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Dr. Li-Ru Zhao receives 2017 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award from ASNTR
(Cell Transplantation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair) Dr. Li-Ru Zhao received the 2017 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award at the 24th annual meeting of the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair (ASNTR) for her contributions to stroke, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer's disease research.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 1, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Head injuries can alter hundreds of genes and lead to serious brain diseases
(University of California - Los Angeles) Head injuries can adversely affect hundreds of genes in the brain that put people at high risk for diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, ADHD, autism, depression and schizophrenia, UCLA life scientists report. The researchers have identified for the first time potential master genes which they believe control hundreds of other genes that are linked to many neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 6, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

2016 Neuro Film Festival winners announced
(American Academy of Neurology) The American Academy of Neurology is pleased to announce the winning entries to the 2016 Neuro Film Festival. The Neuro Film Festival is an annual contest to help raise awareness about why more research is needed to cure brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and others.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 8, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Cerebrovascular disease linked to Alzheimer's
(Rush University Medical Center) While strokes are known to increase risk for dementia, much less is known about diseases of large and small blood vessels in the brain, separate from stroke, and how they relate to dementia. Diseased blood vessels in the brain itself, which commonly is found in elderly people, may contribute more significantly to Alzheimer's disease dementia than was previously believed, according to new study results published in June in The Lancet Neurology, a British medical journal.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 1, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Uncovering partners in crime: Stroke and Alzheimer's disease
(Université de Genève) New EU-funded project CoSTREAM targets the common mechanisms and pathways of stroke, Alzheimer's disease to improve disease prevention and treatment, by combining clinical, genetic, epidemiologic, metabolic and radiologic research to develop an organ-on-a-chip in vitro model for the blood-brain connection that will revolutionize drug-development.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

NINDS hosts 2016 Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias Summit
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) March 29-30, 2016, the NIH will host a summit of researchers, scientists and clinicians to discuss the advances and research priorities in the field of Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (ADRDs), in particular updating what progress has been made since the first summit held in May 2013.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

New findings on 'key players' in brain inflammation
(Lund University) Inflammatory processes occur in the brain in conjunction with stroke and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Researchers from Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, in close cooperation with a group led by Professor José L. Venero at the University of Seville, have presented new findings about some of the 'key players' in inflammation. In the long term, these findings could lead to new treatments.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Dementia risk quadrupled in people with mild cognitive impairment
(IOS Press) In a long-term, large-scale population-based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment had a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease compared to cognitively healthy individuals. Several risk factors including older age, positive APOE-ɛ4 status, low total cholesterol levels, and stroke, as well as specific MRI findings were associated with an increased risk of developing mild cognitive impairment.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 6, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Scientists catch brain damage in the act
(University of British Columbia) Scientists have uncovered how inflammation and lack of oxygen conspire to cause brain damage in conditions such as stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Scientists to study novel mechanisms of epileptic seizures to identify targets for therapy
(University of California - Riverside) UC Riverside's Todd Fiacco and Devin Binder will study the causes of neuronal hyperexcitability with the goal of developing more effective treatments for brain disorders. They share a five-year National Institutes of Health grant totaling more than $1.7 million awarded to them. Besides improving our understanding of how brain cells communicate with each other, the research has the potential to lead to treatments for brain disorders and diseases such as epilepsy, stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Chemical reaction keeps stroke-damaged brain from repairing itself
(Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute) Nitric oxide, a gaseous molecule produced in the brain, can damage neurons. When the brain produces too much nitric oxide, it contributes to the severity and progression of stroke and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute recently discovered that nitric oxide not only damages neurons, it also shuts down the brain's repair mechanisms. Their study was published Feb. 4 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 4, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

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