From the SOCIETY OF NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SURGERY media release: Despite efforts to close the time gap between symptom onset and stroke treatment – including improvements in public education, 911 dispatch operations, pre-hospital detection and triage, hospital stroke…
From the UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA media release: The rapid spread of a common and deadly brain tumor has been slowed down significantly in a mouse model by cutting off the way some cancer cells communicate, according…
From the Northwestern University media release: Some stressful experiences — such as chronic childhood abuse — are so overwhelming and traumatic, the memories hide like a shadow in the brain. At first, hidden memories that can’t…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign media release: In the summer of 2012, Olga Kotelko, a 93-year-old Canadian track-and-field athlete with more than 30 world records in her age group, visited the Beckman Institute for…
From the Indiana University media release: People being treated for bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses are at greater risk of attempting suicide, but physicians may now have tools to predict which of those individuals will…
From the Elsevier media release: Anyone who has seen pictures or models of the human brain is aware that the outside layer, or cortex, of the brain is folded in an intricate pattern of “hills,” called…
From the UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA media release: The rapid spread of a common and deadly brain tumor has been slowed down significantly in a mouse model by cutting off the way some cancer cells communicate, according…
From the UC Berkeley media release: Like Duke Ellington’s 1931 jazz standard, the human brain improvises while its rhythm section keeps up a steady beat. But when it comes to taking on intellectually challenging tasks,…
From the Columbia University Medical Center media release: Researchers have discovered why long-term use of L-DOPA (levodopa), the most effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease, commonly leads to a movement problem called dyskinesia, a side effect that…
From the NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke media release: Cells are powered by tiny energy reactors called mitochondria. When damaged, they leak destructive molecules that can cause substantial harm and eventually kill brain cells.…