Mid-life heart disease risk factors linked to dementia in late-life
...Yaffe, MD, UCSF associate professor of psychiatry, neurology and epidemiology, and chief of geriatric psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Yaffe was senior researcher of the study. Most previous studies showing the relation between cardiovascular risk factors and dementia have focused only on eld...Mayo researchers invent targeted imaging probe to aid early Alzheimer's diagnosis
...ave been waiting on for decades," says Mayo Clinic neurology researcher and principal investigator, Joseph Poduslo, Ph.D. "A simple MRI evaluation for Alzheimer's disease would ease the suffering of so many families, and hopefully, vastly improve patient-care options." Significance of the Mayo Clinic Resea...American Academy of Neurology guidelines for treating of epilepsy
...cians," said Jacqueline French, M.D., professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the authors of the guidelines. "The 'older' drugs for epilepsy are literally some of the oldest drugs we have--for example, phenobarbital has been used for nearly 100 years to prevent seizures." "The guide...New findings on stroke prevention surgery should change medical practice
...vention," says Charles Tegeler, M.D., professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist. "First, we need to screen more adults for narrowed carotid arteries. Second, patients with severe carotid narrowing should at least be considered for the surgery as a stroke-prevention treatment." Toole recommends that men un...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 56th Annual Meeting
...hair of the AAN Science Committee and professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Highlights included: Stroke Mexican-Americans have significantly higher rates of stroke than non-Hispanic whites, according to research by a group from the University of Texas at Houston. The disparity occurs ...Full moon exerts no pull on frequency of epileptic seizures
...," said Selim Benbadis, MD, associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the USF College of Medicine. "In fact, we found the number of epileptic seizures was lowest during the full moon and highest in the moon's last quarter." The study, to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Epilepsy & Be...Parkinson's caregivers at risk for deteriorating health
...Carter, R.N., M.S., A.N.P., associate professor of neurology in the OHSU School of Medicine and associate director of the Parkinson Center of Oregon. The findings suggest the health of family caregivers is paramount to the well-being of Parkinson's disease patients. And they may help researchers identify poten...Optimal time to treat migraine pain with Relpax; is early in the attack, new study finds
... Brandes, clinical instructor in the department of neurology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a neurologist at the Nashville Neuroscience Group. "This study provides new evidence that migraine sufferers should treat at the first signs of an attack, and clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of ...Study: Dementia often undiagnosed in clinical settings
...dy co-author Jeffrey Kaye, M.D., OHSU professor of neurology and the Layton Center's director, the results show "our hard-working primary care physicians need help. They need time to adequately address cognitive problems. And they need a reimbursement system that recognizes the value of their time taken in det...Testosterone may help in recovery from strokes, suggests preliminary findings in study
..." said Yi Pan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and p...id Aninda B. Acharya, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and a researcher on the project. "We are trying to f...MRI shows brain changes underlying language deficits in autism
...Foundas, MD, an expert in cognitive and behavioral neurology of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. "Perhaps, this lack of response is not that these treatments do not work, but rather that these treatments only work in a specific biological subgroup." Harris and his colleagues had previously used MRI...National Institute on Aging Neuroimaging Initiative for Alzheimer's disease
...d professor of medicine, radiology, psychiatry and neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. "But every lab is doing something a bit different. Some people are using PET (positron emission tomography) and some varying types of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). What are the best methods; what wo...A controlled study of peripheral neuropathy after bariatric surgery
...s possible," said Dr. Dyck, associate professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. "We found that people were at risk for neurological complications (peripheral neuropathy or PN) following bariatric surgery. Nutritional support before and after surgery seems to a key factor...Researcher says screenings vital to reduce stroke rate
...edical Journal in September, Toole, a professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist, said that screening is the best way to identify vessel disease that is pre-clinical, or before symptoms develop. Toole says that effective ways to prevent stroke make the screenings especially important. These include d...Widely used breast cancer drug not linked to stroke
.... Glenn M. Fischberg, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at the Keck School, examined patients' clinical medical records and brain scans to ensure patients had truly suffered strokes. For their analysis, researchers matched each of the 179 women to two other stroke-free women who had been diagnosed w...Advances in understanding brain circuits responsible for tics in Tourette's shed light on disorder
...eagues at the University of Michigan department of neurology investigated the idea that the ventral striatum--a brain region where both dopamine and serotonin have important functions--could be involved in Tourette's syndrome. Noninvasive imaging studies show that the ventral striatum of Tourette's patients h...Exercising limbs protects brain cells affected by Parkinson's, study in rodents shows
... D. Cohen, a doctoral student in the department of neurology and Center for Neuroscience at the University of P...d Amanda Smith, Ph.D., also from the department of neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Related studies also were presented by Niklas Li...Jefferson scientists find new way to convert adult human stem cells to dopamine neurons
..." explains Dr. Iacovitti, who is also professor of neurology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. "The cells seem to have markers of both bone marrow cells and dopamine neurons all the time. They don't forsake what they normally would be." While she can't say for sure whether or not the...Anxiety good for memory recall, bad for solving complex problems
...der, a study co-author and a research assistant in neurology at Ohio State. "The results of the two problem-sol...y with David Beversdorf, an assistant professor of neurology at Ohio State. The two presented their findings on October 25 in San Diego at the annual Society for......hD, and Micheas Zemedkun, BS, in the department of neurology at Yale University School of Medicine. Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) are specialized glial cells found in nerves and brain tissue associated with the sense of smell. Nerve cells within the olfactory tissue in the nose divide throughout life and...