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Novel Duchenne therapy shows promise – US trial
Recently released data from a phase 1/2 clinical trial show that combination therapy led to significant dystrophin expression and functional improvement in patients with...
Pacemaker for Parkinson’s gives new hope – US study
A recent small study in the US represents the strides being made in using brain implants and artificial intelligence to personalise treatment for neurological...
Coma patients might have some awareness – US study
When people suffer severe brain damage – from vehicle accidents, for example, or falls or aneurysms – they may slip into a coma for...
Musk’s second patient gets brain implant chip
Just six months after the first implant, Elon Musk’s Neuralink has successfully implanted a chip into a second paralysed patient’s brain, the procedure having...
Scientists find proof of Reelin protein’s anti-Alzheimer value
A key protein that helps assemble the brain early in life also appears to protect it from Alzheimer’s and other diseases of ageing, although...
EMA rejects US-approved Alzheimer’s drug
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has rejected a licence for the Alzheimer’s treatment lecanemab (Leqembi), saying the benefits did not counterbalance the risk of serious side...
Covid may trigger brain changes, even dementia – US review
While Covid-19 no longer poses the urgent public-health threat it once did, recent research points to a good reason to keep the virus in...
Prosthesis driven by nervous system improves gait – US study
Using a new surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, researchers were able to restore a natural walking gait in people with amputations below the knee,...
Anxiety in older men may be tied to higher Parkinson’s risk
People over 50 with anxiety may be up to twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as their peers without anxiety, and are more...
Device fitted in UK boy’s skull slashes seizures
A British boy with severe epilepsy has become the world’s first patient to trial a new device that has reduced his daytime seizures by...
African ancestry genes may link to black Americans’ brain disorder risk – US study
The reasons for black Americans having a higher risk of some neurological disorders have always been unclear, but after examining the post-mortem brains of...
Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug a step closer to final FDA nod
A committee of independent advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously last week that the benefits outweigh the risks of the...
‘Internet addiction’ and neurological changes in teens – systematic review
A study in in PLOS Mental Health suggesting that in teens with “internet addiction”, there is a disruption of the signalling between brain regions important...
Positive effect of intensive lifestyle changes on Alzheimer’s – small US trial
Intensive lifestyle changes improved cognitive outcomes and slowed disease progression in a phase II trial of early Alzheimer’s, with the patients’ scores in cognition and...
Dopamine may play a role in autism disorders – Chinese study
Scientists believe they have made a breakthrough in the understanding of the neuroscience behind autism spectrum disorders, with their findings focusing on the chemical...
Life support withdrawal may have been premature in some cases, scientists find
Around 40% of people with brain injuries whose life support had been turned off, may have survived or at least made a partial recovery,...
Can consuming olive oil help reduce dementia?
Harvard University researchers recently suggested that adding just a spoonful of olive oil to your diet every day not only provides powerful health benefits...
Asthma drug warning stepped up after 500 children react
Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says more prominent warnings would be added to the information provided on boxes of the asthma...
Perinatal HIV transmission tied to cognitive deficits – US meta-analysis
A detailed analysis of 35 studies suggests that perinatal transmission of HIV to newborns may be associated with serious cognitive deficits as children grow...
Autism and ADHD can co-exist and cases are growing, says expert
A British expert on the subject is spreading the awareness of what was once an unbelievable message: that both autism and ADHD can co-exist...
US lawmaker probes FDA inspection of Musk’s Neuralink
The US Food & Drug Administration has been questioned on why it did not inspect Elon Musk’s Neuralink before allowing the brain implant company...
Test can spot MND signs before symptoms – Scottish study
A test that detects signs of motor neurone disease (MND) before symptoms appear has been hailed a “game changer” by scientists developing it, who...
How rare ‘aphantasia’ can affect everyday life
Most people are able to picture images in their heads – the look of an apple, the appearance of their kitchen or their child’s...
Patients who defied Alzheimer's gene may help with therapies
Scientists believe there may be a "pathway for prevention and cure" after a Columbian man, who died in 2019, became only the second patient...
Gaming improves children’s cognitive performance – US study
A recent study suggests that video gaming could be associated with improved cognitive abilities involving response inhibition and working memory, and with alterations in...
Voice control devices could hinder children’s social and emotional development – experts
Experts in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare say voice control smart devices, like Alexa, Siri and Google Home, might hinder...
Nervous system retraining effective in treating chronic back pain – randomised trial
There’s finally hope for people suffering from chronic back pain, shows a randomised control trial of treatment focused on retraining how the back and...
Psilocybin rewires brain for people with depression – UCSF-University College London
Psilocybin fosters greater connections between different regions of the brain in depressed people, freeing them up from long-held patterns of rumination and excessive self-focus,...
Our lives might really flash before our eyes when we die – Vancouver brain study
A study is based on a rare recording of a dying brain, which occurred accidentally at a Canadian hospital, suggests that there may be...
High coffee use associated with slower cognitive decline — 10-year biomarker analysis
There was an association between higher coffee consumption and lower risk of transitioning to the mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease, found a 10-year...
Ultrasound as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's — Australian animal study
Ultrasound can overcome some of the detrimental effects of ageing and dementia without the need to cross the blood-brain barrier, Queensland Brain Institute researchers have found...
Breastfeeding link to higher neurocognitive testing scores in offspring
Research finds that children who were breastfed scored higher on neurocognitive tests. Researchers in the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of...
Designer cytokine allows paralysed mice to walk again
Using gene therapy, a research team has succeeded for the first time in getting mice to walk again after a complete cross-sectional injury, according...
UK scientist with MND converts himself into a cyborg
A 61-year-old British scientist suffering from a life-threatening muscle wasting disease – motor neurone disease (MND) – has managed to convert himself fully into...
Epilepsy: Seizures not forecastable as expected
Epileptic seizures can probably not be predicted by changes in brain wave patterns that were previously assumed to be characteristic precursors. This is the...
Fumigation neurotoxin may be cause of Cuban 'sonic attacks'
Fumigation against mosquitoes in Cuba and not “sonic attacks” may have caused some 40 US and Canadian diplomats and family members in Havana to...
Electrical current to part of cortex improves memory retrieval
A study by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) provides evidence that using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to a specific area of the...
Scientists restore some functions of pig brain hours after death
Circulation and cellular activity were restored in a pig's brain four hours after its death, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about the timing...
Sleep apnoea link to memory loss and depression risk
People with sleep apnoea struggle to remember details of memories from their own lives, potentially making them vulnerable to depression, a small Australian study...
Even minor changes in nightly sleep impact on next-day pain burden
Even very subtle changes in nightly sleep have a clear impact on the next-day pain burden, amplifying the pain-sensing regions in the brain and...