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2018-08-24 – On August 23, the Senate passed the Health & Human Services spending bill with a $2 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health, providing the support needed to advance essential biomedical research. Learn more: Senate Passes HHS Spending Bill w/ $2 Billion Increase for NIH
2018-08-22 – Scientists have developed “organs on a chip” as miniature models of tissue to test how cells interact and respond to different drugs and experiments. Now, researchers report they’ve taken the approach one step further, crafting a chip model of the blood-brain barrier. Learn more: A linked organ-on-…
2018-08-20 – A new JAMA study suggests that traumatic brain injury is linked to an increased risk of suicide, following on past research that has pointed to a connection between the two. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 35,000 deaths by suicide in Denmark over 35 years. Roughly 10 percent of people had…
2018-08-17 – Engineers have created a new kind of stretchy electronic patch that could one day be used to wirelessly monitor everything from breathing to brain and heart activity. The scientists stacked four layers of flexible circuit boards, with tiny connections between each, and filled them with conductive…
2018-08-16 – The 10-year Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is now nearing the halfway point, transitioning from its first stage of developing tools for research to its second stage of using those tools to "make fundamental discoveries about how brain circuits work…
2018-08-14 – In a lofty quest to map human memories, a scientist journeys deep into the mind of a worm. Read more from STAT.
2018-08-09 – Lowering your blood pressure could reduce Alzheimer’s risk, according to new research. Learn more from TIME.
2018-08-06 – ANA member and medical director of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Epilepsy Monitoring Unit Dr. Kathryn Davis discusses misdiagnosis and hallucinations with epilepsy for CNN.com. Learn more: Amid seizures, man sketched his 'beautiful' hallucinations
2018-08-06 – New from STAT: A story about a decades-long hunt in Appalachia to understand the genetic roots of ALS, a devastating neuromuscular disease that causes progressive paralysis. One corner of the region runs thicker with a particular form of inherited ALS than almost anywhere else, and neurologist…
2018-08-02 – Japanese scientists said they will start clinical trials next month on a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, transplanting “reprogrammed” stem cells into brains, seeking a breakthrough in treating the neurodegenerative disorder. Learn more: Japan scientists to use 'reprogrammed' stem cells to fight…