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...ficulty concentrating. Stimulants commonly used to treat ADHD are soeffective that "researchers haven't really taken the time to investigate howthey work," says Caron. Previous dogma, says Caron, held that the calming action of Ritalin®works through the neurotransmitter dopamine. Specifically, research...Wolf Prize In Medicine Awarded To Kandel, Columbia's Pioneer Of Memory Research
...edominated by behavioral approaches that tended to treat the brain as a blackbox, without any understanding of what took place within it. To overcome the technical obstacles that previously kept the study oflearning beyond the reach of biologists, Professor Kandel and his collaboratorsturned to a s...Vanderbilt University Medical Center Forms Institute For Coffee Studies
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...cells following a stroke couldprovide a new way to treat stroke survivors, according to Sharp. Recent studieshave shown that new neurons are born in the human brain as well, and the hopefor the future is that these cells to be stimulated to improve function evenmore. "Our studies show that the newborn neu...Use Of Protease Inhibitors For HIV Associated With Dramatic Rise In Oral Warts
...ol, the use of powerful new protease inhibitors to treat HIVhas led to a dramatic, unexplained increase in oral warts among patients, a newstudy reveals. Unlike the more treatable mouth and tongue infections, oral warts are difficultto control and highly prone to recur, says Deborah Greenspan, BDS, DSc, ......ty to penetrate the blood-brainbarrier in order to treat HIV that is evolving independently in the centralnervous system." At the very least, the findings suggest that clinical trials shouldevaluate the success of new HIV drug treatments in the blood and the centralnervous system separately, accor......als Inc. inBirmingham, Ala. -- that may be able to treat the flu, or influenza, which killsapproximately 20,000 Americans each year and hospitalizes as many as 200,000,according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga. NASA's cell culture experiments have led to new researc...Multicomponent Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise in Laboratory Tests
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