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... implications for treating injured human spinal cords and Parkinson's disease, where movements slow down and become erratic. The ... light up as the animals moved at different speeds. In Parkinson's disease, researchers believe that a neurotransmitter released by ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2007 - 3:52pm - 0 attachments

Using a state-of-the-art technique to map neurons in the spinal cord of a larval zebrafish, Cornell University scientists have found a surprising pattern of activity that regulates the speed of the fish’s movement. The research may have long-term impli ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2007 - 1:37pm - 0 attachments

... and chemical abnormalities underlying Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological diseases, Mikula said. To make the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2007 - 11:47pm - 0 attachments

Scientists from Université Laval’s Faculty of Medicine have succeeded in producing neurons in vitro using stem cells extracted from adult human skin. This is the first time such an advanced state of nerve cell differentiation has been achieved from huma ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2007 - 10:26am - 0 attachments

With an aging population susceptible to stroke, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions, and military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious limb injuries, the need for strategies that treat complex neurological impair ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2007 - 12:22pm - 0 attachments

The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as “Google of the brain.” The atlas now has a companion or the brain’s working molecules, a sort of pop-up book of the proteins, or proteome map, that those ge ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2007 - 7:08pm - 0 attachments

... contributing to aging and aging-related diseases like Parkinson's. This might happen more often or differently in males, Tower ...

Article - Pierre Far - Feb 12 2007 - 11:37am - 0 attachments

Patients with Parkinson's disease who are younger when they develop the condition, have a ... with dopamine agonists, medications used to treat Parkinson's disease. In studies examining the relationship between dopamine ... compared the characteristics of 21 patients with Parkinson's disease who developed pathological gambling habits after beginning ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2007 - 10:29pm - 0 attachments

The number of individuals with Parkinson's disease in 15 of the world's largest nations will double over the ... threat. The growth in chronic diseases such as Parkinson's is one of the unfortunate byproducts of development. Economic ... of people over age 65 and thus at risk of developing Parkinson's and other chronic conditions. Furthermore, as income grows, so too ...

Article - Administrator - Jan 29 2007 - 9:22pm - 0 attachments