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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative in April 2018 to accelerate scientific discovery to stem the opioid public health crisis. Join the Association of American Medical Colleges on November 8 at 3:00 PM ET for a webinar featuring NINDS Director Dr. Walter J. Koroshetz, who will discuss the NIH HEAL Initiative's priorities in...
The transmission speed of neurons fluctuates in the brain to achieve an optimal flow of information required for day-to-day activities, according to a National Institutes of Health study. The results, appearing in PNAS, suggest that brain cells called astrocytes alter the transmission speed of neurons by changing the thickness of myelin, an insulation material, and the width of gaps in myelin...
The National Institutes of Health announced funding of more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, an exciting trans-agency effort to arm researchers with revolutionary tools to fundamentally understand the neural circuits that underlie the healthy and diseased brain. Supported by the...
Alzheimer's patients taking diabetes drugs may have fewer signs of dementia in their brains than similar patients not taking the drugs, new research finds.
Specifically, the post-mortem study found that people who'd taken diabetes meds had fewer abnormalities in tiny blood vessels in their brains, and less abnormal gene activity.
"The results of this study are important because...
The 2018 ANA Annual Meeting was attended by reporters from across the country representing general news and trade publications, and the groundbreaking research presented at the Meeting was covered by many more. Below are highlights of the ANA2018 media coverage:
HealthDay: Stroke After Heart Attack: Danger May Persist for Months
HealthDay: Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease...
