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Researchers Discover Protein Relationship Linked to Brain Malformation
Researchers uncover relationship between two proteins linked to cerebral cavernous malformations Researchers have uncovered new details about the relationship between two proteins associated with the formation of cerebral cavernous malformations, a little understood...
Big data helps discover gephyrin protein’s connection in human history, epilepsy
Big data: It's a term we read and hear about often, but is hard to grasp. Computer scientists at Washington University in St. Louis' School of Engineering & Applied Science tackled some big data about an important protein and discovered its connection in human...
Study: Blood test may help diagnose Fragile X syndrome related disorders in women
A blood test may shed new light on Fragile X syndrome related disorders in women, according to a new study published in the March 25, 2015, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Fragile X is the most common inherited...
Antibiotic pills ‘can hurt unborn baby’: Common drug linked to cerebral palsy and epilepsy
Erythromycin is an antibiotic given for urinary and chest infections Is prescribed during recurrent illness or for people allergic to penicillin Researchers called for a safety review but stressed increased risk is small Overall, study found antibiotics taken...
How Could an International “Data Bank” Improve Epilepsy Care?
Would a Data Bank Fill Epilepsy Care Gaps? Epilepsy has scores of factors, each leading to different treatment strategies and complicating the development of an evidence-based approach to seizure control. Because so few epilepsy patients have the same causative and...
Targeting Brain Metabolism Could Offer New Way To Treat Epilepsy
Targeting Brain Metabolism Could Offer New Way To Treat Epilepsy For about one-third of patients with epilepsy, existing drugs do little to relieve symptoms such as chronic seizures. When they do work, these drugs stop neurons from becoming overexcited by targeting...
Autistic and non-autistic brain differences isolated for first time
New big data methodology can analyse over 1 billion pieces of data The methodology can potentially isolate the areas of the brain involved with other cognitive problems, including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, ADHD and schizophrenia. The functional differences...
Studies are under way to test the effectiveness of a marijuana extract
Studies are under way to test the effectiveness of a marijuana extract that has been hailed as a wonder drug by some parents whose children suffer severe forms of epilepsy. But as initial findings from several researchers trickle in, the results are proving mixed. A...
BREAKTHROUGH: New Compound Shows Anti-Seizure, Anti-inflammatory effects for TBI Treatment
Summary of article: A new compound containing Deuterium called "C-10068" is displaying extremely positive results as a treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). When testing brain trauma response on lab animals (rats), researchers found that doses of C-10068 could...
Fewer multiple births could reduce autism risk in ART children
In a paper published online, scientists report that the incidence of diagnosed autism was twice as high for assisted reproductive technology (ART) as non-ART births among the nearly 6 million children in their study, born in California from 1997 through 2007. However,...
March 26 is PURPLE DAY!
Epilepsy is the most common serious neurological condition in the world. An estimated 50+ million people across the globe are currently living with seizures. Epilepsy is more than three times as common as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy....
Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta Honored for Reporting on Medical Marijuana
Dr. Sanjay Gupta—a practicing neurosurgeon and Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN—recently received the prestigious Alfred I. duPont Award for his work on a pair of influential documentaries on medical marijuana, according to a cover feature in the April issue of...
New scoring system may help predict memory and thinking problems in elderly people
Researchers have developed a new scoring system to help determine which elderly people may be at a higher risk of developing the memory and thinking problems that can lead to dementia, according to a new study published in the March 18, 2015, online issue of...
Researchers discover new cause to explain development of temporal lobe epilepsy
Epilepsy is a very prevalent neurological disorder. Approximately one-third of patients are resistant to currently available therapies. A team of researchers under the guidance of the Institute of Cellular Neurosciences at the University of Bonn has discovered a new...
Researcher explores decoding of complex neural circuits
A University of Wyoming faculty member is part of a research team that created a method, using laser, to better decode complex neural circuits in the brain—a process that eventually may help unlock the mysteries of epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer's in...
Fatal uncoupling in the epileptic brain
Scientists at the University of Bonn discover a new cause of the prevalent seizure disorder. Epilepsy is a very prevalent neurological disorder. Approximately one-third of patients are resistant to currently available therapies. A team of researchers under the...
Fish oil capsules may reduce seizures in people with drug-resistant epilepsy
Approximately 2.3 million adults and around 470,000 children in the US have epilepsy, a lifelong neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures. Now, a new study claims epilepsy patients could reduce seizure frequency by consuming low doses of omega-3 fish...
Epilepsy drug may reverse memory loss of potential Alzheimer’s patients
A common epilepsy drug may reverse a condition that impairs memory in elderly patients and increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a study published this week in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical. The drug, atypical antiepileptic levetiracetam,...
European scientists identify gene linked with certain types of early-onset epilepsy
Treatment may help prevent poor brain development in some cases Certain types of early-onset epilepsy are caused by previously unknown mutations of a potassium channel gene, KCNA2. The mutations disrupt the electrical balance in the brain in two ways. In some...
Quest Diagnostics to provide whole exome sequencing service to diagnose neurological disorders
Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced the availability of Neurome™, a whole exome sequencing service designed to aid the diagnosis of rare neurological disorders in pediatric populations....
