Sentences with phrase «treat brain diseases»

Not only can it lead to new methods to detect and treat the brain diseases that amyloid causes, amyloid may also be used as a building block for future nanomaterials.

They included China's ambitious 15 - year plan aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive functions while developing the tools to diagnose and treat brain diseases early; it is likely to be funded with $ 1 billion over the first 10 years.

Knowing what the master genes are could give scientists targets for new pharmaceuticals to treat brain diseases.

«While it is very well accepted that improving cardiovascular health can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attacks, we now believe that drugs aimed at improving cerebrovascular health may be an additional strategy to treating brain diseases in the future.»

Finding better ways of preventing and treating brain diseases is therefore becoming urgent.

Now, new work suggests that a drug already approved by the FDA to treat another brain disease — multiple sclerosis — may stave off these problems in HD mice.

I realized that the fundamental problem is that we simply do not know enough about how the brain works, and that this is essential for finding efficient methods to treat brain disease.

He said that while it is already well accepted that improving cardiovascular health can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attacks, «we now believe that drugs aimed at improving cerebrovascular health may be an additional strategy to treating brain diseases in the future».

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This type of automated, long - term delivery system could make it easier to treat everything from brain diseases to diabetes.

A company that wants to regenerate the heart and brain could change the way we treat people who have had a heart attack or Parkinson's disease.

After many setbacks, researchers have been trying different approaches to treating the neurodegenerative disease, such as starting treatment earlier and finding new ways to target the brain.

Salk Institute scientists say they have developed a superior way of cultivating human brain tissue, guiding research for treating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.

The disease can lead to brain swelling, liver damage, and even death if not treated carefully.

Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat dozens of diseases and are being tested in FDA - regulated clinical trials to help people with autism, brain injury, and other conditions.

«I don't know for sure, but I've heard several senators say that Ted Kennedy with a brain tumour, being 77 years old as opposed to being 37 years old, if he were in England, would not be treated for his disease, because end of life - when you get to be 77, your life is considered less valuable under those systems,» he said.

Gene therapy delivered to a specific part of the brain reverses symptoms of depression in a mouse model of the disease — potentially laying the groundwork for a new approach to treating severe cases of human depression in which drugs are ineffective.

Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated by implanting DBS electrodes.

Experts say these findings provide a new window into the way the brain operates and why certain enigmatic disorders such as autism and Alzheimer's disease may develop, potentially paving the way for new therapies to treat them.

«That's important, because elucidating brain plasticity during learning could lead to new avenues for treating learning and movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease.»

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.

Twenty - seven participants with tremor - dominant Parkinson's disease were enrolled in the study; the research team randomly assigned 20 to be treated with focused ultrasound waves on their brains, while the others received a fake procedure, to account for any potential placebo effect.

Lyme disease / Irritability and depression - Affects all ages, may infect membranes surrounding the brain, can be treated with antibiotics

We may be on the verge of understanding, treating or even preventing life - crushing brain - based diseases — including one that affects an estimated 23 million Americans: drug and alcohol addiction.

Pezaris has also enlisted the help of Emad Eskandar, a neurosurgeon at MGH who specializes in deep - brain stimulation, which has been used to treat Parkinson's disease and monitor neural activity in people suffering from seizures.

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.

Systems biologists, physicists, and engineers have intensively worked at computational tools to analyze, predict, and optimize the effects of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to treat chronic neurological diseases.

We have mouse models for many of these diseases, says Zeng, so we can treat the brains of affected animals with the same dye - and - dice approach.

Other companies, including Pfizer, based in New York, have invested in nicotinic - receptor modulators to treat Alzheimer's disease and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (see Aiming at the brain's nicotine receptors).

The method could treat many brain diseases.

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.

Research into how the brain processes time, sound and movement has implications for understanding how humans listen to music and speech, as well as for treating diseases like Parkinson's.

The concept of tailoring drugs to regulate and treat abnormal brain blood vessels is a novel treatment strategy and offers great potential to complement existing treatments of this debilitating disease.»

Researchers are far from a complete understanding of what causes schizophrenia and how it affects the brain, and some psychiatrists contend that treating a patient for a disease not yet manifest is a clear violation of a basic tenet of medicine: to do no harm.

The fact that IGF - 2 is naturally occurring and can cross the blood - brain barrier makes it a promising candidate for treating memory - impairing diseases or even forgetfulness, Alberini notes.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

«Someday AAV9 may help us treat spinal cord injury as well as diseases of the spinal cord and brain by carting genes right to the place they're needed,» Kaspar says.

Stimulating neurons deep within the brain can help treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease and obsessivecompulsive disorder, but right now patients must undergo invasive electrode implants.

The guidelines provide parameters regarding when clinicians should consider the possibility of ventriculitis (inflammation of the ventricles in the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain or spinal cord) in patients who have cerebrospinal fluid shunts and drains (devices placed in the brain to relieve pressure due to fluid buildup), intrathecal drug pumps (for administration of pain medicine or other drugs into the spinal canal), deep brain stimulation hardware (medical devices that provide electrostimulation in the brain to treat Parkinson's disease or other neurological symptoms) or who have undergone neurosurgery or suffered from head trauma.

Besides, the potential for healing is too great to ignore — starting with a better implant for those who suffer from Parkinson's, a neurodegenerative disease already treated with electrodes in the brain.

And as Deisseroth and his colleagues illuminate more neural pathways, other researchers will be able to design increasingly targeted drugs and minimally invasive brain implants to treat psychiatric disease.

The blood - brain barrier is an effective barrier which protects the brain, but which at the same time makes it difficult to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Called craniotomy, this skull - cutting technique is still used today during brain surgery to treat neurological diseases, injuries, tumors, and blood clots.

However, this security system is so effective at protecting the brain that it prevents many life - saving drugs — all but some small molecules — from being able to treat cancer and other diseases of the brain.

The technique used is called deep brain stimulation, and is already used to treat the tremors and movement problems of some people with severe Parkinson's disease.

Two thin wires implanted in the brain may help treat Alzheimer's disease by delivering electrical current.

Two recent studies reveal that proteins produced naturally in the brain could lead to new ways to treat Alzheimer's disease.

An advantage of small - molecule PPF — which has been previously used in clinical trials in an attempt to treat Alzheimer's disease and dementia — is that it can penetrate the blood - brain barrier and reach the tumor.

A Michigan State University researcher is challenging a widely held African belief that a spinal tap, a procedure safely used to treat other diseases, could suck the brain from the base of the skull and cause death in malaria patients.

An FDA approved drug to treat renal cell carcinoma appears to reduce levels of a toxic brain protein linked to dementia in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases when given to animals.

Neurosurgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix are involved with testing the viability of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat Alzheimer's disease, a disorder that currently has few treatment options.