All-Stars provide assist
Daily Pilot Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:08 PM PDT
NEWPORT BEACH â€" Orange County’s finest seniors gathered on Newport Harbor High’s volleyball court Tuesday to raise money for a 5-year-old battling brain cancer. |
Enzyme fights mutated protein in inherited Parkinson's disease
EurekAlert! Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:29 PM PDT
( UT Southwestern Medical Center ) An enzyme that naturally occurs in the brain helps destroy the mutated protein that is the most common cause of inherited Parkinson's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. |
Home renovations for injured veteran
Colorado Springs Gazette Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:13 PM PDT
A veteran who received a traumatic brain injury while in Iraq will receive free home renovations this weekend. Nick Lewis was awarded a Purple Heart after an explosion in Iraq. |
Kin consider donating boy’s organs
Boston Globe Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:10 PM PDT
WORCESTER - The family of 7-year-old Nathaniel Turner remained in seclusion yesterday, asking for privacy as they consulted with hospital doctors about when to remove life support for the boy who has already been deemed brain dead after an alleged brutal beating by his father on Father’s Day. |
KU professor outlines healthy lifestyle changes that can have positive effects on the brain
The Kansas City Star Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:17 PM PDT
See if you recognize this person: Sleep-deprived. Stuck indoors most of the day. Drives everywhere, even to destinations just a few blocks away. Spends more time with relative strangers than with relatives and loved ones. Stephen S. Ilardi does. The University of Kansas clinical psychologist has treated hundreds of such patients for depression. |
Team Terrific turns tragedy into inspiration
Comox Valley Record Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:31 PM PDT
Dean Holm, Dave Hanson, Peggy Street, Allen Revah, Carrie Ann Beech, Helen Tomaszewski and Dan Huntley have all survived brain injuries that have changed their lives in many ways. |
Brain plasticity: Changes and resets in homeostasis
PhysOrg Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:30 PM PDT
In an article published in the June 25th edition of the journal Neuron, researchers at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, have found that synaptic plasticity, long implicated as a device for 'change' in the brain, may also be essential for stability. |
Therapeutic Delivery Of A Gene To Dysfunctional Nerves
Science Daily Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:14 PM PDT
In many sensory neuronopathies, painful conditions affecting sensory nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, the affected nerves are in a region known as the DRG. These conditions are difficult to treat. However, researchers have now developed an approach to target therapeutic genes to DRG nerves, and used it to reduce sensory nerve dysfunction in a mouse model of Sandhoff disease, an ... |
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