Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/neurology/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241455.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241455.phpIn a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported that early transplantation of human placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells into the lateral ventricles of neonatal rats with birth-related brain damage is possible, and that the donor cells can survive and migrate in the recipient's brain...Neurology / Neuroscience Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241456.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241456.phpScientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new method for making scaffolds for culturing tissue in three-dimensional arrangements that mimic those in the body...Biology / Biochemistry Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241434.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241434.phpChronic neuropathic pain following a spinal cord injury is common and very difficult to treat, but a new therapeutic strategy requiring a one-time injection into the spinal column has potential to improve patient outcomes. This cutting-edge pain management strategy is described in an article published in Journal of Neurotrauma, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc...Pain / Anesthetics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241528.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241528.phpBy using a computerized model to study an electroencepholagram (EEG) brain pattern called "burst suppression", researchers in the US believe they have discovered a fundamental mechanism of how the brain behaves when the metabolic energy supply to brain cells is low...Neurology / Neuroscience Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241520.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241520.phpAs our knowledge of the human brain is advancing, researchers are optimistic that these advances will enhance the performance and lives of the UK's armed forces. However, the researchers caution that how research is prioritized should be given careful consideration in order to avoid cost to other applications...Neurology / Neuroscience Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241443.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241443.phpNew research from UCLA shows that stimulating key area of the brain can improve the memory. Perhaps we'll soon be free from those annoying afternoons, scrambling about looking for the dog's leash or the car keys...Neurology / Neuroscience Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241483.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241483.phpA report published Online First in Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, shows that under the revised criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, many patients who are currently diagnosed with very mild or mild Alzheimer disease dementia could potentially be reclassified as having mild cognitive impairment (MCI). According to John C. Morris, M.D...Alzheimer's / Dementia Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241444.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241444.phpA drug approved for the treatment of cancer appears to quickly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice, according to a new study from the US published in the journal Science on Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved bexarotene as a treatment for cutaneous T cell lymphoma, a type of skin cancer, in 2000...Alzheimer's / Dementia Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241393.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241393.phpThere are two key cell types in the brain that are central to the regulation of feeding behaviors, agouti-related peptide (AgRP)-expressing neurons and proopiomelancortin (POMC)-expressing neurons. Previous work has shown that the AgRP neurons promote feeding and weight gain, while the POMC cells have been linked with appetite suppression and weight loss...Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241411.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241411.phpThe American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has developed a guideline on the radiotherapeutic and surgical management for newly diagnosed brain metastases. It has been published in Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO), ASTRO's official clinical practice journal...Cancer / Oncology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241413.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241413.phpBy harnessing quantum dots - tiny light-emitting semiconductor particles a few billionths of a meter across - researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new and vastly more targeted way to stimulate neurons in the brain...Neurology / Neuroscience Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241416.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241416.phpSome unusual alliances are necessary for you to wiggle your fingers, researchers report. Understanding those relationships should enable better treatment of neuromuscular diseases, such as myasthenia gravis, which prevent muscles from taking orders from your brain, said Dr. Lin Mei, Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Georgia Health Sciences University...Neurology / Neuroscience Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241354.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241354.phpResearchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson examined data on patients being treated for lumbar stenosis and the degenerative spine condition spondylolisthesis and found that patients who received epidural steroid injections (ESI) had a higher rate of crossover to surgery and fared worse in physical health and bodily pain versus those who did not receive ESI, dispelling th...Neurology / Neuroscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241339.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241339.phpInnovative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can measure changes in the microstructure of the white matter likely to affect brain function and the ability of different regions of the brain to communicate are presented in an article in the groundbreaking new neuroscience journal Brain Connectivity, a bimonthly peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc....MRI / PET / Ultrasound Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241346.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241346.phpWhen you are about to collide into something and manage to swerve away just in the nick of time, what exactly is happening in your brain? A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University shows how the brain processes visual information to figure out when something is moving towards you or when you are about to head into a collision...Neurology / Neuroscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241317.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241317.phpEach part of the body has its own nerve cell area in the brain - we therefore have a map of our bodies in our heads. The functional significance of these maps is largely unclear. What effects they can have is now shown by RUB neuroscientists through reaction time measurements combined with learning experiments and "computational modelling"...Neurology / Neuroscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241318.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241318.phpTreatments for Parkinson's disease, estimated to affect 1 million Americans, have yet to prove effective in slowing the progression of the debilitating disease...Parkinson's Disease Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241319.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241319.phpThe use of padded headgear and gloves reduces the impact that fighters absorb from hits to the head, according to newly published research from Cleveland Clinic. In their biomechanics lab at Cleveland Clinic's Lutheran Hospital, the researchers replicated hook punches to the head using a crash test dummy and a pendulum...Sports Medicine / Fitness Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241321.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241321.phpResearchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center's VCU Massey Cancer Center and Harold F...Cancer / Oncology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241324.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241324.phpThe first European Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and management of Wilson's disease are published by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) on the EASL website*...Liver Disease / Hepatitis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241373.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241373.phpBy reverse engineering human skin cells to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and then coaxing them to become neural dopamine cells, scientists in the US have developed a way to study a genetic cause of Parkinson's disease in lab-made neurons...Parkinson's Disease Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241294.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241294.phpWelders who are exposed to manganese from welding fumes, risk developing increased clumsiness - and the result may remain decades after exposure has ceased. This is the finding of a study at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, of former shipyard workers...Neurology / Neuroscience Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241260.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241260.phpA Wayne State University researcher believes studying people's ability to find their way around may help explain why loss of mental capacity occurs with age. Scott Moffat, Ph.D...Seniors / Aging Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241268.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241268.phpTo explore the most intricate structures of the brain in order to decipher how it functions - Stefan Hell's team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen has made a significant step closer to this goal...Neurology / Neuroscience Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241269.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241269.phpThe body's control mechanisms for delivering zinc to cells could be key to improving treatment for some types of aggressive breast cancer. New research by Cardiff University and King's College London has identified the switch which releases zinc into cells, with important implications for a number of diseases. Zinc has long been known to play a vital part in human health...Breast Cancer