Treatment-Resistant Depression: Results of Latest Electromagnetic Stimulation Study Show Promise
...e M. Greene, M.D., in the abstract; Dr.Greene is a neurosciences fellow at the Emory University School of Medicine andhas collaborated on the open trial with William McDonald, M.D., associateprofessor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Emory University Schoolof Medicine, and others. "Sixty-four percen...Regents award grant to med school for neurogenetics
... president for medical affairs, said, "Research in neurosciences and especially in the genetic aspect of neurosciences is one of our high priority developmental areas. We are grateful to the Ohio Board of Regents for th...Stroke teams double access to fast care without higher costs
...e studys lead author and an assistant professor of neurosciences at the University of California San Diego Medical Center. Investigators compared tPA use during a two-year period at the San Diego Medical Center and neighboring hospitals. In the first year, from July 1999 through June 2000, a stroke team was not a...Post-genomic technique provides real-time, multiscale look at protein life cycles in living cells
...enes, said Mark Ellisman, Ph.D., UCSD professor of neurosciences and bioengineering, director of NCMIR and senior author of the study published in Science. The challenge is the development of technologies and methodologies to mark and observe those proteins in living cells, to see how they fit together into teams ...DARPA to support development of human brain-machine interfaces
...articular behavior," he said. "Traditionally, the neurosciences have taken a reductionist approach, with investigators trying to understand individual neurons, molecules and genes. We are trying to understand the brain's function as a dynamic system." Nicolelis, Henriquez and their colleagues are among researche...Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide imaging network
...chnology. Led by Mark Ellisman, UCSD professor of neurosciences and director of the BIRN coordinating center, the researchers will examine the major sources of variation in brain imaging studies, including the instruments used, calibration of equipment and data analysis, to find avenues for large-scale experiment...Scientists develop technique that uses ultrafast lasers to obtain hi-quality images of brain tissue
...o a lament from Beth Friedman, a researcher in the neurosciences department at UCSD and the neuroanatomist on the project," recalls Kleinfeld. "Beth felt that current methods to reconstruct the architecture of regions of the brain were simply tedious and inaccurate in comparison with the rapid assays for genes an...Hospital care quality differs markedly by state: annual HealthGrades study
...cover cardiac care, orthopedics, vascular surgery, neurosciences and pulmonary medicine. New categories added this year include atrial fibrillation, gastrointestinal bleed, sepsis, prostatectomy, cholecystectomy and bowel obstruction. A five-star rating in a given category reflects performance statistically bette...Reduced scarring helps nerves grow through spinal injuries
...udy and an assistant professor of neurosurgery and neurosciences at BCM. "Infusion of decorin into spinal cord injuries prevents the formation of proteoglycan rich scar tissue by suppressing inflammation." Misaligned scar tissue that forms at spinal cord injuries physically blocks nerve regeneration and contains m...Schizophrenia patients don't take medications regularly
...ilip Jeste, M.D., UCSD professor of psychiatry and neurosciences and the Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging. "Hospital expenditures, for example, are more than three times higher among those who are non-adherent than are expenditures for patients who take their medication on schedule." Jeste, who is also direc...Preliminary results are promising in Alzheimer's gene therapy trial
...stigator Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurosciences at the UCSD School of Medicine. "These results a...n to Tuszynski, are Leon Thal, M.D., UCSD chair of neurosciences and director of the UCSD ADRC; Mary Margaret Pay, R.N. of the UCSD ADRC; Hoi-Sang U, UCSD professor ...Diabetes linked to increased risk of Alzheimer's in long-term study
...head of the Dementias of Aging Branch in the NIA's neurosciences program. "Further research, some currently underway, will tell us whether therapies for diabetes may in fact play a role in lowering risk of AD or cognitive decline." Some 824 Catholic nuns, priests, and brothers participating in the Religious Orders...Diabetics at significantly higher risk for Alzheimer's disease
...head of the Dementias of Aging Branch in the NIA's neurosciences program. "Further research, some currently underway, will tell us whether therapies for diabetes may in fact play a role in lowering risk of AD or cognitive decline."Diabetes mellitus is a common condition affecting about 20 percent of people over ag...Prenatal alcohol exposure has effects far beyond fetal alcohol syndrome
...sor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and first author of the study. "ARND refers to nonsyndromal individuals with confirmed heavy prenatal alcohol exposure who exhibit measurable, but generally subtler neurobehavioral deficits than those se...