News tagged with brain disturbance
Trojan horse bacteria use nanobodies to conquer sleeping sickness
Sleeping sickness, caused by the trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei, is transmitted to humans (and animals) via the bite of the tsetse fly. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Microbial Cell Factories ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Malaria medication may help against one type of frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia is caused by a breakdown of nerve cells in the frontal and temporal region of the brain (fronto-temporal lobe), which leads to, among other symptoms, a change in personality and behavior. The cause ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Mount Sinai develops first screening tool for war veterans to assess traumatic brain injury
A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has developed the first web-based screening tool for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). This instrument has recently been used by soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Circadian rhythms: Their role and dysfunction in affective disorder
All humans are synchronised to the rhythmic light-dark changes that occur on a daily basis. Rhythms in physiological and biochemical processes and behavioural patterns persist in the absence of all external 24-hour signals ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Parkinson's Patients More Likely to Stick With Certain 'Add-on' Drugs
Of the three main types of oral drugs commonly added to levodopa therapy for patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease, one might be the most effective, according to a new review.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 09, 2010 |
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Sleep problems are common in US soldiers returning from wartime deployment
There is an extremely high prevalence of sleep disturbances in U.S. soldiers returning from wartime deployment, according to a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 8, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Learning from locusts: Study points toward new treatment for stroke and migraine
A similarity in brain disturbance between insects and people suffering from migraines, stroke and epilepsy points the way toward new drug therapies to address these conditions.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Mystery solved: Tiny protein-activator responsible for brain cell damage in Huntington disease
Johns Hopkins brain scientists have figured out why a faulty protein accumulates in cells everywhere in the bodies of people with Huntington's disease (HD), but only kills cells in the part of the brain that controls movement, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Impaired brain plasticity linked to Angelman syndrome learning deficits
How might disruption of a single gene in the brain cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder? Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 10, 2009 |
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