Medications aren't affecting brain size in children with ADHD
...yperactivity disorder (ADHD) have slightly smaller brains than children without the disorder, medications us... study confirms previous findings showing that the brains of children with ADHD tend to be smaller than the brains of children without the disorder, and it re...Gene therapy success in the laboratory buoys hope for Parkinson's disease
...r. Luo made Parkinson's lesions on one side of the brains of rats that had the gene therapy. The researchers then performed various behavioral tests to see if the gene therapy could protect against the development of classic Parkinson's symptoms. One test showed that nearly 70 percent of the animals with Pa...OHSU takes part in unique Alzheimers treatment trial
...easure the amount of beta-amyloid in participants' brains through spinal taps. "If the drug is successful, we expect to see a rise in amyloid levels in the spinal fluid," said Jeffrey Kaye, M.D., an investigator and director of the C. Rex and Ruth H. Layton Alzheimer's Research Center at OHSU. "This incre...UNC forms Conte Center for multidisciplinary schizophrenia research
... researchers will track the development of healthy brains from infancy to early adulthood and use state-of-the-art neuroimaging to examine brain function in high-risk adolescents and young adults. The Center also aims to develop a model for genetic and cellular influences of the GABAergic interneurons, whic...Mild injury may render brain cells vulnerable to immune system attack
...res," said McNamara. The scientists found that the brains of children suffering from the disease showed evid...r finding raises the possibility of protecting the brains of patients with neurodegenerative disease. "The identification of a small-molecule inhibitor of the...Rutgers wins funds to create online index of moving brain images
... disorders, doctors can take pictures of patients' brains using a highly sophisticated instrument called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The technique produces millions of bytes of data that are transformed into moving images, allowing doctors to see how brain signals move across the br...Brain study of back pain sufferers yields intriguing results
... called functional MRI or fMRI. They looked at the brains of 15 people with lower back pain whose body scans...nts report they feel, and what's going on in their brains at the precise moment they feel it. And, it continues to give researchers a road map of the areas of...Long-term ERT in postmenopausal women with Alzheimer's may worsen memory
...action of two conditions known to exist within the brains of female Alzheimer's patients, 1) the presence of chronic neuroinflammation, and 2) having too much or not enough estrogen. Both of these conditions are likely to precede the onset of symptoms associated with Alzheimer's. As part of the experiment, ...University of Pittsburgh researchers link gene to depressive disorders in women
...ions in CREB1 expression have been reported in the brains of patients who died with major depression, those ... major depression and related disorders and in the brains of animals treated with antidepressant drugs. CREB has also been implicated in neuronal plasticity, ...Why are people who recover from major depression never really out of the woods?
...ife (for example, the death of a loved one), their brains were scanned using positron emission tomography (PET), which consists of computerized multi-colored images showing where maximum activity (blood flow) is occurring. As first reported in May 1999, also in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Mayberg, L...Seeing into the Alzheimers brain
...what kinds of chemicals are lost or changed in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, then we can design drugs to return the brain chemistry to normal," he explains....Jefferson scientists find evidence of greater sensitivity to addictive drugs in adolescence
...had shown increased amounts of Delta FosB in adult brains following chronic exposure to psychostimulants. The team, which includes scientists at the Nathan Kline Institute in Orangeburg, New York, reports its findings November 1 in the Journal of Neuroscience. "Periadolescence and adolescence are when addic...Brain differences in sheep linked to sexual partner preference
...h females, and ten ewes. When researchers compared brains among the three groups, they recorded marked differences. Research was focused on the preoptic hypothalamus, a region of the brain known to be involved in sexual behaviors and partner preferences; researchers identified a group of neurons there call...Brains of elderly can compensate to remain sharp, study indicates
...as to a group of young adults aged 20-35, as their brains were being scanned using positron-emission tomography (PET). PET scans display brain activity by measuring the radioactivity in brain tissues from small amounts of injected glucose tagged with a tracer. Since glucose is the energy source for brain c...UIC research suggests new way to stop growth of cancer cells
..., an enzyme that produces a harmful protein in the brains of people with Alzheimer's. Miele's study shows that inhibiting gamma secretase also can block intercellular communications in cancer cells. Cancer occurs when several genes within a cell are damaged. Earlier research has found that a type of gene c...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November (second issue)
...s have shown that the volume of gray matter in the brains of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was...tors analyzed three-dimensional images done on the brains of 21 patients with OSA and 21 healthy control subjects. They reported that OSA patient gray matter...Rush begins use of magnetic guided navigation system
... a clinical trial to access clogged vessels in the brains of newly diagnosed stroke patients. They also plan clinical research protocols to treat brain aneurysms and tumors. "Our clinical research should lead to new ways to treat brain aneurysms by directing a catheter into the aneurysm, holding it in pla...Symphony of memory formation revealed
...erm memories. The UCLA study used fMRI to scan the brains of volunteers as they viewed information using goggles with a TV display. Researchers first introduced pairs of names and faces in sequence and instructed volunteers to learn which face corresponded to which name. In order to distract the subject to ...Brief exposure to Mandarin can help American infants learn Chinese
...ign language speakers. You could see their little brains absorbing the information. "These new studies show the importance of timing at 9 months infants are in a sensitive period for language learning. They also show the importance of social interaction in learning language. In addition, the studies sugg...Rutgers researcher: Brains in dyslexic children can be 'rewired' to improve reading skills
... scientific first, researchers have shown that the brains of dyslexic children can be "rewired" through inte...if two letters of the alphabet rhymed, while their brains were imaged with fMRI scans. The scans of the 20 dyslexic children in the experiment who struggled ...