Brain scan A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provides important insights into how the body regulates its production of heat, a process known as thermogenesis that is currently intensely studied as a target of diabetes and obesity treatment in humans. While researchers had previously hypothesized that macrophages, a class...
Category: <span>Mental health</span>
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Low levels of ‘memory protein’ linked to cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease
Diagram of the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s Disease. Working with human brain tissue samples and genetically engineered mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers together with colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, the University of California San Diego Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Columbia University, and the Institute for Basic Research in Staten...
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Facebook and Brain-computer interface
In brief: Regina Dugan, Former DARPA executive and current head of Facebook’s mysterious Building 8, has released information about the work that the social media giant has been doing on brain-compute-interface meant to let you “communicate using only your mind” B8 the project the Facebook team is currently working on aims at 4 primary objects....
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Virtual reality to help autistic children
Key notes: Virtual Reality (VR) could help people with autism in crowded situations. VR people and environment is predictable. This technology involves tracking,3D audio and high-resolution video to indulge users in a virtual world. VR could help autistic children in the classroom very soon. This technology helps to break down the perceptual and societal hinderances...
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Suppressing single protein greatly extends life span of mice with ALS- like disease
Summary: A set of experiments at Standford reveals that suppressing a protein called Ataxin 2 dramatically extends survival and improves motor function in a mouse model of ALS. ALS: A study led by researchers at Standford University School of Medicine has discovered a new possible therapeutic approach for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis- a progressive neurodegenerative disease....
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Retraining the brain to see after stroke
Patients who suffered from partial blindness after a stroke regained sight after undergoing Visual training designed by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Flaum Eye institute. A new study in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology gives first evidence that vision could be revived back in patients who suffered...
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Toxoplasma infection and neurodegenerative disease
Summary: Toxoplasma gondii, A protozoan parasite, infects almost a third of the world’s population. Workings on mice biomedical scientists reveal that Toxoplasma infection leads to a disruption of neurotransmitters in the brain and postulates that it triggers neurological disease in those already who are predisposed to such infection. Infection leads to a significant increase in...
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The relationship between autism is disorder, anxiety and ADHD in children unveiled
Children with Autism spectrum disorder experience internal and external problems at higher rates than a normally developing child. These problems could worsen social impairment, according to the researchers with the Virginia Tech center for Autism Research. The study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, compared social impairment scores in 57 children. (3-17...
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New drug for Parkinson’s Psychosis
Parkinson’s disease is recognized through tremors, slow body movements and other motor issues. Up to half of the patients develop psychosis during the disease. It often occurs in the later stages of the disease and as a side effect from drugs prescribed to help motor skills. For decades, physicians have struggled to solve the motor...
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Dizziness in Parkinson’s may be due to Cerebral Hypoperfusion
A study published in the Journal of Clinical ultrasound claims that cerebral hypoperfusion contributes to dizziness in patients with Parkinson’s disease even without Orthostatic hypotension. Jinse Park, M.D from Inje University in Busan, South Korea and colleagues conducted transcranial doppler and blood pressure monitoring for 10 minutes during the head-up tilt test in PD patients...