Sentences with phrase «brains of patients»

«Beta - amyloid dimers found in brains of patients with Alzheimer's.»

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Dr Ilse Pienaar, a neuroscientist at Sussex University, said: «At present, treatments are aimed at the whole brain of patient's with Parkinson's disease.

A recent human study also indicated a genetic association of the αCaMKII gene with bipolar disorder, and decreased expression of αCaMKII has been observed in postmortem brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

Additionally, the autopsied brains of patients have beta - amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.

Brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease clog up too, but with plaques made from a different protein called amyloid beta peptide.

Dr Adrian Owen of the Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge University - but soon to move to the University of Western Ontario in Canada - hit the news in February of this year when his research team showed that there were incontrovertible signs of intelligent activity in the brains of patients in a so - called «permanent vegetative state» (PVS).

The link between depression and the immune system has been shown using positron emission tomography using a tracer for the translocator protein (TSPO) showing increased immune activation in the brains of patients with major depressive disorder compared with control subjects.

«New findings about stem cells in the brain of patients with epilepsy.»

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reports a link between reduced functional activation and reduced cortical thickness in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

Using a different type of MRI imaging, researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

Using an MRI technique that is sensitive to certain byproducts of cell metabolism, including levels of glucose and acidity, University of Iowa researchers discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

The work should help scientists understand precisely what goes wrong in the brains of patients and help them design better therapies, Costa says.

James Ironside, a pathologist at the National CJD Surveillance Unit, discovered that the brains of these patients showed unusual spongiform symptoms.

Beginning in 2009, they used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of patients prior to treatment for depression; they then followed the patients through the course of therapy, generally for four weeks.

«They may not look like a big deal from the outside, but if you listen in to the brain of a patient having one of these seizures, you can hear that the brain is in seizure,» says Josef Parvizi, a Stanford neuroscientist and epilepsy specialist who developed the brain stethoscope with colleague Chris Chafe, a music researcher at Stanford.

All these diseases share a common feature: abnormal buildup of a protein called tau in the brains of patients.

A recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft.

Once the electrodes were placed on the brains of each patient, Shestyuk and her colleagues conducted a series of eight tasks that included visual and auditory stimuli.

In fact, several national guidelines for doctors specifically discourage scanning the brains of patients who complain of headache and migraine.

Accumulations of plaques and tangles in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease were first observed more than a century ago.

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center have identified a previously unrecognized type of pathology in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

In another study, the brain of a patient who appeared to be in a vegetative state responded just like a healthy person's when asked to imagine playing a game of tennis.

Before and after treatment the brains of patients were examined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

German physician Aloysius «Alois» Alzheimer (left) first described the disease that would bear his name after finding altered proteins in the brain of his patient Auguste Deter (right).

All of these diseases are marked by harmful, elongated, rope - like structures known as amyloid fibrils, linked protein molecules that form in the brains of patients.

A few molecules of the protein, they found, can trigger the formation of long protein fibers similar to those in the brains of patients with neurological disorders such as Creutzfeld - Jakob disease.

After just nine weeks of internet - delivered cognitive behavioral therapy, the brain of patients suffering from social anxiety disorder changes in volume.

The UCLA researchers, led by David Eisenberg, director of the UCLA - Department of Energy Institute of Genomics and Proteomics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, report the first application of this technique in the search for molecular compounds that bind to and inhibit the activity of the amyloid - beta protein responsible for forming dangerous plaques in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases.

«Although previous research has shown that some head injury patients have these amyloid plaques shortly after the incident, these findings suggest these plaques are still present in the brains of patients over 10 years later.

Xu and colleagues also observed lower levels of membralin, on average, in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's than in unaffected individuals, demonstrating the relevance of their findings to humans.

Let's say I understand precisely what is going wrong in the brain of a patient.

By the time we get to look at the brain of a patient with Alzheimer's, it's really end - stage disease.

The two main abnormalities of the disease are microscopic lesions called plaques and tangles, which occur in the brains of patients.

Instead, he found that the brains of patients with the syndrome varied from the norm in different ways.

He contends the vitamins neutralize an oxidized compound that causes hallucinations when it accumulates in the brains of patients.

«We need to understand what these antibodies do in the brains of patients better,» he says.

Fried implanted hair - thin wires in the brains of patients at the David Geffen School of Medicine at U.C.L.A..

Such «plaques» are characteristic toxic deposits that accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

If we could peer into the brains of these patients, we'd see two hallmarks of the disease.

We have found that the dimers are preserved during the tissue extraction procedure used in the lab and are consequently identical to those in the brains of patients with AD.

As for adults, Volkow notes a possible upside: Radio waves akin to cell - phone signals might be therapeutically useful for stimulating the brains of patients suffering from ischemia or stroke.

Researchers at Rice's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics used computer models to analyze proteins suspected of misfolding and forming plaques in the brains of patients with neurological diseases.

Scanning the brain of a patient suffering from Parkinson's disease reveals that in spite of dopamine cell death, there are no signs of a lack of dopamine — even at a comparatively late stage in the process.

In the case of Parkinson's disease, it is found that the expression of MAO - B, but not MAO - A, is significantly enhanced in the brain of patients and increases with age.

In a June paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Lund team described the brain of a patient who'd received a unilateral transplant — where only one side of the brain received the treatment — 24 years earlier.

Penn State researchers were the first to discover increased iron levels in the brains of some patients with the late - onset neurodegenerative disorders Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

In the brains of patients with Alzheimer's, amyloid peptides aggregate to form oligomers and plaques that are thought to be responsible for the disease symptoms.