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Browsing: Neurology and Neuroscience

Disease Discoveries
Sep 10, 2015

Targeting an Ion Channel to Treat Common Pediatric Brain Tumor

A study co-authored by Northwestern Medicine scientist Rintaro Hashizume, MD, PhD, identified the EAG2 potassium channel as a target for treating medulloblastoma.

Disease Discoveries
Sep 4, 2015

Unexpected Link to ALS and Dementia

Northwestern Medicine scientists have found evidence that a protein that has a genetic link to ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases destroys mitochondria in neurons.

Scientific Advances
Aug 21, 2015

Sorting Proteins for Cell Communication

Northwestern Medicine scientist Jeffrey Savas, PhD, and colleagues identified a receptor that sorts proteins in synapses, a finding that may augment future treatments for multiple neurological diseases and disorders.

Disease Discoveries
Aug 17, 2015

How Traumatic Memories Hide In The Brain, and How To Retrieve Them

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered for the first time the neurotransmitter pathways that allow stressful fear-related memories become consciously inaccessible.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Aug 5, 2015

Searching for Molecules that Slow Parkinson’s Disease Progression

A clinical study led by Northwestern Medicine scientist Tanya Simuni, MD, crossed a promising compound off the list of potential agents that may slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Jul 23, 2015

Music Education Alters Adolescent Brain Development

Music training, introduced as late as high school, may help improve the teenage brain’s responses to sound and sharpen hearing and language skills.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Jul 14, 2015

New Drug Reverses Anticoagulant Effects of Common Blood Thinner

A study showed that an investigational drug, idarucizumab, reverses the anticoagulant effect of dabigatran, a blood thinning drug used for the prevention of stroke. This is the first test of this reversal agent in patients with bleeding or need for emergent surgery.

Scientific Advances
Jun 25, 2015

Redrawing Language Map of the Brain


Studying patients with a rare form of dementia called primary progressive aphasia has given scientists a new understanding of the way the brain comprehends language.

Disease Discoveries
Jun 12, 2015

Gamechanger for Epilepsy

Northwestern Medicine’s Institute for Translational Neuroscience has launched an epilepsy research center, bringing together the academic medical center’s top clinical and research minds in the area of epilepsy.

Education News
Jun 1, 2015

Trainees Broaden Clinical Research Skills

Enrollees in Feinberg’s Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) program developed research projects including a yoga intervention for patients with Parkinson’s disease and a cardiovascular risk assessment for cholesterol guidelines.

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