Archive for the ‘Neurology / Neuroscience’ Category
Monday, February 18th, 2008
It was no way for an 11-year-old to live. For a month the boy had endured daily episodes of uncontrollable jerking and foaming at the mouth, and his physicians at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford were concerned that the boy had epilepsy. Before starting the boy on a lifetime ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Six forms of spinal cerebellar ataxia (SCA1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 17) are caused by dominant mutations in the respective genes. Patients suffering from these different forms of SCA have similar symptoms of progressive adult-onset neurodegeneration, and the same causative mutation, a CAG repeat expansion encoding an expanded run ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
CardioVascular BioTherapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: CVBT) announced that its investigational study to establish non-invasively the correlation of under-perfusion with disc degeneration has been accepted for presentation by Dr. Vance Gardner at the invitation-only World Forum for Spine Research meeting to be held Jan. 23-26, 2008 in Kyoto, Japan.
CVBT is conducting this ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced the presentation of additional Phase 1b clinical data from its ZFP Therapeutic(TM) program at Neuroscience 2007, the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The data demonstrate statistically significant improvements in quantitative measurements of neurological health in subjects with diabetic neuropathy (DN), suggesting ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
A drug developed and tested at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) targeted at malignant brain tumors known as glioma has shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial, according to results presented at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology annual meeting. The findings indicate that an intravenous ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Children who possess a gene known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease already show signs of reduced cognitive function, an Oregon Health & Science University study has found.
Scientists in the OHSU School of Medicine discovered that 7- to 10-year-olds with a member of a family of genes implicated in ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
In hopes of combating the growing scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, in particular drug-resistant staph bacteria, a team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has designed a new type of vaccine that could one day be used in humans to block the onset of infection. The advantage of the new ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
New UC Irvine research is among the first to demonstrate that neural stem cells may help to restore memory after brain damage.
In the study, mice with brain injuries experienced enhanced memory -- similar to the level found in healthy mice -- up to three months after receiving a stem cell ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
M. Eugenia Chiappe, Andrei S. Kozlov, and A. J. Hudspeth
What does a nocturnal, tree-climbing, not-so-friendly lizard have to offer neuroscience? These animals have finely tuned hearing, presumably because they emit vocal signals for territoriality, mating, and distress calls. Chiappe et al. show that, like evolutionarily distinct mammals and birds, geckos ...
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