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A neuroscience expert has called on the U.S. House of Representatives to advance a global agenda for brain health. Speaking at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, Gladys E. Maestre, from the Rio Grande Valley Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research [...]
Females sleep less, wake up more often and get less restorative sleep than males, according to a new animal study. The findings shed new light on what may underlie sleep differences in men and women and could have broad implications for biomedical research, which for decades has focused primarily on males. “In humans, men and [...]
New research has demonstrated that scientists can train artificial intelligence (AI) models to distinguish brain tumours from healthy tissue. Convolutional neural networks are powerful tools that allow researchers to train AI models on large image datasets to recognise and classify images. In this way the networks can “learn” to distinguish between pictures. The networks also [...]
Pharmaceutical company, Biocodex, is developing a new oral-suspension formulation for DIACOMIT, an FDA-approved treatment indicated for the management of seizures associated with Dravet syndrome. Dravet syndrome is a rare and severe genetic epilepsy that most commonly begins before the age of one when an otherwise normally developing child begins having frequent, prolonged seizures. These seizures [...]
Promising new research to develop gene therapy to treat motor neurone disease (MND) and other conditions like dementia has secured major investment. The new potential treatment discovered by a team at University College London (UCL) and backed by the MND Association, My Name’5 Doddie Foundation and LifeArc, has moved one step closer to people living [...]
Gene therapy can effectively treat various diseases, but for some debilitating conditions like muscular dystrophies there is a big problem: size. The genes that are dysfunctional in muscular dystrophies are often extremely large, and current delivery methods can’t courier such substantial genetic loads into the body. A new technology, dubbed “StitchR,” surmounts this obstacle by [...]
A new discovery that could revolutionise our understanding of genetic mutations and their role in brain development has revealed that not all genetic mutations are harmful, but some may actually offer protection against developmental disorders. Led by Professor Illana Gozes, Director, The Elton Laboratory for Molecular Neuroendocrinology at Tel Aviv University, the research team identified [...]
For the first time, an animal study has demonstrated that the cannabinoid cannabinol - CBN - increases sleep "with a comparable effect to the known sleep drug zolpidem", according to researchers. A number of studies have so far suggested that cannabis may contribute to improved sleep, however, minimal studies have examined the role of CBN [...]
MIT engineers have found that exercise can have benefits at the level of individual neurons, observing that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of biochemical signals called myokines. In the presence of these muscle-generated signals, neurons grew four times farther compared to neurons that were not exposed to myokines. These cellular-level experiments [...]
An international team of researchers has provided a genetic diagnosis for 30 individuals whose condition was undiagnosed for years despite extensive clinical or genetic testing. “The story of our findings began with one patient I saw in the clinic presenting an uncommon combination of problems,” said first and co-corresponding author Dr. Daniel Calame, instructor of [...]
