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Monday, July 7, 2014
How Aging Can Intensify Damage of Spinal Cord Injury
Researchers from The Ohio State University have found that in spinal cord injury, immune cells in the central nervous system of elderly mice fail to activate an important signaling pathway, dramatically lowering chances for repair after injury. These …
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Monday, July 7, 2014
Heparin Derivative Suppresses Neuroblastoma Tumor Growth
Researchers at Duke Medicine have identified a new strategy for treating neuroblastoma using a modified version of heparin. The aninal study, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that when heparin is altered to remove its …
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
Advancing Care for Patients with Brain Metastases
In a recent article published in the July issue of Neurosurgery, led by an NYU Langone Medical Center neurosurgeon, found that many key clinical trials in the past were designed with out-of-date assumption and the tendency of some physicians to “lump …
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
Exposure to TV Violence Related to Irregular Brain Structures
According to a recent study published in the journal Brain and Cognition, young adult men who watched more violence on television showed indications of less mature brain development and poorer executive functioning. The researchers used psychological …
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Study Finds Cognitive Performance Can be Improved in Teens Years After TBI
New research published by the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, shows cognitive performance can be improved after an injury to significant degrees for months — and even years— given …
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Assessing Type of TBI in Military Personnel
Explosions are the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. A new study, which recently appeared in JAMA Neurology, shows that military personnel with mild brain trauma related to such blasts …
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Study: How Gliomas Move, Damage Tissue
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered how gliomas migrate in the brain and cause tumors. The findings, recently published online in Nature Communications, show that gliomas disrupt normal neural connections and hijack …
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Monday, June 30, 2014
The Brain’s Balancing Act: Exciting and Inhibiting Neurons
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered how neurons equalize between excitation and inhibition. Specifically, the scientists have shown that there is a constant ratio (E/I ratio) between the total amount …
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Highly Sensitive or Empathetic? It Could be in Your Genes
In a recent study published in Brain and Behavior, researchers found that the human brain provides physical evidence that the “highly sensitive” brain responds powerfully to emotional images. Previous research suggests that sensory processing sensitivity …
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Study Examines How Brain Reboots After Anesthesia
A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides important clues about the processes used by structurally normal brains to navigate from unconsciousness, back to consciousness, after surgical anesthesia …
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