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Study finds differences in energy use by immune cells in ME/CFS
Thursday, December 12, 2019
New findings published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggest that specific immune T cells from people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) show disruptions in the way they produce energy.
Head-to-head comparison finds three anti-seizure drugs equally effective for severe form of epilepsy
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
There are three treatment options commonly used by doctors in the emergency room to treat patients with refractory status epilepticus, severe seizures that continue even after benzodiazepine medications, which are effective in controlling seizures in more than two-thirds of patients.
Accelerating Medicines Partnership launches data knowledge portal for Parkinson’s disease
Friday, November 22, 2019
The Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) program for Parkinson’s disease (PD) has launched a data portal to provide de-identified information collected from 4,298 PD patients and healthy controls to researchers working to develop effective therapies for the disease.
NIH Awards Funding for Early Autism Screening
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than four million dollars in FY 2019 to support seven research projects aimed at developing and validating screening tools to detect signs of autism spectrum disorder in the first year of life.
Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
High levels of dietary salt can activate a pathway in the brain to cause cognitive impairment, according to a new study.
New NIH BRAIN Initiative awards accelerate neuroscience discoveries
Friday, October 18, 2019
Scientists have been developing astounding new tools for exploring neural circuits that underlie brain function throughout the first five years of the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative. Now, the NIH has announced its...
NIH pairs cutting-edge neuroethics with ground-breaking neurotechnologies
Thursday, October 17, 2019
With support from the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative, scientists are developing powerful new devices and technologies to monitor and regulate brain activity.
Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Using advanced imaging, researchers have uncovered new information regarding traumatic microbleeds, which appear as small, dark lesions on MRI scans after head injury but are typically too small to be detected on CT scans.
‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Between 1999 and 2017, the United States experienced a 10-fold increase in the number of people who died from overdoses of Valium and other benzodiazepines. For years, scientists thought that these powerful sedatives, which are used to treat anxiety, muscle spasms, and sleeping disorders, worked...
