Tag: Neurology and Neuroscience
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Feinberg ALS Efforts Get Funding Boost
P. Hande Ozdinler, PhD, has been awarded three grants totaling more than $2.5 million. The funds will be used to increase her research efforts into the mechanisms behind amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Study Finds Oxytocin Strengthens Memories of Both Bad and Good Events
While it’s long been known that oxytocin promotes feelings of love, social bonding, and wellbeing, only recently have scientists discovered it’s link to anxiety-producing bad memories.
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New Public Policy Leads to Improved Stroke Care in Chicago
More suspected stroke victims received emergency care and potentially life-saving treatments in Chicago’s stroke centers thanks to a 2011 policy change under the Illinois Primary Stroke Center Act.
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Promising New Alzheimer’s ‘Drug’ Halts Memory Loss
A new class of experimental drug-like small molecules is showing great promise in targeting a brain enzyme to prevent early memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Neon Exposes Hidden ALS Cells, Helps Scientists Study Why They Die
In a new preclinical study, a Northwestern Medicine® scientist has isolated the motor neurons in the brain that die in ALS and, for the first time, dressed them in a green fluorescent jacket. As a result, scientists will now be able to track what goes wrong in these cells to cause their deaths and be…
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Alzheimer’s Drug Could Cause Adverse Side Effects
Alzheimer’s drug may act like bad electrician, messing up wiring in brain and nervous system.
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Study Shows Direct Link Between Diabetes and Circadian Clock in Pancreas
New Role for Ancient Clock The pancreas has its own molecular clock. Now, for the first time, a Northwestern University study has shown this ancient circadian clock regulates the production of insulin. If the clock is faulty, the result is diabetes. The researchers show that insulin-secreting islet cells in the pancreas, called beta-cells, have their[…]
