - 4 Oct 2007
    MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm to help create prosthetic devices that convert brain signals into action in patients who have been paralyzed or had limbs amputated.
  • Discovery of new pathway causing cell death related to frontotemporal dementia and ALS
    News - 27 Sep 2007
    Scientists have discovered a link between a mutated gene and a protein found in dead brain cells of people who suffer from a form of dementia and other neurological disorders.
  • Stem cell therapy rescues motor neurons in ALS model
    News - 3 Aug 2007
    In a study that demonstrates the promise of cell-based therapies for diseases that have proved intractable to modern medicine, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown...
  • Astrocytes may contribute to Lou Gehrig's disease
    News - 16 Apr 2007
    Two papers by Columbia and Harvard researchers report for the first time that astrocytes (the most abundant non-neuronal cells in the central nervous system), which carry a mutated gene known to cause...
  • Scientists find new genes linked to Lou Gehrig's disease
    News - 21 Feb 2007
    In the first genome-wide search for the genetic roots of the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Johns Hopkins scientists have newly identified 34 unique variations in the human...
  • Effective test for screening Huntington's disease drugs
    News - 30 Oct 2006
    A test using cultured cells provides an effective way to screen drugs against Huntington's disease and shows that two compounds - memantine and riluzole - are most effective at keeping cells alive...

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