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Dementia and guns: When should doctors broach the topic?

Some patients refuse to answer. Many doctors don’t ask. As the number of Americans with dementia rises, health professionals are grappling with when and how to pose the question: “Do you have guns at home?”

12 Oct 2018

NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to build AI infrastructure for improving patient care

King's College London was today announced as the first partner to adopt the NVIDIA DGX-2 and NVIDIA Clara platform.

11 Oct 2018

Researchers design modeling system to infer relationships between genes, drugs, and their environment

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Washington has designed a modeling system that integrates genomic and temporal information to infer causal relationships between genes, drugs, and their environment, allowing for a more accurate prediction of their interactions over time.

11 Oct 2018

Columbia scientist and collaborators receive $11.3 million to find new targets against brain disease

Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD, a Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, together with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Boston Children's Hospital, has been awarded $11.3 million to map the three-dimensional structures of protein tangles that accumulate in the human brain.

11 Oct 2018

Pioneering software system hopes to make epilepsy surgery safer and easier

A team of researchers, clinicians and engineers from UCLH, UCL, King's College London and the Epilepsy Society have developed a world-leading software system called EpiNav, which stands for epilepsy navigation, and their work is being featured on tonight's episode of the BBC's Trust Me I'm a Doctor.

10 Oct 2018

Seizures start with a hush: A spike in inhibition

Some patients describe epileptic seizures like an earthquake from within, starting slow and growing without their control. To a brain researcher, seizures are an electrical firestorm of neuronal activation in the brain.

10 Oct 2018

Study: Mastectomy does not completely eliminate need for future breast imaging

The proportion of breast cancer patients who are eligible for breast conservation therapy, yet opt for mastectomy, is increasing, for reasons that include the desire to eliminate future screening and/or biopsy of the remaining breast tissue.

9 Oct 2018

Study links scoliosis to essential dietary mineral

Nobody knows why some children's backs start to curve to one side just as they hit puberty. Most children diagnosed with scoliosis, or curvature of the spine, have no known risk factors.

9 Oct 2018

Researchers identify neurons essential for normal sleep

Two decades ago, Clifford B. Saper, MD/PhD, Chairman of the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and colleagues discovered a set of nerve cells they thought might be the switch that turns the brain off, allowing it to sleep.

8 Oct 2018

T-CALM Phase 2 clinical study results offer hope for essential tremor patients

Cavion, Inc., a leading clinical stage biotechnology company committed to developing novel therapeutics for people with neurological diseases, today announced promising results of the T-CALM Phase 2 clinical trial of its first-in-class T-type calcium channel modulator CX-8998 in essential tremor.

7 Oct 2018

Loyola Medicine neurologist honored for showing exceptional support to Neurocritical Care Society

Loyola Medicine neurologist Michael Schneck, MD, is a 2018 recipient of a Presidential Citation from the Neurocritical Care Society in recognition of his extraordinary efforts on behalf of the society.

7 Oct 2018

Dementia prevention trial participants are motivated by altruism, study suggests

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with collaborators across the country, report that people who participate in dementia prevention trials are primarily motivated by altruism and pleased to help.

6 Oct 2018

Study: Short bouts of sleep help us to process information not consciously perceived

The age-old adage "I'll sleep on it" has proven to be scientifically sound advice, according to a new study which measured changes in people's brain activity and responses before and after a nap.

4 Oct 2018

Women with epilepsy have five times greater risk of dying during pregnancy

The risk of dying during pregnancy is negligible for the average Danish woman, but if the woman in question has epilepsy, the probability must be multiplied by five. This is the central result presented in a comprehensive epidemiological study that researchers from Health, Aarhus University, are behind.

3 Oct 2018

New method based on artificial intelligence may help predict epilepsy outcomes

Medical University of South Carolina neurologists have developed a new method based on artificial intelligence that may eventually help both patients and doctors weigh the pros and cons of using brain surgery to treat debilitating seizures caused by epilepsy.

3 Oct 2018

Neuroscientists use brain lesion network mapping to identify anatomical origins of free will

Long the domain of philosophy and religion, free will has also been defined by scientists as a combination of two cognitive processes - the desire to act (or volition) and the sense of responsibility for our actions (or agency.)

3 Oct 2018

Half of all women are at risk of a stroke, dementia or Parkinson’s disease says study

A new study has revealed that half of all women and a third of all men are at risk of developing degenerative dementia, Parkinson’s disease or stroke.

2 Oct 2018

Excessive use of erectile-dysfunction medication could lead to long-term vision problems

In a first-of-its-kind study, Mount Sinai researchers have shown that color vision problems caused by retinal damage on a cellular level can result from a high dose of sildenafil citrate, the popular erectile-dysfunction medication sold under the brand name Viagra.

1 Oct 2018

Phase 3 ECHELON-2 clinical trial evaluating ADCETRIS plus CHP meets primary endpoint

Seattle Genetics, Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced today that the phase 3 ECHELON-2 clinical trial met its primary endpoint.

1 Oct 2018

TEAD1 protein appears to be important regulator of tumor migration in glioblastoma

A specific protein called TEAD1 is an important regulator of tumor migration in glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in adults, and deactivating this protein may stop tumor cells from migrating away from the main tumor mass, according to research conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published October 1 in the journal Nature Communications.

1 Oct 2018

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Latest Neurology News and Research

Dementia and guns: When should doctors broach the topic?

NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to build AI infrastructure for improving patient care

Researchers design modeling system to infer relationships between genes, drugs, and their environment

Columbia scientist and collaborators receive $11.3 million to find new targets against brain disease

Pioneering software system hopes to make epilepsy surgery safer and easier

Seizures start with a hush: A spike in inhibition

Study: Mastectomy does not completely eliminate need for future breast imaging

Study links scoliosis to essential dietary mineral

Researchers identify neurons essential for normal sleep

T-CALM Phase 2 clinical study results offer hope for essential tremor patients

Loyola Medicine neurologist honored for showing exceptional support to Neurocritical Care Society

Dementia prevention trial participants are motivated by altruism, study suggests

Study: Short bouts of sleep help us to process information not consciously perceived

Women with epilepsy have five times greater risk of dying during pregnancy

New method based on artificial intelligence may help predict epilepsy outcomes

Neuroscientists use brain lesion network mapping to identify anatomical origins of free will

Half of all women are at risk of a stroke, dementia or Parkinson’s disease says study

Excessive use of erectile-dysfunction medication could lead to long-term vision problems

Phase 3 ECHELON-2 clinical trial evaluating ADCETRIS plus CHP meets primary endpoint

TEAD1 protein appears to be important regulator of tumor migration in glioblastoma

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