ANA News
2017-10-26 – Congratulations to the following ANA members who have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Daniel H. Lowenstein, M.D. Read more here. Scott L. Pomeroy, MD, PhD. Read more here. Allan I. Levey, MD, PhD. Read more here. Samuel F. Berkovic, M.D. Read more here.
2017-10-16 – Follow Clinical Neurology News for ongoing coverage of the ANA Annual Meeting.
2017-10-11 – Take a look at a recent Scientific American article, entitled: Could the “Alzheimer’s Gene” Finally Become a Drug Target? which features research conducted by ANA's President-Elect, Dr. David Holtzman.
2017-10-03 – By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers at the National Institutes of Health saw the first, long-sought evidence that our brains may drain some waste out through lymphatic vessels, the body’s sewer system. The results further suggest the vessels could act as a pipeline between the…
2017-09-25 – The 2018 offering of Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development for Academic Scientists will be held Wednesday, March 7 to Saturday, March 10 at the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center, Rockville, Maryland. Learn more here.
2017-09-25 – Researchers led by Dr. Holtzman have identified that the presence of ApoE4 exacerbates the brain damage caused by toxic tangles of a different Alzheimer’s-associated protein: tau. In the absence of ApoE, tau tangles did very little harm to brain cells. Read more about these findings here.
2017-09-12 – A recent study led by ANA member, Sergio Baranzini, analyzed the microbiomes of 71 MS patients and 71 healthy people. Read more about this, and another similar study, here.
2017-09-01 – Scientists have tried to craft drugs that speed the elimination of the protein, α-synuclein, or prevent it from clumping. Neurologist and genomicist Clemens Scherzer of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues decided to try a different strategy. “We wanted to find a drug that could turn…
2017-08-28 – ANA member, Rajesh Pahwa, has published new research on the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. You can reach more about this research here.
2017-05-09 – The ANA recognizes that our goal to reduce the high burden of neurological disease through research, education, clinical care, and advocacy is shared globally. The American Neurological Association International Outreach Committee (ANA IOC) is pleased to announce the first international outreach…