ANA News
2018-11-20 – The NFL is awarding more than $35 million to five groups studying the diagnosis and treatment of brain injury in thousands of former professional football players. The five-year project will include brain scans, blood tests, and annual surveys. It'll also look at potential ways to reduce the risk…
2018-11-20 – Neurosurgeon Dr. Ashesh Mehta is trying eavesdrop on the brain with the help of tiny electrodes implanted on its surface. Mehta is using those microelectrodes to capture the electrical impulses that happen when a person hears in her "mind's ear" what words she intends to say out loud. Then, those…
2018-11-15 – The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research released a Request for Information because they are seeking input on future Blueprint activities and investments that have the potential to make a broad impact in the neuroscience community. Responses are due by November 26, 2018. The Blueprint is…
2018-11-13 – Application Deadline: December 10, 2018 The 2019 session of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development for Academic Scientists will be held March 25-28, 2019 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Rockville, MD (co-located with ASENT 2019 Annual Meeting). This…
2018-11-09 – Is the key to Alzheimer’s disease lurking, overlooked, in the 100,000-plus scientific papers that have been published on this disease over the last century? A Texas businessman who lost family members to dementia thinks so, and on Monday he announced that there’s $4 million waiting for the people…
2018-11-07 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative in April 2018 to accelerate scientific discovery to stem the opioid public health crisis. Join the Association of American Medical Colleges on November 8 at 3:00 PM ET for a webinar featuring…
2018-11-06 – The transmission speed of neurons fluctuates in the brain to achieve an optimal flow of information required for day-to-day activities, according to a National Institutes of Health study. The results, appearing in PNAS, suggest that brain cells called astrocytes alter the transmission speed of…
2018-11-02 – The National Institutes of Health announced funding of more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, an exciting trans-agency effort to arm researchers with revolutionary tools to fundamentally…
2018-11-01 – Alzheimer's patients taking diabetes drugs may have fewer signs of dementia in their brains than similar patients not taking the drugs, new research finds. Specifically, the post-mortem study found that people who'd taken diabetes meds had fewer abnormalities in tiny blood vessels in their brains,…
2018-10-31 – The 2018 ANA Annual Meeting was attended by reporters from across the country representing general news and trade publications, and the groundbreaking research presented at the Meeting was covered by many more. Below are highlights of the ANA2018 media coverage: HealthDay: Stroke After Heart Attack…