Press Releases

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MRI scan of human brain showing tarumatic microbleeds
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.

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Picture of Shisa7 proteins in green and GABA type A neurotransmitter receptor proteins in red. White arrows and yellow spots represent clustering of the two proteins.
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 alone to calm nerves.

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Depiction of mouse brain neuron activity during rapid eye movement sleep.
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep is a fascinating period when most of our dreams are made. Now, in a study of mice, a team of Japanese and U.S. researchers show that it may also be a time when the brain actively forgets.

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Cartoon of annexin A11 guiding hitchhiking through a neuron
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Affecting at least 14,000 Americans, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a paralyzing and highly fatal neurodegenerative disorder for which there are no effective treatments. Scientists peered inside neurons and watched the workings of annexin A11, a gene linked to a rare form of ALS.

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Picture of petri dish used for lab research
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Recently the National Institutes of Health called on researchers to make the standards and practices for conducting early stage, or preclinical, medical research on animals more like those used for clinical trials.

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Example of brain scan used in study of blood pressure on brain health.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

In a nationwide study, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of hundreds of participants in the National Institutes of Health’s Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) and found that intensively controlling a person’s blood pressure was more effective at slowing the accumulation of white matter lesions than standard treatment of high blood pressure.

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Example brain scan used in NIH study of multiple sclerosis.
Monday, August 12, 2019

NIH study provides hope for diagnosing and testing effectiveness of new treatments for more disabling forms of multiple sclerosis

Aided by a high-powered brain scanner and a 3D printer, NIH researchers peered inside the brains of hundreds of multiple sclerosis patients and found that dark rimmed spots representing ongoing, “smoldering” inflammation, called chronic active lesions, may be a hallmark of more aggressive and disabling forms of the disease.

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Group of doctors talking
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Hyperglycemia, or high levels of glucose, is common in patients with acute ischemic stroke and is associated with worse outcomes compared to normal blood sugar levels.

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Doctor speaking with female patient
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Pelvic pain associated with endometriosis often becomes chronic and can persist (or recur) following surgical and hormonal interventions.

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Human brain showing hearing centers
Monday, June 10, 2019

In the eternal search for understanding what makes us human, scientists found that our brains are more sensitive to pitch, the harmonic sounds we hear when listening to music, than our evolutionary relative the macaque monkey.

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