Sentences with phrase «about brain diseases»

«We still know so little about brain diseases that it will take a while before we can confidently develop analytic models of such complex biology,» she says.

Not exact matches

Dr. Stanley Crooke Ionis President discusses why he is optimistic about the deal between Biogen and Ionis to fight brain disease.

The girl, who experienced a stroke and then subsequent brain damage from the disease and now takes a Horizon medicine to stabilize the condition, spoke about how happy she was that country singer Chris Jacobs wrote a song for her.

Of course, I was * probably * stressed about other things, such as packing, college applications, etc. and my silly brain decided to focus on mosquitos and diseases instead.

When I joined internet forums about coeliac disease, I noticed the term «brain fog» floating around, and saw that I was far from the only one experiencing these symptoms.

I worry that lost amidst the hoopla about the new CTE study is the fact that not every football player whose brain was donated to the CTE Center for pathological scrutiny was found to have the disease, and, that it was not detected in either the brains donated by the families of football players who died before they got to high school, and in only three of fourteen of high school players (and, in those, the disease had not progressed beyond the «mild» stage).

Research suggests that about a third of kids are lucky enough to escape trauma, but about a quarter suffer such high doses that it affects brain development, immune and endocrine functioning, and can create mental and physical disease systems that reduce the lifespan by an average of 20 years.

«a disease process in the brain, involving the cortical neurones, brought about by an autointoxication... as a result of a disorder of metabolism.»

Instead, the new version limits its use to about 20 serious conditions, including cancer, traumatic brain injury, AIDS, Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis and post - traumatic stress disorder.

These current studies represent a leap forward in the knowledge base about HS - AGING, and represent potential new paths to explore for diagnosis and treatment of this serious, but under - appreciated brain disease.

[June 23, 2012] As scientists continue to make advances in neuroscience, they are learning more about how the aging brain functions in health and disease.

«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.

HARD KNOCKS By studying the brains of former football players, researchers are finding clues about how a neurodegenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, progresses, with the hopes of one day preventing it.

Advances in neuroscience have enabled researchers to learn more about how the adolescent brain functions, from the everyday behavior of teenagers to how they cope with the challenges of disease, learning problems, and social cues.

In the meantime, those with AB blood need not panic about their future cognitive wherewithal, she says, noting that all our brains are apt to benefit from a healthy diet, awareness of our risk factors for heart disease and stroke, and regular exercise for the body and brain.

«The fact that a [cell] culture expresses most genes present in the brain says nothing about its appropriateness as a disease model,» says Knoblich.

Svendsen is more optimistic about his team's work involving human tests of a novel stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease in which cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles wither or die.

Stanford University researchers studying how the brain controls movement in people with paralysis, related to their diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease, have found that groups of neurons work together, firing in complex rhythms to signal muscles about when and where to move.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

Understanding more about the process could help prevent the onset of degenerative brain diseases.

But recent technological advances and a series of remarkable discoveries in the past two years have provided key clues about how Alzheimer's disease ravages the brain.

The scientists transferred the twins» gut bacteria to mice predisposed to develop a disease that mimics MS. Twelve weeks after the transplant, about 40 percent more mice with gut microbes from a twin with MS developed brain inflammation compared with mice that got gut microbes from a twin without disease.

A new discovery about the immune system may allow doctors to treat harmful inflammation that damages the brain in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

After taking a close look at autopsiedhuman brains, scientists at the Buck Institute in Novato, California, foundthat those with Alzheimer's disease had about ten times as much cleavage inthe brain, a process that Dale Bredesen, Buck Institute founder andleader of the research group describes as «molecular scissors» cutting out the amyloid - beta protein.

«One of the things we know about Alzheimer's disease is that this region of the brain is one of the very first to exhibit a key hallmark of the disease, deposition of neurofibrillary tangles.»

«If you look at the «normal» brains that come into the bank, about 15 per cent actually aren't normal — they've got early stages of a neurodegenerative disease.»

Alzheimer's disease can be diagnosed at a glance from brain shrinkage of about 10 percent.

It may also bring about advances in diagnosing diseases like Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis, both of which involve abnormal iron accumulation in the brain.

The unexpected presence of the lymphatic vessels raises a tremendous number of questions that now need answers, both about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it.

Muotri noted that the research represents one of the first efforts to use iPSCs and brain in - a-dish technology to generate novel insights about a disease process and not simply replicate data from other models.

«With this study, we have gained new knowledge about the disease processes in the brain in the early initial stages of the disease development.

For example, how genetic programs affect the function of specific cell types, how they vary early or later in life and how dysfunction in these programs might contribute to disease, all of which could help scientists learn more about the fundamental workings of the brain.

«This research provides new insight about the potentially harmful effects of a lack of sleep on the brain and has implications for better characterizing the pathology of Alzheimer's disease,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study.

Parkinson's disease is caused by loss of the brain signaling chemical dopamine and affects about 1 million people in the United States.

Extracts from the brains of FFI patients transmitted disease to transgenic mice expressing a chimeric human - mouse PrP gene about 200 days after inoculation and induced formation of the 19 - kilodalton PrPSc fragment, whereas extracts from the brains of familial and sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease patients produced the 21 - kilodalton PrPSc fragment in these mice.

Researchers have long known that in about half of FTD cases, brains are speckled with protein clumps containing tau, a protein implicated in Alzheimer's and other brain diseases.

A surprise discovery that overturns decades of thinking about how the body fixes proteins that come unraveled greatly expands opportunities for therapies to prevent diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, which have been linked to the accumulation of improperly folded proteins in the brain.

Our investigations also open a new route for understanding how different physiological states of the body influence stem cells in the brain during health and disease, and opens new ways for thinking about therapy,» says Fiona Doetsch.

A new study casts doubts on a long - held theory about what goes awry in the brains of patients with Huntington's disease.

«A lot of work that initiated this project stemmed from what we learned about how these pathways work in normal brain development, and as we learn more about how it normally works we think it'll provide us with novel insight about how to target it in disease.»

He and his team hope to learn more about the impact of exercise on brain function and whether it could delay the onset or progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Our research suggests that we may also need to think about targeting the brain to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.»

He thought about a previous patient, a battered woman whose autopsy had shown signs of brain disease.

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University, have made important discoveries about a cellular process that occurs during normal brain development and may play an important role in neurodegenerative diseases.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) provide molecular details about Seckel Syndrome, a rare disease that causes microcephaly, or small brain, and growth delays.

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In the lab, protein amyloids, like those that clog up the brains of people who died from Alzheimer's disease, are impervious to just about anything, including extreme heat and cold and powerful detergents.

What we are learning from these studies adds important knowledge about the human brain in both health and disease.

In the PNAS paper, Varvel and his colleagues include a cautionary note about using these mice for studying situations of more prolonged brain inflammation, such as neurodegenerative diseases: the monocytes may turn down production of the red protein over time, so it's hard to tell if they're still in the brain after several days.

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