| Stroke researchers report improvement in spatial neglect with prism adaptation therapy Posted: 27 Dec 2013 01:18 PM PST Stroke rehabilitation researchers report improvement in spatial neglect with prism adaptation therapy. This new study supports behavioral classification of patients with spatial neglect as a valuable tool for assigning targeted, effective early rehabilitation with prism adaptation.  |
| Building a better malaria vaccine: Mixing the right cocktail Posted: 27 Dec 2013 07:04 AM PST A safe and effective malaria vaccine is high on the wish list of most people concerned with global health. New results suggest how a leading vaccine candidate could be vastly improved.  |
| Antioxidant drug knocks down multiple sclerosis-like disease in mice Posted: 26 Dec 2013 03:17 PM PST Researchers have discovered that an antioxidant designed more than a dozen years ago to fight damage within human cells significantly helps symptoms in mice that have a multiple sclerosis-like disease.  |
| Children at lower risk for peanut, tree nut allergies if moms ate more nuts while pregnant, study suggests Posted: 23 Dec 2013 03:18 PM PST Women need not fear that eating peanuts during pregnancy could cause their child to develop a peanut allergy, according to a new study. The studies shows increased peanut consumption by pregnant mothers who weren't nut allergic was associated with lower risk of peanut allergy in their offspring.  |
| Common disorders: It's not the genes themselves, but how they are controlled Posted: 20 Dec 2013 08:32 AM PST Many rare disorders are caused by gene mutation. Yet until now, the underlying genetic cause of more common conditions has evaded scientists. New research finds that six common diseases arise from DNA changes located outside genes. The study shows that multiple DNA changes, or variants, work in concert to affect genes, leading to autoimmune diseases.  |
| First genetic model of human jaw fusion defect known as syngnathia Posted: 19 Dec 2013 04:59 PM PST The face you critiqued in the mirror this morning was sculpted before you were born by a transient population of cells called neural crest cells. Those cells spring from neural tissue of the brain and embryonic spinal cord and travel throughout the body, where they morph into highly specialized bone structures, cartilage, connective tissue, and nerve cells.  |
| Links of childhood pain to adult chronic paim, fibromyalgia Posted: 19 Dec 2013 01:25 PM PST There is strong evidence showing that individuals who experienced chronic pain during childhood have chronic pain as adults, but few studies have evaluated the characteristics of pain that persists from childhood through adult years. Researchers have found that one in six adult pain patients had pain as children or adolescents, and their pain was widespread and neuropathic with psychological comorbidities and decreased function.  |
| Many people with diabetes still lose vision, despite availability of vision-sparing treatment Posted: 19 Dec 2013 01:25 PM PST Despite recent advances in prevention and treatment of most vision loss attributed to diabetes, a new study shows that fewer than half of Americans with damage to their eyes from diabetes are aware of the link between the disease and visual impairment, and only six in 10 had their eyes fully examined in the year leading up to the study.  |
| MRI method for measuring MS progression validated Posted: 19 Dec 2013 10:09 AM PST New imaging research has demonstrated that a magnetic resonance imaging approach called quantitative susceptibility mapping can be an important tool for diagnosing and tracking the progression of Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological diseases.  |
| Renegades of cell biology: Why K-Ras gene mutations prove so deadly in cancer Posted: 19 Dec 2013 09:59 AM PST Cells with a mutation in the gene called K-Ras —- found in close to 30 percent of all cancers, but mostly those with worst prognosis, such as pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer -— subvert the normal mechanisms of cell death.  |
| Study reveals insight into how brain processes shape, color Posted: 19 Dec 2013 07:27 AM PST A new study by neuroscientists is the first to directly compare brain responses to faces and objects with responses to colors. The paper reveals new information about how the brain's inferior temporal (IT) cortex processes information.  |
| Warfarin increases risk of stroke among atrial fibrillation patients in first 30 days of use Posted: 19 Dec 2013 06:34 AM PST Patients with atrial fibrillation – an irregular and often abnormally fast heartbeat – have nearly double the risk of suffering a stroke in the first 30 days after starting to take the anti-clotting drug warfarin compared to non-users, according to a study of over 70,000 patients.  |
| Emotions in Parkinson's disease Posted: 19 Dec 2013 05:27 AM PST A study conducted investigates the origins of the difficulty recognizing certain emotions that affects patients with Parkinson's disease. Is this impairment caused by the disease itself or is it in part the consequence of a widely used treatment (deep brain stimulation)?  |
