A new discovery by scientists at the MNI may provide insights into Multiple Sclerosis
...ing diseases such as MS, where even a small myelin deficit can lead to functional impairment of the nerve cell. An estimated 50,000 people have MS, which is most often diagnosed in young adults. Its devastating effects last a lifetime and may include problems in seeing or speaking, difficulty with balance ...Early diagnosis of Usher syndrome type 1 made possible by new findings
...e the indicators of Usher syndrome, a genetic dual deficit disorder. There are three clinical subtypes of Usher syndrome, the most severe of which is Usher type 1 (USH1). This syndrome involves deafness at birth, progressive blindness and balance problems. In 1861, a physician working in Berlin described ...'Europeans and biotechnology' survey of public perception
...% respectively. In 1999 industry had a confidence deficit of minus 10%, but by 2002 this has shifted into a surplus of 23%. The acceptability of uses of genetic information The results on the acceptability of various uses of genetic data confirm that this is controversial issue where public concerns need ...Experimental Biology 2003 meets in San Diego April 11-15
...ccurs in response to an excess of free radicals or deficit of antioxidants (the reason many people take antioxidant vitamins). Nitrosative stress refers to the negative effects of the body's high reactivity to nitric oxide. Other examples of APS presentations include transgenic models of heart failure ther...Rutgers researcher advances understanding of attention deficit disorder and schizophrenia
...oaches to cognitive malfunctions such as attention deficit disorder (ADD) and schizophrenia. With support from a $500,000 McDonnell Foundation grant, Hanson is examining the dynamics of how different areas of the brain function cooperatively by monitoring the brain with both an electroencephalograph, also k...Pavlov's flies: Researchers identify fruit fly memory mutants
...ey may be important for understanding human memory deficit disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Moreover, the genes are potential targets for the development of therapies to treat such disorders. The study (available on request) appears in the February 18 issue of Current Biology (illustrations also availa...How postnatal experience influences brain development and brain function
...izophrenia, Greenough said, "there appears to be a deficit or decline in dorsolateral prefrontal cortical synaptic connectivity combined with morphological abnormalities, suggesting abnormal plasticity at the level of individual synapses." Greenough's findings don't run counter to the long-held view of what ...Neglect during infancy can affect children for years, scientists report
...l together stuff like what we know about attention deficit disorder, bereavement, etc., and it doesn't fit ex... but are not impulsive, as children with attention deficit disorder typically are. The adopted children also showed some unusual clumsiness and difficulty play...New Northwestern center targets brain disorders
... "The glyxins also may have an impact on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, memory loss associated with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease as well as normal aging, damage due to stroke, and neuropathic pain," said Moskal. He has collaborated for years with John Disterhoft, professor of physiology...A new animal study clarifies how different parts of the brain regulate sleep
...lity of the frontal cortex of the brain to a sleep deficit and its higher need for recovery during sleep. The left predominance at the parietal cortex may be due to a preferential unilateral sensori-motor activation during spontaneous waking. It is known that there is a higher occurrence of right "handedness...Mouse gene knockout illuminates how light resets clock
...nals from the retina to the clock. To confirm this deficit in light input, the knockout mice were exposed to constant white light, which normally would trigger phase adjustments resulting in a longer internal clock day than in constant darkness. The melanopsin-deprived mice showed a shorter lengthening of t...USF study: Nicotine antagonist relieves depression in children with Tourette's
...he mood disorders were major depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiance disorder, obssessive compulsive disorder, and hypomania. Of the 50 participants, 38 completed the full 8-week trial -- 17 on mecamylamine and 21 receiving a placebo pill. The four Tourette's pati...Moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy is risky too
...her brain regions. Evidence suggests that the LTP deficit observed in rodent offspring prenatally exposed to...d by the hippocampus, and links them to a specific deficit in plasticity of neurotransmitter release." Savage noted several additional points to consider when ...UT Southwestern scientists discover link between infections in mothers and brain injuries in babies
...most common causes of severe, long-term neurologic deficit in infants and children. Each year, one in 1,000 babies is born with brain injury in the United States - about 4,000 annually. The UT Southwestern researchers studied 61 full-term infants who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit at Park...A genetic basis for aggression and anger
...ocial memory are not simply the result of a global deficit in sensorimotor function or motivation. Fos-mapping within chemosensory responsive regions suggests that the behavioral deficits in V1bR knockout mice are not due to defects in detection and transmission of chemosensory signals to the brain. The auth...Is there a link between soy formula and attention deficit disorder?
...-- Does soy-based infant formula lead to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? There's much speculation -- but little science -- on this association. Shedding some light on this problem, a UC Irvine-led study discovered that a mineral found in high levels in soy milk appears to be linked to behavi...Prenatal alcohol exposure can damage both information processing and response capabilities
...wise, it could be argued that the processing speed deficit was merely another manifestation of the children's poorer IQ. Instead, what is shown here is that even when you control for IQ, the children who are heavily exposed process information and react more slowly." These deficits, she added, likely refle...Rockefeller researchers provide the first functional evidence for mammalian pheromone receptors
...ate these nerve cells, indicating that the sensory deficit is specific. The authors coined a new term for this selective chemosensory deficit: a specific avnosmia, analogous to specific anosmias to certain 'common' odorants reported in many cases over the past decades, both in mouse and human. "The specific ...New drug that enhances glutamate transmission in the brain being evaluated for fragile X
...ning disabilities to mental retardation, attention deficit and hyperactivity, anxiety and unstable mood, autistic-like behaviors, long face, large ears, flat feet, and hyperextensible joints, especially fingers. "Once you have a patient with fragile X syndrome, that's a big red flag because that means the m......aneously Hypertensive rats. Since SHRs exhibited a deficit in spatial reference memory, this suggests that D1 receptor density may be positively linked to spatial reference memory. This further supports the assertion that administering linoleic acid to SHRs did not only result in improvement of spatial refer...