ANA News
2018-11-07 – 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…
2018-11-06 – 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…
2018-11-02 – 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…
2018-11-01 – 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,…
2018-10-31 – 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…
2018-10-29 – Phosphorylation of one particular tau protein residue measured in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) correlated with the distinct biological stages of Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported here. Among people in the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) -- a group in which Alzheimer's disease…
2018-10-17 – Getting ready to apply for a grant and don’t know where to start? Set yourself up for success with tips from the experts at NIH. Quickly learn how to access application forms, ensure your application is a good fit for an announcement, and make an important final check of your application after…
2018-10-12 – You wake up from a vivid dream, but find it’s gone by daylight; you see something beautiful or surprising in the morning, but can’t describe it fully by afternoon. What if you could just download your thoughts into images, without the intercession of memory or language? The French artist Pierre…
2018-10-11 – Engineers have created an implantable, biodegradable device that’s designed to accelerate growth and boost healing in a damaged nerve. The device — as tiny as a dime and as thin as a sheet of paper — delivered tiny zaps of electricity to damaged nerves that had been repaired by surgery, but still…
2018-10-08 – New research from Annals of Neurology Editor-in-Chief Dr. Clifford Saper and his team pinpoints a group of cells in the brain that play a role in healthy sleep. Learn more: Galanin neurons in the ventrolateral preoptic area promote sleep and heat loss in mice