Innovative approach affords Binghamton University researchers clearer view of autism
...lored to each child with severe social interaction deficits will be developed based upon the parental and comprehensive laboratory assessments....Cognitive impairment appears to be common in ALS patients
...showed evidence of cognitive impairment, but these deficits did not appear to be related to survival, according to a study in the March issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig disease, is a progressive disorder characterized by the loss of mus...JRRD special issue on hearing and hearing loss
...ked while listening. Results show that age-related deficits in the connection between the two halves of the brain may contribute to listening problems experienced by older listeners. Implications for clinical audiological rehabilitative efforts in this population are discussed. Hair cell regeneration: Is it...Receptor critical in neurodegeneration reduces Alzheimer's plaque
...e protein, NogoReceptor, may be a way to treat the deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease," said Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., senior author of the study and co-director of the new program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair at Yale. It is well known that the clinical dementia of Alzhe...48 hour access target for UK sexual health clinics impossible
...clinics] as many primary care trusts struggle with deficits and other priorities." They cite examples of numerous surveys, pointing to continued long waits for access to routine appointments - as high as 28 days in Northern Ireland - and the increasing trend for restricted access. Almost one in five clinics h...Researchers isolate causes of cognitive loss following coronary artery bypass surgery
...an significantly reduce the incidence of cognitive deficits in coronary artery bypass graft patients compared ...neurological deficits. The number of patients with deficits declined steadily in both the group without the heart-lung machine, and the group with minimal movem...New compound stops brain cell degeneration in Alzheimer's disease
...mpound also attenuated Alzheimer's-like behavioral deficits in the mice that are due to injury to the hippocampus. While previous research by the authors and many other investigators in the field has linked plaques, tangles and neuronal injury to synaptic dysfunction and cognitive decline, the direct linkag...UCI wins $2.4 million grant to study how brain understands language
...cientists to correlate different types of language deficits with damage to different brain regions. The data from stroke patients will then be compared with the results of the fMRI scans. Hickok's previous work on this project was restricted to functional imaging studies of healthy individuals. "Comparison of...Eye cell implants improve motor symptoms for Parkinson patients
...rriers. These implants have ameliorated the motor deficits in animal models of Parkinson disease, according to background information in the article. (The retinal pigment epithelium is the pigment cell layer found in the inner layer of the retina of the eye.) Natividad P. Stover, M.D., of the University of ...Immunosuppressive drug appears effective in reducing new brain lesions in MS patients
...en the person fully or partially recovers from the deficits acquired during the relapse. The patients were evaluated for six months before and six months during treatment with azathioprine, and new lesions were evaluated during the same periods and after an additional six months. "The results of this study s...UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system
...ional mirror neuron system may underlie the social deficits observed in autism," said Mirella Dapretto, lead author and assistant professor in residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. ...Uncontrolled high blood pressure means more cognitive problems in old age
...ontrolled hypertension produces specific cognitive deficits beyond those attributable to age alone," the researchers report. They also note that their findings are consistent with other studies that suggest that anti-hypertensive drugs do not hurt cognition, given that the men with controlled hypertension wh...Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development tipsheet
...rge clinicians developing treatment plans for gait deficits on overground or treadmills walking to consider the effects of slower gait speed in helping patients with neurological disorders regain a normal walking pattern sooner. Walking speed predicts health status and hospital costs for frail elderly pat...Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism
...cal for the appropriate generation of actions show deficits in autistic individuals. In addition, we wanted to see if these deficits were further compounded by the presence of social cues on which executive decisions had to be based,...New 'eye movement' test may help treat fetal alcohol syndrome
...h Research. "Now we can begin to identify specific deficits in these children." Many of the behavioural tests ...ted with hyperactivity, difficulty in learning and deficits in memory, understanding and reasoning, as well as problems dealing with stressful situations. The n...Antisocial behavior in children associated with gene variant and environmental risk factors
...nformation in the article. Given the links between deficits in a brain region called the prefrontal cortical and antisocial behavior and between the enzyme catechol O-methyltranferase (COMT) and prefrontal cortical functioning, the authors suggest that a variant of the COMT gene might be associated with antis...Penn researchers utilize MRI for early diagnosis of schizophrenia
...gnitive remediation efforts that will palliate the deficits and allow better adaptation," said Raquel Gur, MD, PhD, Director of the Schizophrenia Center with the Department of Psychiatry at UPHS, who performed the studies supported by NIMH. Davatzikos further explains, "If you can diagnose schizophrenia early...Adolescents feel less biological pressure to head to bed early
...lt lifestyles and for performing tasks under sleep deficits that are common in adults of modern societies," the authors conclude....'Big picture' of brain changes may be crucial to recovery from stroke injury
...y site is critical to understanding the behavioral deficits caused by injury and assessing the options to accelerate recovery from those deficits." The new study, published online Oct. 16 in Nature Neuroscience, focused on patients with injuries located on the right side of the brain, approximately between t...Early life stress can lead to memory loss and cognitive decline in middle age
...l communication in adulthood. These cell-signaling deficits occur in the hippocampus, a brain region involved ... "graduates" of early life stress began to exhibit deficits in their ability to remember the location of objects they had seen before, as well as to recognize o...