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New Device Removes Stroke-causing Blood Clots Better Than Standard Treatment
An experimental device for removing blood clots in stroke patients dramatically outperformed the standard mechanical treatment, according to research presented by UCLA Stroke Center director Dr. Jeffrey L. Saver at the American Stroke Association’s...
Hearing Metaphors Activates Brain Regions Involved in Sensory Experience
When a friend tells you she had a rough day, do you feel sandpaper under your fingers? The brain may be replaying sensory experiences to help understand common metaphors, new research suggests. Linguists and psychologists have debated how much the parts...
Stimulation of Brain Hormone Action May Improve Pneumonia Survival
An international research team may have found a way to block a second wave of death that can result from pneumonia treatment. Antibiotics are effective at killing pneumococcus – the cause of about 50 percent of pneumonias – but as it dies the bacterium...
Sweeping Genetic Analysis of Rare Disease Yields Common Mechanism of Hypertension
Analyzing all the genes of dozens of people suffering from a rare form of hypertension, Yale University researchers have discovered a new mechanism that regulates the blood pressure of all humans. The findings by an international research team headed...
Brain’s Connective Cells are Much More Than Glue
Glia cells, named for the Greek word for “glue,” hold the brain’s neurons together and protect the cells that determine our thoughts and behaviors, but scientists have long puzzled over their prominence in the activities of the brain...
Biker’s Warning! EPO Hits Blood Vessels to Raise Blood Pressure in the Brain
Erythropoietin or EPO might be considered a “performance enhancing” substance for athletes, but new research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) shows that these enhancements come at a high cost–increased risk...
Metabolic Defects in Mice Corrected with Transplanted Embryonic Neurons
A new study has revealed that immature neurons taken from healthy mouse embryos can repair damaged brain circuitry and partially normalize metabolism when transplanted into adult mice that have grown morbidly obese due to a genetic deficiency. This proof-of-principle...
Rebuilding the Brain’s Circuitry
Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely believed. Collaborators from Harvard University,...
