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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…
2018-03-05 – Today we remember Sir Roger Bannister, esteemed neurologist and remarkable athlete: Sir Roger Bannister, First Athlete to Break 4-Minute Mile, Dies at 88
2018-02-28 – ANA President Dr. David Holtzman's research on the APOE gene was highlighted by the Cure Alzheimer's Fund as one of the exciting projects it funded in 2017. Learn more: Cure Alzheimer's Fund Issued more than $15 Million in Research Grants in 2017
2018-02-21 – A small group of cells in the brain can have a big effect on seizures and memory in a mouse model of epilepsy. According to a new study in Science, loss of mossy cells may contribute to convulsive seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy as well as memory problems often experienced by people with the…
2018-02-20 – Scientists have created a new atlas that maps out the many blood vessels that keep the brain running, along with the blood-brain barrier that keeps dangerous pathogens out. Learn more about the new research in Nature: A molecular atlas of cell types and zonation in the brain vasculature
2018-02-14 – 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…