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Prostate drug could revolutionise motor neuron disease treatment
A new study has found a repurposed drug could help patients with their motor neuron disease treatment.
University of Edinburgh researchers have found a drug...
Astrocytes may be a cause of autism spectrum disorder symptoms
A Weill Cornell Medicine study has identified that brain cells called astrocytes may be influential in causing symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.
The Weill Cornell...
European Commission approves epilepsy medicine to treat children
The European Commission has approved expanding the indication of anti-epileptic agent Fycompa to include the treatment of children with epilepsy.
The European Commission (EC) has...
Laboratory model looking at how a HIV infection impacts the brain
Scientists have used a newly developed laboratory model of three types of brain cells to reveal how a HIV infection can impact the brain.
The...
Researchers identify antibody link between epilepsy and brain inflammation
New research has identified a mechanism that explains the link between epilepsy and brain inflammation that could help with new therapies against certain forms...
New neurodegenerative brain disorder discovered in children
A new study has uncovered a neurodegenerative brain disorder that can be experienced by children.
A study has uncovered a new neurodegenerative disorder in which...
Autism: ‘social’ and ‘visual’ neural circuits do not connect for some children
A new study has shown that children with autism who prefer to look at geometric shapes rather than social images have lower levels of...
Breakthrough discovery reveals how memories are coded in the brain
NUS researchers have made a breakthrough in the field of cognitive computational neuroscience, by discovering a key aspect of how the brain encodes short-term...
Brain injuries and PTSD: injuries change how we process fear
A UCLA team of psychologists and neurologists reports that a traumatic brain injury causes changes in a brain region called the amygdala; and the...
Promising steps made towards hope for schizophrenia treatment
Schizophrenia is a severe mental health condition that causes significant disability and affects one in 100 people.
Patients with schizophrenia commonly experience negative symptoms, which...
Excitatory neurons and oestrogen may be the brain food we all need
According to researchers from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, USA, Excitatory neurons and oestrogen in the brain is important to making...
Hyperactive immune system in ageing brain disorders
NIH researchers have found that the body's hyperactive immune system may play a critical role in the damage caused by ageing brain disorders.
In a...
Neuroimaging techniques and dissociative identity disorder treatment
Neuroimaging techniques can distinguish between healthy brains and those with multiple personality disorder - could this lead to dissociative identity disorder treatment?
Machine-learning and neuroimaging...
The ASD illness: understanding autism spectrum disorders
Recent brain imaging study challenges the existing theoretical model of understanding autism spectrum disorders therefore uncovering new findings regarding the ASD illness.
Understanding autism spectrum...
Mobilising mental healthcare
Nessa Childers MEP, co-founder of the Interest Group on Mental Health, Wellbeing and Brain Disorders, discusses the need for more ambitious EU-level action on...
