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2018-06-13 – A visit to a facility in Guangdong province, where researchers are tinkering with monkey brains in order to understand the most severe forms of autism. Learn more in The Atlantic: China Is Genetically Engineering Monkeys With Brain Disorders
2018-06-11 – Applications are now available for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) 2019-20 Faculty Innovation in Education Award and the 2019-20 Research Award. Learn more: www.abpn.com
2018-06-06 – Storing, managing, standardizing and publishing the vast amounts of data produced by biomedical research is a critical mission for the National Institutes of Health. In support of this effort, NIH released its first Strategic Plan for Data Science that provides a roadmap for modernizing the NIH-…
2018-06-05 – For neurosurgeons, finding your way around your brain is no easy task, since every brain is slightly different. And in brain surgery, mere millimeters can measure the difference between a successful procedure and mind-altering failure. That’s why Dr. Alexandra Golby and her team at Brigham and…
2018-05-31 – Deep brain stimulation has been used to treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms for 25 years, but limitations have led researchers to look for ways to improve the technique. A new study describes the first fully implanted DBS system that uses feedback from the brain itself to fine-tune its signaling.…
2018-05-30 – New research suggests many patients with mild traumatic brain injuries aren’t getting the follow-up care they might need. Researchers tracked 831 patients treated for mild traumatic brain injury in 11 trauma center ERs between 2014 and 2016. Just 42 percent said they received information about TBI…
2018-05-25 – Experts from government, academia, industry, and non-profit organizations put forward recommendations that provide a roadmap for an integrated, multidisciplinary research agenda necessary to inform priorities for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The recommendations are designed to guide…
2018-05-22 – For the past two years, Sarah Benoit has been getting around with the help of a walker, waiting for a medicine that’s out of reach. Benoit, a former congressional aide, has ALS, a fatal neurological disease that gradually causes muscle weakness and paralysis. As it progresses, she struggles to…
2018-05-21 – The Kennedy Krieger Institute announced the appointment of Bradley (Brad) L. Schlaggar, M.D., Ph.D., as the organization's next president and CEO. Schlaggar, an ANA member, will assume this position this summer, continuing the organization's longstanding mission of improving the lives of children…
2018-05-18 – Prion diseases are slow degenerative brain diseases that occur in people and various other mammals. No vaccines or treatments are available, and these diseases are almost always fatal. Scientists have found little evidence of a protective immune response to prion infections. Further, microglia —…