POSTS TAGGED AS Neurology

Blood Biomarker for Parkinson’s

Alpha-synuclein is a protein in neural tissue of unknown function, except that its mutations or post translation modifications have [MORE]

Breath Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis typically is diagnosed by an expensive MRI scan or an invasive lumbar puncture.  This piece, however, reports [MORE]

Holographic Microscopy

Swiss scientists, at the Brain-Mind Institute in Lausanne, have used laser light to show change in neurons based on [MORE]

Noninvasive Assessment of Brain Pressure

Intracranial pressure above 20 mmHg, as might happen from bleeding or swelling, often is a consequence of traumatic rain [MORE]

Nightshirt Sleep Monitor

Based on respiration variation patterns between REM sleep and deep sleep, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Nyx Devices [MORE]

Drug-Device Strategy for Parkinson’s

Contrasting to the previous piece, Eli Lilly and Medtronic are collaborating on a new drug and companion device to [MORE]

Plying the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound

Using a headset to beam low-intensity ultrasound over the entire brain, for an hour’s duration, Perfusion Technology (Andover, MA) [MORE]

NovaVision’s Non-Invasive Light Therapy Helping Stroke Survivors

In honor of National Stroke Awareness Month,  NovaVision.com offers inspirational stroke survivor stories of vision recovery through the use of [MORE]

Matching Trial Patients to Typical Sufferers

Here’s a quandary: Medicare pays for arterial stenting when patients have stroke symptoms, but not all patients who receive [MORE]

Distance Monitoring of Sleep

Self monitoring for blood glucose, and self dosing for OTC medications are commonly practiced, so why not self experimentation [MORE]

More Horsepower for Molecular Imaging

Last month, four of the UK’s leading research institutions-the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, King’s College London, and [MORE]

Growing Retinas in vitro

This is exciting news even if you’re not concerned with retinal degeneration-researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Kobe, [MORE]

“Light” Patch for Alzheimer’s Therapy

Based on a theory that Alzheimer’s is a consequence of a deficient blood supply over time rather than an [MORE]

Smarttots Research Initiative

Anesthetic-induced neurotoxicity can be a serious consequence at any age, but for infants and children the damage could be [MORE]

Implantable Brain Prosthetic

Stroke victims who lose their speech ability, but eventually regain it, illustrate the brain’s plasticity in recovering from serious [MORE]

Celera’s CHD-Risk Diagnostic

On the short arm of Chromosome 6 is a variant of the KIF6 gene (i.e. kinesin-like family protein 6) [MORE]

A Giant Step for iPSC’s

In a “world’s first” for primates, researchers at Keio University in Tokyo implanted induced pleuripotent stem cells (derived from [MORE]

Smart Chips for Chronic Pain

Researchers at a national laboratory in Sydney, Australia have developed a tiny (about the size of a match head) [MORE]

The Patient Channel

When does a behavioral intervention have the greatest effect?  The Patient Channel supposes that moment is when the patient [MORE]

Culturing Brain Tissue

In tissue culturing a medullary preparation, technicians often use a tilt device that manipulates the sample on two axes.  [MORE]