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New data-driven machine learning method effectively flags risk for post-stroke dangers
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A team of experts in neurocritical care, engineering, and informatics, with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have devised a new way to detect which stroke patients may be at risk of a serious adverse event following a ruptured brain aneurysm. This new, data-driven machine learning model, involves an algorithm for computers to combine results from various noninvasive tests to predict a secondary event.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Targeting 'hidden pocket' for treatment of stroke and seizure
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) By closely examining a special neuron receptor that is involved in memory, learning, and much more, researchers have identified a hidden molecular 'pocket.' By creating chemical compounds that affect this pocket only in very specific circumstances, they are one step closer to creating ideal treatments for stroke and seizures.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 18, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

NIH launches collaborative effort to find biomarkers for Parkinson's
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) The National Institutes of Health has launched a new initiative to help researchers investigate biomarkers for Parkinson's disease, and to help patients learn about and participate in such studies. So far, the NINDS Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers Program has funded nine research teams taking a variety of unique approaches to discover new biomarkers. To support collaboration across these projects and others, the PDBP is introducing a new online platform for investigators to share their data.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 15, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

With the right rehabilitation, paralyzed rats learn to grip again
(University of Zurich) After a large stroke, motor skills barely improve, even with rehabilitation. An experiment conducted on rats demonstrates that a course of therapy combining the stimulation of nerve fiber growth with drugs and motor training can be successful. The key, however, is the correct sequence: Paralyzed animals only make an almost complete recovery if the training is delayed until after the growth promoting drugs have been administered, as researchers from the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the University of Heidelberg reveal.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 12, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Scientists plug into a learning brain
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Scientists explored the brain's capacity to learn and found learning is easier when it only requires nerve cells to rearrange existing patterns of activity than when the nerve cells have to generate new patterns.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 27, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Scientists map memorable tunes in the rat brain
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Lights, sound, action: we are constantly learning how to incorporate outside sensations into our reactions in specific situations. In a new study, brain scientists have mapped changes in communication between nerve cells as rats learned to make specific decisions in response to particular sounds. The team then used this map to accurately predict the rats' reactions. These results add to our understanding of how the brain processes sensations and forms memories to inform behavior.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Scripps experts present at 2015 TCT scientific symposium
(Scripps Health) From new methods for preventing stroke, to non-surgical treatment of heart valve defects and learning from complicated cases, Scripps Health cardiology experts will share leading edge techniques for improving heart care during the 27th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 9, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

NIH hosts BRAIN Initiative scientists
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) The NIH will host a meeting of nearly 400 BRAIN Initiative scientists and officials from the NIH, the National Science Foundation, DARPA, IARPA, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It will be a unique opportunity to meet the scientists, learn about their promising results and discuss the BRAIN Initiative, a large-scale presidential effort to develop new tools and technologies to understand the healthy and diseased brain.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 30, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Eye cells may use math to detect motion
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In a study of mice, National Institutes of Health scientists showed how one type of neuron in the eye may distinguish moving objects. The study suggests that the NMDA receptor, a protein normally associated with learning and memory, may help neurons in the eye and the brain relay that information.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

New UCI center to advance the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare
(University of California - Irvine) UCI artificial intelligence center will develop, apply deep learning neural networks to diagnostics, disease prediction and therapy planning. Initial research includes developing a system with 97%+ accuracy in near real-time detection of brain bleeds on NCCT. System to be implemented in UCI's comprehensive stroke program.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest. The results highlight the critically important role rest may play in learning.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Brain stimulation enhances visual learning speed and efficiency
(University of Rochester) Brain stimulation, when coupled with visual training therapy, has dramatic effects on increasing learning speed and retention in both healthy adults and patients who have experienced vision loss due to stroke or other brain injury.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

NIH awards $4.7m to Kennedy Krieger Institute researcher for movement learning study
(PROFILES, Inc.) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded Amy Bastian, Ph.D., PT, chief science officer and director of the Motion Analysis Lab at Kennedy Krieger Institute, with an eight-year, $4.7 million National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Research Program Award (N35) to support a study examining movement learning mechanisms and how this process is affected by brain damage.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped out the brain activity that flows when we learn a new skill, such as playing a new song on the piano, and discovered why taking short breaks from practice is a key to learning.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news