Sentences with phrase «for other brain disorders»

The bottom line is a low - carb diet like keto diet is now being studied for other brain disorders.

As a disease caused by a mistake on a single gene, Huntington's disease is an ideal model for other brain disorders.

The new study shows a possible solution, and one that could in principle be adapted for other brain disorders, he says.

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That noteworthy advance could have huge implications for those with brain and other CNS disorders one day.

Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, whose lab develops gene therapies for brain disorders, teamed up with Greengard and other colleagues in the new study.

The finding, one of the first to show that brain waves directly influence behaviour, could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

Research into natural chemicals that mimic marijuana's effects in the brain could help to explain — and suggest treatments for — pain, anxiety, eating disorders, phobias and other conditions

Using «freshman physics,» neuroscientists have deployed electric fields to stimulate neurons buried deep in the brains of mice — a method that could one day lead to noninvasive therapies for people with Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders.

But unlike some other experimental treatments for spinal cord injury, deep brain stimulation has already cleared the hurdle of FDA approval for use in movement disorders.

For example, neural excitation is thought to induce form constants, the dynamic patterns I saw when I closed my eyes under the influence of peyote; these are also generated by migraines, epileptic seizures, and other brain disorders.

«There have been a series of discoveries over the last five years showing that proteins that control RNA degradation are very important for brain development and, when they are mutated, you can have spasticity or other movement disorders,» Dr. Colak says.

This new combination of electronics and drugs to intervene in an individual brain circuit might be used to create mouse models of other mood disorders for other studies, Dzirasa said.

Nevertheless, the flood of data stemming from this research has failed so far to yield truly effective therapies for schizophrenia, depression, and other disorders, or a truly persuasive explanation of how brains make minds.

While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit more emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients with mood disorders.

A preclinical study in mice published by Cell Press January 16th in the journal Cell reveals that drugs known as histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACis) can enhance the brain's ability to permanently replace old traumatic memories with new memories, opening promising avenues for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders.

The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.

Researchers grapple with ethical questions as deep brain stimulation implants like this one — approved for Parkinson's disease — are applied to other disorders.

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

A Japanese research group led by Prof Norihiro Sadato, a professor of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), has found that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have decreased activity in an area in the brain critical for understanding if his / her movement was imitated by others.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

If the new mechanism also operates in the human brain and can be potentiated, this could become of clinical importance not only for stroke patients, but also for replacing neurons which have died, thus restoring function in patients with other disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease,» says Olle Lindvall, Senior Professor of Neurology.

«Although we are currently looking at neurodegenerative disease, there is potential for the technology to be expanded to psychiatric diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and many other conditions affecting the brain and nervous system down the road.»

This is now a mainstream treatment for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders; switching on the current calms the spot in the brain that is responsible for the tremors or spasms.

This technology may be developed into a new therapeutic treatment for traumatic brain and spinal - cord injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological disorders.

«This technology may be developed into a new therapeutic treatment for traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological disorders,» Chen said.

Any would - be cure for Alzheimer's disease or other brain disorder faces a daunting obstacle: the blood - brain barrier.

The finding, published in Nature, could pave the way for these so - called intercalated cells in the amygdala, a brain region that processes fear, to become drug targets for treating phobias (such as fear of heights and closed spaces) as well as post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers and others.

These so - called bioreactors, and the mini-brains they foster, should open other new and valuable windows into human brain development, brain disorders and drug testing — and perhaps even produce neurons for treatment of Parkinson's disease and other disorders, the investigators say.

«The movement to the clinical phase of the research is the result of tireless colleagues reaching across disciplines in pursuit of the shared goal of hoping to someday improve the lives of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and possibly other brain disorders, such as schizophrenia,» Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente, Ph.D. said.

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

The goal is to use this new understanding of the brain to develop novel and effective treatments for schizophrenia and other disorders of compromised glutamatergic signaling.

From MIT Tech Review: «A new method for growing human brain cells could unlock the mysteries of dementia, mental illness, and other neurological disorders.»

Learning more about how neurons in the amygdala change during adolescence might lead to new treatments for autism and other brain disorders, according to the researchers.

Such changes in neuronal function are likely to play important roles in all normal physiological processes in the brain and are critical for development of a variety of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, drug dependence and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

For many neurological, neurodegenerative and psychological disorders, the extent to which they are manifest as a consequence of uniquely human brain specializations or have a shared origin with other primates remains a central topic in neuroscience.

«One of the overriding problems in disorders like autism, we think, is that it's a problem of communication between different areas of the brain and neurons communicating with each other in networks,» said Morrow, who is affiliated with the Brown Institute for Brain Scibrain and neurons communicating with each other in networks,» said Morrow, who is affiliated with the Brown Institute for Brain SciBrain Science.

In 2009 Dr. Drevets became the first President and Scientific Director of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, OK, a private research institute founded and supported by The William K. Warren Foundation, to lead a multidisciplinary team in studies aimed at investigating interrelationships between neuroimaging, genetic and other biomarkers, illness course, and treatment outcome in psychiatric disorders.

A directional deep brain stimulation device for the treatment of epilepsy and other brain disorders.

For example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disordFor example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disordfor Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

His current research interests are sleep / wake disorders after acquired brain injury and issues of cultural diversity that impact rehabilitation outcomes with a strong motivation to improve neuropsychological testing and cognitive rehabilitation interventions for Spanish - speakers and other underserved populations.

The technology, demonstrated for the first time in mice, one day may be used to treat pain, depression, epilepsy and other neurological disorders in people by targeting therapies to specific brain circuits.

Ultimately, the end goal is to design BBCIs capable of strengthening and enhancing the brain's own natural healing abilities, which could be a powerful reparative and assistive device for those impacted by stroke, spinal cord injury and other neurological disorders.

Other kinds of treatment for brain disorders, like drugs or cognitive therapy, affect the brain as a whole.

The same brain structures implicated in the urge to take drugs are involved in other biological urges, Paulus added, suggesting that a homeostatic approach could have a broad impact on treatments that seek to control addictions or psychiatric disorders, and will lay the groundwork for new areas of research.

Brain Health Registry is a groundbreaking free, online platform designed to speed the path to cures for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, PTSD, mild cognitive impairment and other brain disorBrain Health Registry is a groundbreaking free, online platform designed to speed the path to cures for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, PTSD, mild cognitive impairment and other brain disorbrain disorders.

Although there is no easy answer, parents - to - be can lower their risk of giving birth to a child with ADHD, autism, or other brain disorder by limiting exposure to environmental toxins both in the home and outside (for instance, rates of autism are found to be higher in those whose mothers lived near freeways during pregnancy), eating a whole foods diet free of common food sensitivities (such as gluten), and testing for and managing any autoimmune reactions.

According to some experts, Alzheimer's and other brain disorders may be caused by the constant burning of glucose for fuel by your brain.

I take a boat load of stuff for a neurodegenerative disorder that has no treatment or cure — its called MSA and is considered a Parkinsons Plus Disease with a short life span of 4 - 8 years from the first time you pass out with no blood pressure due to Disautonomia — I'm not clear re what is or is not an anti oxidant such as Curcumin / N Acetylcysteine / along with spirulina and egcg is kelp and Selenium & how does black cummin seed oil compare to the fish oils as I understand they both have omega 3 — I take both EPA and DHA and in the final anti oxidant category isn't apple cider vinegar one of the best things you can do for yourself among all those listed — I also am a bit confused re amino acids and vitamins vs anti oxidants — it would be nice to have a whole list of the various things as I noted you have some vitamins as anti oxidants so should b12 and Vit D due to all adults being deficient in both also be on the list along with methyl folate and a few other things that aren't popping to the top of my brain right now — thanks for your graphic and insight which will help alot I think — but I would also suggest that some things listed have more benefits than just those listed — oh — where does niacinamide fit in all this?

To hammer the point home, the omega - 3 fatty acids are often used in psychiatric treatment for depression, bipolar disorders, and other disorders of the brain.

Ketogenic diets are special low - carbohydrate diets that have been used to treat epilepsy for almost 100 years and show great promise in the management of a wide variety of other brain disorders.