257 Articles with the topic: Neurological Disorders
Blocking enzyme could help in rare blood cancer
jerry submitted, created time 2 weeks 3 days (www.reuters.com)
An enzyme that fights some kinds of cancers may foster the growth of a rare type of leukemia that affects babies, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that may lead to new drugs for the hard-to-treat disease. There is also talk of applications in Alzheimer's and diabetes.
The enzyme is called glycogen synthase kinase, or GSK3, and blocking it might be an effective way to treat this type of leukemia--for which chemotherapy is characteristically ineffective. Existing drugs used for bipolar disease seem to do a shaky but effective job. 
Eating fatty fish lowers risk of dementia
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 weeks 4 days (www.msnbc.msn.com)
Eating tuna and other fatty fish may help prevent memory loss in addition to reducing the risk of stroke, Finnish researchers said on Monday.
Eyes: A New Window on Mental Disorders
jerry submitted, created time 2 weeks 6 days (www.sciam.com)
Clues about autism, Williams syndrome and the social brain come from tracking eye movements. This method may be useful, researchers say, because it is not necessary for the participant to understand or even know what the researcher is doing.
Gene chips unmask cryptic diseases
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 weeks 1 hour (www.nature.com)
People with diverse symptoms including mental retardation, small head size, heart problems and cataracts have genomic rearrangements on the same region of chromosome 1, researchers reported last week.
C-sections might affect a new mother's ability to bond
Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 weeks 4 days (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
This is interesting. It's a New York Times writeup of a study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry showing that women who deliver their children vaginally as opposed to by C-section are more responsive to the sound of infants crying a short time after the birth takes place.
There are some flaws in this study. First off, it only involved a small number of women, which increases the likelihood of statistical errors. Second, it does not show how whether this is a case of delayed attachment or stunted attachment. C-section moms might well catch up as time passes
Fatal Protein Interactions and Neurological Diseases
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 weeks 1 day (www.sciencedaily.com)
The new and unique molecular structures they discovered can now be used to model and develop new drugs for these devastating neurological diseases. Their findings will be published in the September 3 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE on September 4, 2008.
The team, led by Eliezer Masliah, M.D
Study Dispels Link Between Autism and Measles Vaccine
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 1 day (www.washingtonpost.com)
Hoping to dispel long-running concerns that autism is linked to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR), researchers now say a new study shows the childhood vaccine does not raise that risk.
Fatal protein interactions may explain neurological diseases
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 2 days (esciencenews.com)
In a collaborative study at the University of California, San Diego, investigators from neurosciences, chemistry and medicine, as well as the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have investigated how proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease interact to form unique complexes. Their findings explain why Alzheimer's patients might develop Parkinson's, and vice versa. The new and unique molecular structures they discovered can now be used to model and develop new drugs for these devastating neurological diseases
Alzheimer's Protein Tracked in Injured Brains
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 4 days (www.time.com)
Scientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease...
Exposure to antipsychotics and risk of stroke
lavrock submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.bmj.com)
In UK primary care antipsychotic drug use was associated with an increased risk of stroke, and the risk was raised further by use of atypical drugs and by having dementia, according to this self controlled case series study. An accompaning editorial explains how this study design illustrates the relation between antipsychotics and stroke.
Gene Identified for Deadly Childhood Cancer
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Fifteen years of genetic sleuthing have finally paid off: Researchers have nailed the gene that appears to cause an inherited form of neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system that predominantly strikes children. Scientists are optimistic that the findings will allow them to develop disease screening for some families, as well as lead to potential new therapies.
Gene mutations reveal schizophrenia's complexity
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
The three largest genetic schizophrenia studies to date have uncovered several ways in which changes to the genome may increase the risk of developing the condition.
The studies bring to light several common variations that increase the risk slightly, and rarer ones that raise it significantly, researchers say.
Early pregnancy trauma boosts schizophrenia risk
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
Excessive stress is never a good thing, but new research suggests that children of women who suffered severe psychological stress during early pregnancy are more likely to develop schizophrenia. ...
High-Fat Diet Found to Fight Seizures in Kids
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.usnews.com)
A diet high in fat—extremely high in fat, that is—has just been shown in a clinical trial to cut seizure frequency in children with severe, drug-resistant epilepsy. It's not a cure, and it's not an easy treatment to stomach, but it works, British researchers reported Friday in the journal Lancet Neurology.
Dr. Atkins himself might have gagged on the therapeutic regimen, which is called the ketogenic diet. It's so fatty that carbohydrates and protein combined aren't permitted to account for more than twenty-five percent of total calories
FDA Approves First Drug for Treatment of Chorea in Huntington’s Disease
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.fda.gov)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xenazine (tetrabenazine) for the treatment of chorea in people with Huntington’s disease. Chorea is the jerky, involuntary movement that occurs in people with this disease.
Xenazine is a new drug and is the first treatment of any kind approved in the United States for any symptom of Huntington’s disease. Currently there are no other drugs that are FDA-approved to treat chorea.
Serious side effects reported with use of Xenazine include depression and suicidal thoughts and actions
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