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Harnessing the brain's plasticity key to treating neurological damage
02-15-2007 · EurekAlert!With an aging population susceptible to stroke, Parkinson's disease and other neurological conditions, and military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious limb injuries, the need for strategies that treat complex neurological impairments has never been greater.
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- Harnessing the brain’s plasticity key to treating neurological damage
02-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
With an aging population susceptible to stroke, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions, and military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious limb injuries, the need for strategies that treat complex neurological impairments has never been greater.
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- Gene triggers obsessive compulsive disorder-like syndrome in mice
08-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Using genetic engineering, researchers have created an obsessive-compulsive disorder-like set of behaviors in mice and reversed them with antidepressants and genetic targeting of a key brain circuit. The study, by National Institutes of Health-funded researchers, suggests new strategies for treating the disorder.
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- Green tea extract protects against brain damage in new mouse model of HIV-related dementia
05-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
A green tea extract may represent a new and natural compound for preventing and treating HIV-associated dementia, a study using a new mouse model for the devastating disease suggests.
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- Research links 'ecstasy' to survival of key movement-related cells in brain
10-18-2006 · EurekAlert!
New research from the University of Cincinnati suggests that the widely abused club drug "ecstasy," or MDMA, can increase the survival of dopamine cells in the brain during fetal development. Because these cells are critical in the regulation of voluntary movement, the findings, the researchers say, may lead to better therapies for neurological diseases like Parkinson's.
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- It's in your head: The brain's own globin defends you from shock and stroke
10-31-2006 · EurekAlert!
The next generation of treatments for shock or stroke could be based on a protein that is already in our heads -- neuroglobin. In a review article to be published in the November issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists from University of Rome describe this protein, which may be the key to unlocking new therapies to minimize brain damage and improve recoveries for patients.
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- Separating the brain's 'bad' from 'good' iron
08-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Duke University chemists are developing ways to bind up iron in the brain to combat the neurological devastation of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. The key is to weed out potentially destructive forms of iron that generate harmful free radicals while leaving benign forms of iron alone to carry out vital functions in the body.
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- Antioxidants decrease disease in a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease
12-14-2006 · EurekAlert!
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which brain cells damaged by naturally occurring chemicals known as reactive oxygen species have been observed. Whether this oxidative damage causes neurodegeneration or is a consequence of it has not been previously determined. A study now indicates that oxidative damage contributes to neurodegeneration in a Drosophila model of disorders such as AD, suggesting that targeting antioxidant pathways might provide a new approach for treating individuals with AD.
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- Brain inflammation may be friend, not foe, for Alzheimer's patients
06-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Inflammation in the brain may not be so bad after all when it comes to Alzheimer's disease. Scientists have shown that a key inflammatory regulator, a known villain when it comes to parsing out damage after a stroke and other brain injuries, seems to do the opposite in Alzheimer's disease, protecting the brain and helping get rid of clumps of material known as plaques that are a hallmark of the disease.
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- Blocking immune cell action increases Alzheimer's-associated protein deposits
03-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
The immune system's response against amyloid-beta, the protein that forms plaques in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, appears to protect the brain from damage in early stages of the devastating neurological disorder. A report from Massachusetts General Hospital researchers finds that lack of a protein required for recruitment of the brain's primary immune cell led to increased amyloid-beta deposits and earlier death in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
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- St. Louis University scientists identify chemical that triggers Parkinson's disease
10-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the St. Louis University School of Medicine have discovered the key brain chemical that causes Parkinson's disease -- a breakthrough finding that could pave the way for new, far more effective therapies to treat one of the most common and debilitating neurological disorders.
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