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,…
From the Indiana University press release via Newswise: An Indiana University biologist has shown that natural variation in measures of the brain’s ability to process steroid hormones predicts functional variation in aggressive behavior. The new…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release via Newswise: Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified a brain receptor that appears to play a central role in regulating appetite. The findings, published…
From the Gladstone Institutes press release: Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have for the first time transformed skin cells — with a single genetic factor — into cells that develop on their own into an…