Category: "Treatment"

Recovery from TBI appears to go hand-in-hand with improvement of sleep problems

Recovery from TBI appears to go hand-in-hand with improvement of sleep problems

After a traumatic brain injury (TBI), people also experience major sleep problems, including changes in their sleep-wake cycle. A new study shows that recovering from these two conditions occurs in parallel. The study is published in the December 21, 2016, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

AVOIDING SIDE EFFECTS: Trial Administers Epilepsy Drugs Directly to the Brain

AVOIDING SIDE EFFECTS: Trial Administers Epilepsy Drugs Directly to the Brain

WORLD-first trial will deliver medication directly into the brain of epilepsy patients to sidestep the ­devastating side-effects of tablets. The pioneering treatment aims to be a game-changer for neurological conditions more widely by getting a drug directly where it is needed. The St Vincent’s Hospital team has implanted a pump in their first ­patient. The […]

A strategy for efficiently converting stem cells to neurons offers a potent neurological research tool

A strategy for efficiently converting stem cells to neurons offers a potent neurological research tool

Neurological disorders are especially challenging to study in the laboratory, in part because of limited access to fully functional human neurons. Now, a powerful technique for reliably producing a subset of neurons involved with common neurological disorders has been developed by a team of Singaporean researchers led by Hyunsoo Je of the DUKE-NUS Medical School.

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