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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
New research from Italy that is based on studies in mice found that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) may be linked to an imbalance in the brain signalling chemical serontonin that regulates heartbeat and breathing, and if shown to be true of humans could point to a way to identify babies at risk of SIDS.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A new dissertation in education research from Linkoping University in Sweden shows that there is a neurobiological explanation for how experience-based knowledge is created. “Can’t ’splain sump’n to somebody who doesn’t understand it”; “my legs think faster than I do” (Swedish alpine skiing champion Ingemar Stenmark). “Skate where the puck´s going, not where it´s been” (Wayne Gretsky).
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional harm, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, known as hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, is one of the most common causes of death and long-term neurological damage among infants and children. This can happen during birth trauma, near drowning and other crises.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
Proteins widely believed to protect against aging can actually cause oxidative damage in mammalian brain cells, according to a new report in the July Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. The findings suggest that the proteins can have both proaging and protective functions, depending on the circumstances, the researchers said. ” Sirtuins are very important proteins,” said Valter Longo of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
The John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Health Center announced that it has received a grant from the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment to study pituitary hormonal failure (hypopituitarism) in retired football players.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
Interventional Spine, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Company’s investigational device exemption (IDE) application for its PercuDyn System for the treatment of degenerative disc disease (DDD). This approval is conditional upon the Company providing some additional information to the FDA. Walter A. Cuevas, Interventional Spine’s CEO, observed, “We are pleased by FDA’s action.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
What began as a college course project to design therapeutic toys has resulted in the first toys of their kind, designed as therapy for children with cerebral palsy (CP). CP is a disorder that affects the development of the brain and the motor system, often causing muscle weakness and paralysis. Physical and occupational therapy have been shown to be effective treatments in improving function, however, Karen Kerman, M.D.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
Clinician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are suggesting an immediate and important change to guidelines used in the care of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The researchers say that following TBI, patients should be given nutritional supplementation through a gastric feeding tube as soon as possible, which they say can improve their chances of survival by as much as four-fold.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
Compact, bedside brain-activity monitors detected most seizures in at-risk infants, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed. That means the compact units could assist clinicians in monitoring for electrical seizures until confirmation with conventional EEG (electroencephalography), the researchers assert in an article published in the June issue of Pediatrics.
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Jul 4th 2008Drug InformationNeurology / Neuroscience
In a follow-up to research showing that psilocybin, a substance contained in “sacred mushrooms,” produces substantial spiritual effects, a Johns Hopkins team reports that those beneficial effects appear to last more than a year.
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