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President Obama’s recently announced effort to map the human brain and existing European efforts like the Human Brain Project are taking direct aim at neurological disorders and diseases. Schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, ...
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- How To Protect The Brain In Old Age (and Stop Alzheimer's)
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Scientists in the UK, Portugal and Germany solved the structure of kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO ), a protein implicated in the neurodegeneration (destruction of nerve cells) seen in diseases associated with old age, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’ ...
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- Hallucinations Of Musical Notation: The Neural Basis
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... a white background. A Sanskrit scholar who developed Parkinson's disease in his 60s and later reported hallucinating ...
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- Amyloid Proteins May Be Getting Too Much Blame In Alzheimer's
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... and diseases like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's." Steinman's research led to the development of natalizumab ...
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- Anything At All Concerning About Brain Mapping?
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... What this is is refinement. Instead treating epilepsy, Parkinson's or depression by having a single-shank deep brain stimulation probe ...
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- NFL Concussions Require Long-Term Care
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... and motor problems similar to the early symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Further testing of these older athletes turned up a ...
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- Dr. Evil As Spokesman For Neuroscience: You'll Pay $1 Trillion In Health Care Costs Unless...
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In the United States, billions of dollars have been spent on marketing to convince people to go into science careers, despite the difficulty many PhDs will have finding jobs in academia. That, coupled with the fact that efforts are on to make funding mo ...
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- Phase I Trial For Pharmacokinetics Of KU-046 In Alzheimer's Disease
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... discover drug candidates for other CNS diseases such as Parkinson's and Huntington's disease which have similar energy ...
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- Fat Influences Brain Cells
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... play an important role in a number of diseases, such as Parkinson's disease. What was not known, however, was which ... dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that dies in Parkinson's disease. This finding opens the possibility of using cholesterol ...
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- Blocking protein may help ease painful nerve condition
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... and central nervous system phenomena like stroke and Parkinson's disease. (Social Sciences) ...
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