Tag: Neurology and Neuroscience
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Scientists Find Mechanism That Controls Sleep-Wake Cycle
A recent study sheds new light on how an animal’s biological clock wakes it up in the morning and puts it to sleep at night.
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Increased Activity in Older Brains May Point to New Avenues for Treating Memory Loss
Recordings of neurons in a little-studied part of the brain associated with memory show an unexpected increase in activity in older brains, a finding that may suggest a new target for therapies to combat memory loss.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
