MRI scans from a study presented at SLEEP 2012 reveal how sleep deprivation impairs the higher-order regions in the human brain where food choices are made, possibly helping explain the link between sleep loss and obesity that previous research has uncovered.
Neuro News
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11/06/2012
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09/06/2012
A 25-year follow-up study reveals that 68% of patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) became seizure-free, with nearly 30% no longer needing antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment. Findings published in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), report that the occurrence of generalized tonic-clonic seizures preceded by bilateral myoclonic seizures, and AED polytherapy significantly predicted poor long-term seizure outcome.
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08/06/2012
New research into the cell-damaging effects of Huntington's disease suggests a potentially new approach for identifying possible therapeutic targets for treating the nerve-destroying disorder.
Huntington's disease causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain and affects an individual's movement, cognition and mental state. Genetically, the disease is associated with a mutation in the Huntington gene that causes the huntington protein to be produced with an extended region containing the amino acid glutamine.
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29/05/2012
Today (May 30th) is World MS day (WMSD), an annual global awareness raising campaign for multiple sclerosis - a debilitating disease which affects the lives of more than two million people around the world.
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29/05/2012
TAU research finds that exising diabetes medication may ease damage caused by brain-addling explosions.
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07/05/2012
One of the Neurological Foundation’s most enthusiastic supporters, Mark Brehaut, died in a motorcycle racing accident on Saturday 5 May following a collision with another rider. Our sincere condolences go out to Mark’s wife Janice and family.
Wellington-based Mark had been supporting the Neurological Foundation for the last two years, passionately raising awareness about, and funding for, neurological research. Mark was diagnosed with a colloid cyst on the brain in 2008 and survived lengthy emergency surgery. Grateful for his second chance at life, he devoted every spare minute to ‘giving back’. Mark made a great impact on everyone who crossed his path, and we are grateful to have known him.
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04/05/2012
In a study that appears in the May 10, 2012 issue of the journal Neuron, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have pinpointed a mechanism that is essential for forming memories in the first place and, as it turns out, is equally essential for eliminating them after memories have formed.
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04/05/2012
Research into hearing loss after exposure to loud noises could lead to the first drug treatments to prevent the development of tinnitus.
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01/05/2012
Glioblastoma is the most prevalent and deadliest type of brain cancer, and each year around 10,000 individuals in the U.S. are diagnosed with the disease. Now, researchers have found a protein that may provide insight into how the disease moves and invades nearby healthy brain tissue.
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25/04/2012
Happy or frightful memories like the first kiss or a bump in the night leave memory traces or engrams that we may stimulate when we remember things in the past, complete with time, place and all the sensations we experienced.