Using a form of low-impulse electrical stimulation to the brain, documented by neuroimaging, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) and collaborators elsewhere, report significantly improved neural function in participants with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). Their findings are published online in the current...
Category: <span>Mental health</span>
Post
Computer model showed an optimal anti-amyloid treatment
One must activate amyloid degradation as soon as possible to prevent the appearance of the protein plaques in brain under Alzheimer’s conditions. Moscow, Russia, September 28, 2017 – One must activate amyloid degradation as soon as possible to prevent the appearance of the protein plaques in brain under Alzheimer’s conditions. This conclusion was reached by...
Post
Scientists discover why Parkinson’s sufferers like Robin Williams may suffer hallucinations
Parkinson’s patients with hallucinations have disconnections between more areas of their brains than Parkinson’s patients without hallucinations The additional disconnections are between areas of the brain controlling the ability to process visual information and to pay attention MRI scans could help doctors detect increased disconnections that may lead to hallucinations in Parkinson’s patients These new...
Post
Contribution of transcranial magnetic stimulation to assessment of brain connectivity and networks
The goal of this review is to show how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) techniques can make a contribution to the study of brain networks. Brain networks are fundamental in understanding how the brain operates. Effects on remote areas can be directly observed or identified after a period of stimulation, and each section of this review...
Post
StimTrack: An open-source software for manual transcranial magnetic stimulation coil positioning
1. Introduction Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive and painless technique to stimulate the human brain with an electromagnetic coil placed on the scalp. TMS is widely used as a tool to assess corticospinal excitability, a commonly used marker for corticospinal plasticity (Hallett, 2000). With the coil placed over the primary motor cortex a twitch in a contralateral muscle...
Post
Is this the Alzheimer’s gene? Scientists find gene that raises risk of condition 12-fold
Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis studied the gene ApoE4 and its impact on the brain The mutant gene was discovered in 1993 and has been a mystery since for how it causes an increase in Alzheimer’s for people It is linked to brain damage from knots of protein in the...
Post
Psychosis in Parkinson’s dementia—new treatment provides hope
New research involving King’s College London and the University of Exeter has highlighted the benefits of a promising new treatment which could relieve psychosis in thousands of people with dementia related to Parkinson’s disease. Around 80 per cent of people with Parkinson’s disease develop dementia, totalling around 100,000 people in the UK. ,The majority of these...
Post
Study links suicidal thoughts to brain inflammation
New research suggests anti-inflammatory drugs could be used to manage acute depressive symptoms in some people A growing body of research is suggesting that brain inflammation could be responsible for some major depressive episodes. A new study from a team at the University of Manchester has now made an even more specific contention –...
Post
After 15 years in a vegetative state, nerve stimulation restores consciousness
[18F]-Fluorodeoxyglucose FDG-PET images acquired during baseline (on the left, pre-VNS) and 3 months post vagus nerve stimulation (on the right, post-VNS). After vagus nerve stimulation, the metabolism increased in the right …more A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after...
Post
The rat race is over: New livestock model for stroke could speed discovery
Associate Professor Franklin West and Emily Baker working with induced pluripotent stem cells generated from a patient’s own somatic cells. It is well-known in the medical field that the pig brain shares certain physiological and anatomical similarities with the human brain. So similar are the two that researchers at the University of Georgia’s Regenerative...