From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via Newswise: Studying how nerve cells send and receive messages, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered new ways that genetic mutations can disrupt functions in neurons and lead to…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: New research shows that sleep loss markedly exaggerates the degree to which we anticipate impending emotional events, particularly among highly anxious people, who are…
From the Mayo Clinic press release via Newswise: Using a new and powerful approach to understand the origins of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida are building the case…
From the Monash University press release via HealthCanal: Doctors will soon be able to identify the early stages of dementia in the 40 per cent of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients in Australia who later develop…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release via HealthCanal: MRI scans from a study being presented today at SLEEP 2012 reveal how sleep deprivation impairs the higher-order regions in the human brain where…
From the Harvard University press release via MedicalXpress: Ask the average person the street how the brain develops, and they’ll likely tell you that the brain’s wiring is built as newborns first begin to experience…
From the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University press release via Newswise: Patients vary widely in their response to concussion, but scientists haven’t understood why. Now, using a new technique for analyzing data…
From the University of Zurich press release: Sportsmen and women dope with the blood hormone Epo to enhance their performance. Researchers from the University of Zurich now discovered by animal testing that Epo has a…
From the Cardiff University press release: A technique which helps people control activity in a specific part of their brain could be used to help ease depression, University research has found. Published in the journal,…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release via AlphaGalileo: A study led by Karolinska Institutet in Sweden reports for the first time the positive effects of an active vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease. The new vaccine, CAD106,…