Feature Channels: Neuro

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Here are some of the latest articles we've posted in the Behavioral Science channel.

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In honor of their notable contributions to the field of cancer research, Juan Fueyo, M.D., and Victor Prieto, M.D., Ph.D., from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Being named an AAAS Fellow is among the highest honors in the scientific research community.

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Eight faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 564 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

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Case Western Reserve University and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have signed an exclusive license agreement to advance and commercialize a therapeutic approach discovered by university medical researchers to treat Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD).

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A new study shows that the updated Brain Injury Guidelines (uBIG) can reduce the unnecessary costs and burden associated with transferring patients with complicated mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). In a retrospective study of patients receiving care at level I trauma centers in Canada, at least 65% of patients categorized as having the mildest form of complicated mild TBI (uBIG-1) could be safely treated at their local hospital.

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A cost analysis of the controversial new Alzheimer’s disease drug aducanumab shows that ancillary care services account for nearly 20% of total Medicare costs related to the drug, or $6,564 per patient per year.

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Women ages 35 years and younger were 44% more likely to have an ischemic stroke (caused by blocked blood vessels in the brain) than their male counterparts, according to a new review of more than a dozen international studies on sex differences in stroke occurrence, published today in a Go Red for Women® 2022 spotlight issue of Stroke, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.

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Researchers are studying whether a drug already approved to treat neurodegenerative diseases can be repurposed to help trauma surgeons determine whether nerves are severed or non-severed in peripheral nerve injuries.

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New pose estimation software has the potential to help neurologists and their patients capture important clinical data using simple tools such as smartphones and tablets, according to a study by Johns Hopkins Medicine...

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People who need to drink relatively high amounts of alcohol before feeling its effects, a genetically influenced risk factor for future heavy drinking and alcohol problems, may have differences in brain connectivity that impair their ability to interpret facial expressions and recognize their own intoxication, a new study suggests. The paper, in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, is believed to be the first to demonstrate differences in brain connectivity between people with low and high responses to alcohol. Varying levels of responses to alcohol — for example, how many drinks a person consumes before feeling intoxicated — are known to be related to neurobiological processing. Low responders, who drink more alcohol before feeling affected by it, are at greater risk of alcohol use disorder (AUD) than high responders, who feel the effects of fewer drinks. Scientists using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are exploring the possibility that low responders are less a

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Researchers in a multi-institution study led by UCLA Health call for more research as well as customized treatments, education and support to empower women living with Parkinson’s disease to address their unmet medical needs.

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For more than a century, scientists have known that while the commands that initiate movement come from the brain, the neurons that control locomotion once movement is underway reside within the spinal cord.

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Pilot project aims to reduce the need for two hospitalizations for patients in select clinical scenarios. The Division of Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine and the Division of Neurology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles recently began piloting a new procedure that combines an overnight polysomnogram (PSG) sleep study with a full 16-channel electroencephalogram (EEG).

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Researchers have determined the optimal number of intervention sessions needed to prevent cognitive decline in people at risk.

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Despite a year of unparalleled challenges, including a pandemic, travel restrictions and redirected funding, Arizona State University continues to grow its research enterprise and advance new discoveries and solutions.