Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
... common colds. Ataxic dysarthria,for example, is a neurological condition that causes a person to soundintoxicated. With more than a year's worth of work behind her and at least thatmuch to go, Cummings hopes to soon isolate a distinct set of parametersthat define intoxicated speech with a least 90 percent accur...Premature Birth Sometimes Can Adversely Affect Infant's Ties To Mother
...spital and had survived without seriousphysical or neurological complications. Most troubling, Mangelsdorf said, was a decline in the rates of secure parent-infantrelationships in the first two years. "At 19 months, 75 percent ofnormal full-term babies were rated as secure, but attachment security forvery low bi......areas--including fullrecovery and mortality rates, neurological and cognitive function--betweenpatients with stroke who were given citicoline, and those who were given aplacebo. "However, the drug did appear to produce an improvement over placebo ina subset of patients with moderate to severe strokes," said Clar...New Stroke Treatment Likely To Decrease Health Care Costs And Increase Quality Of Life
... and conducts a broad program of basic andclinical neurological investigations and is part of the National Institutes ofHealth, located in Bethesda, MD. (1) Fagan, S.C.; Morgenstern, L.B.; Petitta, A.; Ward, R.E.; Tilley, B.C.;Marler, J.R.; Levine, S.R.; Broderick, J.P.; Kwiatkowski, T.G.; Frankel, M.;Brott, T.G...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...ective treatment -- before they saw anyevidence of neurological toxicity. The new radioactive antibody therapy will become an important element ofa multi-treatment strategy for bringing to bay the aggressive cancer, whichstrikes some 12,000 adults a year, said Professor of Neuro-oncology HenryFriedman. "G...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...rmacologist. Also neglected are the severe neurological problems in "cigarettebabies" of smoking pregnant women. This neglect comes despite the fact that the widespread, chronicingestion of nicotine by one-fourth of all pregnant women probably produces farmore damage than the more limited and epis...States Must Be Held Accountable For New Health Plans For Children
...other developmental delays resulting fromuntreated neurological problems can inhibit normal development and socialinteractions. Uninsured and underinsured children presently receive a patchwork of care from"safety-net" providers at hospitals, clinics, public health departments,community and school-based health ce...Safe And Effective Treatment For Acute Repetitive Seizures
...ectrical activity in the brain. Epilepsy, a common neurological disorder marked by repeated seizures, affectsmore than 2 million Americans. Benzodiazepines, a class of drugs that includesdiazepam and lorazepam, are generally agreed to be the treatment of choice foracute repetitive seizures. "This new method of ...Extreme Prematurity Brings Two-Fold Increase In Risk Of Repeating A Grade, Needing Special Education
...luation. After excluding children with major neurological impairments, such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation, blindness and/or deafness, the children born extremely premature were found to be at more than two times the risk of repeating a grade than the full-term children. Buck noted, however, that i...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...omising results, this is thefirst study to address neurological deficits from stroke. It is also the first...ncipal investigator for thisstudy and professor of neurological surgery and radiation oncology, Universityof Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Kondziolka develope......g correctly, or, ifit is unbalanced which leads to neurological and psychological illnesses thatare linked to dopamine changes." Dopamine transporters are protein complexes ocated at the presynaptic(forepart) of dopamine nerve terminals which function to deliver messages toreceptors in the brain. A significant ...Study Shows Potential For Quelling AIDS Nerve Pain
...eintensity of pain was significantly lessened, and neurological exams showedimproved sensation." One offshoot of the study is that the researchers have verifiedprecisely which nerves are involved in the injury -- something not done before. With a punch biopsy, a relatively painless technique little-used i...Neurotransmission Machinery Visualized For The First Time
...ne, effectively cuttingthe winch cable and causing neurological symptoms." Advances in knowledge about the protein complex's structure could be ofpotential use in designing new medications for disorders of brain function,suggests Brunger....Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...priate therapies specifically targeted atchildhood neurological disorders. Her editorial introduces five scientific articles on different brain disorders,bound together by new knowledge about how they cause brain injury. Aninternational conference slated for December 8-9 in Washington, D.C. will focuson interve...New Theory May Explain Ritalin Action In Hyperactivity
...ctively? As with any mental disorder, many neurological defects could cause ADHD,the researchers said. However, they said, the new findings suggest that geneticdefects in the dopamine transporter gene might cause some forms of ADHD inhumans....New Study Finds Blacks Face 38 Percent Higher Stroke Risk
...ding cause of death and the leading cause ofsevere neurological disability, Rosamond said. Although the rate of death fromstroke declined 17.3 percent from 1985 to 1995, aging of the U.S. populationcontributed to a 3.2 percent increase in the actual number of stroke deaths. North Carolina, South Carolina ...NIAID Renews Funding For Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...DS-associated opportunistic infections,cancers and neurological disorders. Ongoing MACS research is examining theemergence of drug resistance to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), aswell as the metabolic side effects HAART produces in some individuals. "In the coming years, we are confident that MACS ......n specializations. But if a stroke or some other neurological damage disables one of the networkcomponents on the dominant side, the corresponding left side component rapidlyand spontaneously emerges from its understudy role, and starts to activate to anormally high level during language processing. ...New Three Year Follow-up Data Of Novantrone In Multiple Sclerosis
...en disappear for months or years. Eventually, the neurological function ofpatients who develop secondary progressive MS begins to steadily worsen asflares become more frequent and severe, and recovery is incomplete. There arecurrently no approved treatments in the United States for people with secondaryprogress......ical Centerneurologist and researcher into genetic neurological disorders will providedetails of recent findings related to spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) anddescribe advances in determining the chromosomal location of a newataxia-related gene at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy ofNeurolo...