Study: Birth Defects Decrease Survival, Childbirth, Boost Risk Of Similar Defects
...cephaly, hydrocephalus, other syndromes andcentral nervous system irregularities and highest for cleft palate and lip,clubfoot and malformations of skin, hair, nails and genitals. Women with birth defects also are generally less likely to have childrenthan others but face an increased risk of bearin......ifferences in the effect ofnicotine on the central nervous system, possibly because of differentinteractions with hormones, according to the researchers. "The commonly heldbelief before this study was that women smoked more for emotional reasons, butthis does not appear to be the case in the real-life settin...Newest Depression Medications Widely Prescribed For Children
..."drugs, including SSRIs, on the developing central nervous system are unknown.But SSRIs have a variety of documented side effects in adolescents and childrenincluding sleep disturbances and behavioral changes. Moreover, no clear age anddosage guidelines exist for these medications and prescription practices ...Biochemical Marker Targets Brain Injury Leading To Movement Problems After Stroke
...teractive view of both site and functionwithin the nervous system," says lead researcher Sarah T. Pendlebury, MRCP, atthe Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance of the Brain, John RadcliffeHospital, Oxford, United Kingdom. George Hademenos, Ph.D., staff scientist with the American Heart Association,notes t......th care, cardiovascular disease therapies, central nervous systemdrugs, anti-inflammatory agents, vaccines and generic pharmaceuticals. American Home Products owns a majority interest in Immunex. AHP is oneof the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical and health care productscompanies. It is...Ordinary Touches Multiply Into Severe Pain For Fibromyalgia Patients
...osis. UF scientists have found an abnormal central nervous system reaction inthose with fibromyalgia: The bod...chers have theorized that an injury to the central nervous system oran infectious agent might be responsible for triggering it in people whohave inherited susc...Two Beta-Blocker Drugs Equal In Treating Heart Failure
... Beta-blocker drugs work on the body's sympathetic nervous system, which pourshormones like adrenaline into the bloodstream in response to stress. Inresponse to high levels of these hormones, the heart beats faster and has towork harder. CHF patients have high levels of these stress-related hormones, asor...New Technique Induces Growth Across Spinal Cord Injury
...e adds. "The problem was notthat the adult central nervous system is hostile territory for growth, aspreviously thought. The problem is getting the injured cells to grow. Now weneed to identify the molecular signals that induce this growth and the genes onwhich they act. If we can find ways to turn those ......en is interested in the development and decline of nervous systemfunction across the life span. After age 70,...space shuttle, Vercruyssen says."Thedemands on the nervous system are similar." Clark and Arakaki receive stipends from UH's Space Grant Fellowship Program toi...NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...d as thefundamental paradigm for understanding the nervous system. Contemporaryneurobiologists, for example, still parcel the brain into 'sensory' and 'motor'areas but overlook the possibility that much of the brain must be devoted tosubjective evaluation and decision-making. Over the last 5 years our labor...Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
...le whoalready have sustained damage to the central nervous system is a great frontierin clinical neurology and neurosurgery."...Jefferson scientist begins clinical trial to study promising Parkinson's disease drug
...of a therapy that can help restore the part of the nervous systemdamaged by a neurodegenerative disease," Dr. Schneider says. Fidia SpA of Abano Terme, Italy, which manufactures GM1 gangliosideunder the name SygenR, will supply the drug for the study. "Current therapies for Parkinson's disea...Symposium on treating drug addiction -- Tip sheet
...e moleculesfrom reaching their target, the central nervous system. Over a period ofseveral weeks, the animals' bodies built up a sufficient number of antibodies tocreate an effective vaccine. In addition, a laboratory cloning technique hasbeen used to create antibodies that, when injected in large quanti...Marriage rates differ only slightly in childhood cancer survivors
... Hispanic), those with central nervous system (CNS) tumors, and the total in each age group. The study found that females and whites were lesslikely to have married than their counterparts in the general ...Nortran Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Hoechst Marion Roussel announce collaborativeagreement
...ading therapies for allergic, metabolicand central nervous system disorders and as well as cardiovascular andinfectious diseases. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Hoechst Marion Roussel is thepharmaceutical company of Hoechst AG, an international company that focuses onlife sciences. Nortran Pharmaceuticals is...Selective and nonselective beta-blockers equally effective in preventing sudden death
...he drug blocks the toxic effects of thesympathetic nervous system on the heart. Both the selective and nonselectivebeta-blockers used in this study appeared to alter ventricular function of theheart. The other researchers involved in this study were UT Southwesternmedical resident Dr. Susan Fesmire; ...UCSF finding could lead to a new class of painkillers
... signals out of the cell body and into the central nervous system, where pain is felt. Current inflammatory-pain drugs -- the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS, including the new COX-2 inhibitors -- act by blocking the production of some of these chemical signals, or inflammatory "mediators." ...High brain centres teach lower brain to adapt to injury
...ng changes commonly observed at lower levelsof the nervous system. "While it has been obvious to scientists for some time that sensory informationmust flow up each level of the brain, it has always been a puzzle why there issuch heavy feedback from higher levels back down to the lower areas of thebrain," say......f certain genes that govern the development of the nervous system. (An accompanying article in the same issue...ession could lead to severe damage tothe brain and nervous system.) The discovery also sheds light on why only females are affected by thesyndrome: bec...