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H. Lundbeck A/S strengthens its pipeline of pharmaceuticals in clinical development by initiating phase IIa clinical studies with the innovative project Lu AA24493 in order to evaluate safety and tolerability and to explore t (Read More)
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The Stop ALD Foundation has applauded the investigators who are reporting in the current issue of Science successful results from the pioneering use of gene therapy for adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a potentially crippling and (Read More)
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An article published Online First and in the January edition of The Lancet Neurology reports that MRI scans on infants who's brains were oxygen deprived can predict with 80 percent accuracy the likelihood of death or disabili (Read More)
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People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have relapses within the first five years of onset appear to have more severe disability in the short term compared to people who do not have an early relapse, according to a new study (Read More)
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NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB, of Lund, Sweden, announced that on November 3, 2009 it completed the clinical phase of its study investigating tolerability and pharmacokinetics of the cremophor®-free cyclosporine i.v. formula Ne (Read More)
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Science now offers us ever more advanced ways to understand and control pain. But with those new treatments come new questions about the use (and misuse) of state-of-the-art technology and how far pain management can and shou (Read More)
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Radiation oncologists at Rush University Medical Center are intent on finding ways to avoid damage to the critically important hippocampus and limbic circuit of the brain when cranial radiation is required to treat existing o (Read More)
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Treating a common brain tumor with multiple sessions of radiation appears to result in less brain swelling than treating the tumor once with a high dose of radiation, say researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Cen (Read More)
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Seaside Therapeutics LLC announced that the Company has initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of STX107, a highly potent, selective mGluR5 antagonist, in development for the treatment of Fragile X Syndrome. The single ascending (Read More)
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Learning and memory tests can help predict whether a healthy person will develop Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) according to a report published in Neurology. People who have MCI are at an increased risk of going on to de (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual forceThe fame of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died aged 100, extended well beyond his own subject of anthropology. He was (Read More)
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New research shows that a rare brain disorder that causes early dementia is highly hereditary. The study is published in the November 3, 2009, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. (Read More)
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A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers. T (Read More)
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Researchers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center report promising results from a cutting-edge research study that treated the aggressive brain tumors glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) using a novel type of imaging called (Read More)
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SpineWorks, a medical device company focused on developing technologies to help treat those with complex spine conditions, announced that it will exhibit its FixxSure™ Cross Link at this year's North American Spine Society Me (Read More)
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- With financial backing from a leading nonprofit supporter of military medical research, medical device manufacturer Neuro Kinetics, Inc. (www.neuro-kinetics.com) said today that it is coll (Read More)
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Ipsen (Paris: IPN), an innovation-driven global specialty pharmaceutical group, announced that Dysport® is now available in the United States for the treatment of cervical dystonia in adults. (Read More)
Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today:
New research finds that adult neurons can still regenerate as long as 15 months after a spinal cord injury. The study, published by Cell Press in the October 29th issue of the journal Neuron, highlights the success of a strat (Read More)
Mind Hacks:
The first neurology book printed in English was called 'De Morbis Capitis' and appeared in 1650. An old article from the Archives of Neurology discusses the book and has a lovely excerpt where it discusses numerous bizarre-so (Read More)
CNN:
Producer, Peter Katz talks to The Screening Room about his study into neurology and how it can help mark horror films more terrifying.
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