Gene Therapy Slows Progression Of Fatal Neurodegenerative Disease
Gene therapy to replace the faulty CLN2 gene, which causes a neurodegenerative disease that is fatal by age 8-12 years, was able to slow significantly the rate of neurologic decline in treated children.
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Call to make ketogenic diet treatment for epilepsy more available
Study confirms that the ketogenic diet can be effective in reducing seizures in children with drug resistant epilepsy.
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Ketogenic Diet Efficient For Epileptic Seizures
A randomised controlled trial has confirmed the efficacy of the ketogenic diet in helping control and prevent epileptic seizures in children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
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Memory Training May Improve Intelligence
Memory trainings may improve problem solving skills of brain called fluid intelligence, which was previously thought to be unchangeable.
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Brain's Reaction To Potent Hallucinogen
Brain imaging studies show why an increasingly popular recreational drug that causes hallucinations and motor-function impairment in humans is abused.
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Older Epilepsy Drugs Do Not Prevent First Seizure
Many physicians prescribe antiepileptic medications to patients with brain tumors, even to those with no seizure history.
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Human Brain Appears Hard-Wired For Hierarchy
Human imaging studies have for the first time identified brain circuitry associated with social status.
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Research Looks At Protein That Causes Brain Disease
For the first time, researchers have peered deeply at the atomic level into the protein that causes hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) - a disease thought to cause stroke and dementia.
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How Does Human Brain Work
Exploring the brain's microcircuitry has traditionally been done by lining up tiny electrodes within or near single neurons to probe their electrical activity.
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Brain Size May Protect You From Memory Loss
From autopsies, researchers have long known that some people die with sharp minds and perfect memories, but their brains riddled with the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's disease.
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Bringing Wisdom To Aging Brains
Cutting edge research explores how science and technology can be applied today to help aging adults live better.
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Brain Doping In Academics, No Joking
Nature survey shows that 20 percent of 1400 participant scientists had used cognition enhancing drugs to stimulate focus and concentration or memory.
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A Small Gland With Big Influence
The pituitary is a small bean-shaped gland that sits at the base of the skull, below the brain and behind the nasal sinuses.
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Brain Tumor Patients Benefit From Chemotherapy Pill
People have tried treating brain tumors using chemo-radiation therapy combination treatments for decades.
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Brain Lesions More Common Than Previously Thought
New research shows cerebral microbleeds, which are lesions in the brain, are more common in people over 60 than previously thought.
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Cell Phones Dangerous Due To Brain Cancer Risk
New evidence on mobile phone hazard as cell phone usage is linked to brain cancer.
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Strategies To Heighten Epilepsy Treatment Expectations
Survey reveals room for improvement in balancing Epilepsy seizure control and side effects as well as improve treatment options.
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New Technique Uses Onyx To Fill Hard-To-Treat Aneurysms
On Sunday, Diane Long struggled with double vision because of a large aneurysm in her brain compressing a nerve that controls eye movement.
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Brain wiring also guided by growth hormone
A human hormone known to stimulate the growth of cells throughout the body has a new role - helping to set up the proper nerve connections in the odor center of the brain.
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Monkey Brains Provide Clues To Understanding Social Behavior
Researchers have pinpointed neurons in the brains of monkeys that may help explain how people make decisions in social situations and could aid understanding of autism.
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Brain's Blood Supply Guides Its Own Development
Study paints a radically different picture of how the brain's blood supply develops.
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Srudy Examines Antioxidants, Memory Concerns
A clinical trial to evaluate whether taking Cerefolin NAC reduces the inflammation and oxidative stress that is associated with memory decline in older persons.
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Bird Brains Suggest How Vocal Learning Evolved
Though they perch far apart on the avian family tree, birds with the ability to learn songs use similar brain structures to sing their tunes.
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Brain Fitness Training Promotes Health
Researchers will unveil a new brain fitness training program that help people maintain health-related quality of life and improve the performance of daily living tasks essential to independence.
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Brain Training Program Improves Quality Of Life
A computer-based brain fitness training program that speeds up and sharpens the brain's ability to process visual information.
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New Discovery To Ease PMT, Epilepsy
Scientists have found how pre-menstrual tension and epilepsy affects brain and give hope for developing way to control brain receptors and block the symptoms.
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Brain Exercising Tips
Brain is an important organ of the body and it is extremely important to exercise it and keep in shape.
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Pollution Affects Brain Function
Pollution from diesel engines affects brain function.
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How Brain Reacts On Doughnuts
Researchers conducted an interesting study on how brain brain reacts on food images when a person is hungry and when he is full.
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Rusty Worms In Human Brain
Nanomineralization of iron: Does the iron transporter transferrin play a role in neurodegenerative diseases?
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The Importance of Brain Fitness as We Age
Taking care of ourselves now includes things we may not have considered in the past, like brain fitness - the idea of working our mental muscles keep our minds sharp.
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RNA-Associated Introns Guide Nerve-Cell Channel Production
Introns associated with RNA are an important molecular guide to making nerve-cell electrical channels.
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Chemical chaperone could open door to treatment of neurological disorder
An unexpected finding turned out to be a clue leading to a new treatment approach for Niemann-Pick disease, a rare, deadly neurodegenerative disorder.
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Video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women
Researchers have shown that the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more activated in men than women during video-game play.
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Neurosurgeons Using New Liquid Treatment For Wide-Neck Brain Aneurysm
Neurological are using an FDA-approved liquid system for treating wide-necked brain aneurysms, which could eventually replace current treatments.
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Creative, noncreative problem solvers show different patterns of brain
Why do some people solve problems more creatively than others? Are people who think creatively somehow different from those who tend to think in a more methodical fashion?
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Deep brain stimulation may improve memory
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, which is used to treat Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, is now being studied for its potential to treat a variety of conditions.
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Researchers identify brain's 'eureka' circuitry
Researchers have found the brain region that controls the decision to halt your midnight exploration of the refrigerator and commence enjoyment of that leftover chicken leg.
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Study Finds Significant Differences In Protocols Hospitals Use To Determine Brain Death
A survey of some hospitals has found that protocols followed to determine brain death differ significantly among those institutions.
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Major Gaps Found In Care Of Traumatic Brain Injuries
There are major gaps in identifying and treating traumatic brain injuries in servicemembers.
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