ANA News
2018-04-06 – ANA Past President Dr. Robert Brown Jr. comments on the potential of a new ALS treatment: Trials for potential ALS treatment spark cautious hope
2018-04-05 – A new study in primates raises the possibility that children infected with the Zika virus during infancy could be at risk of experiencing brain damage. Zika is known to destroy developing brain tissue when it infects a fetus in the womb. Scientists know less about how the virus might affect the…
2018-03-29 – It’s been hypothesized that microglia help prune synapses as the brain develops. Researchers found that in mouse brains, that may not be the case. Learn more: Microglia remodel synapses by presynaptic trogocytosis and spine head filopodia induction
2018-03-27 – New findings from ANA President David Holtzman, MD could lead to a way to halt the brain damage triggered by amyloid plaques while Alzheimer's is still in its early stages, perhaps before symptoms appear. The research is available in the March 26 Journal of Clinical Investigation. “Many people…
2018-03-26 – How does your brain change with age? Frances Jensen, MD, FACP, director on the ANA's board, professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-director of the Penn Medicine Translational Neuroscience Center at the Perelman School of Medicine, explains in a…
2018-03-23 – It's a win! The president, with broad bipartisan support, signed into law the omnibus spending bill to fund federal discretionary spending programs through FY 2018, including a $3 billion increase for NIH. Learn more: Trump signs spending bill, blasts Congress
2018-03-23 – A brain scanner now used to guide treatment of patients with epilepsy and other neurological disorders is bulky and challenging to use on fidgety young children — but researchers hope it might soon be replaced by a new machine that’s not much bigger than a bike helmet. Scientists at University…
2018-03-21 – The National Institutes of Health released to the scientific community an unparalleled dataset from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. To date, more than 7,500 youth and their families have been recruited for the study, well over half the participant goal. Approximately 30…
2018-03-15 – To understand the link between aging and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, scientists from the National Institutes of Health compared the genetic clocks that tick during the lives of normal and mutant flies. They found that altering the activity of a gene called Cdk5 appeared…
2018-03-08 – Circuits in the brain act as an internal clock to tell us it is time to sleep and to control how long we then stay asleep. A new study in flies suggests a part of that clock constantly monitors changes in external temperature and integrates that information into the neural network controlling sleep…