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2018-09-06 – New from Science Magazine: The Alzheimer’s gamble: NIH tries to turn billions in new funding into treatment for deadly brain disease
2018-09-05 – For many years, researchers have thought that the scar that forms after a spinal cord injury actively prevents damaged neurons from regrowing. In a study of rodents, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health showed they could overcome this barrier and reconnect severed spinal cord…
2018-09-04 – Results from a clinical trial of more than 250 participants with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) revealed that ibudilast was better than a placebo in slowing down brain shrinkage. The study also showed that the main side effects of ibudilast were gastrointestinal and headaches. The study was…
2018-08-30 – Scientists have taken another step toward understanding what makes the human brain unique. An international team has identified a kind of brain cell that exists in people but not mice, the team reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience. "This particular type of cell had properties that had never…
2018-08-28 – According to a new study of mice and humans, tiny tunnels run from skull bone marrow to the lining of the brain and may provide a direct route for immune cells responding to injuries caused by stroke and other brain disorders. “We always thought that immune cells from our arms and legs traveled…
2018-08-24 – On August 23, the Senate passed the Health & Human Services spending bill with a $2 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health, providing the support needed to advance essential biomedical research. Learn more: Senate Passes HHS Spending Bill w/ $2 Billion Increase for NIH
2018-08-22 – Scientists have developed “organs on a chip” as miniature models of tissue to test how cells interact and respond to different drugs and experiments. Now, researchers report they’ve taken the approach one step further, crafting a chip model of the blood-brain barrier. Learn more: A linked organ-on-…
2018-08-20 – A new JAMA study suggests that traumatic brain injury is linked to an increased risk of suicide, following on past research that has pointed to a connection between the two. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 35,000 deaths by suicide in Denmark over 35 years. Roughly 10 percent of people had…
2018-08-17 – Engineers have created a new kind of stretchy electronic patch that could one day be used to wirelessly monitor everything from breathing to brain and heart activity. The scientists stacked four layers of flexible circuit boards, with tiny connections between each, and filled them with conductive…
2018-08-16 – The 10-year Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is now nearing the halfway point, transitioning from its first stage of developing tools for research to its second stage of using those tools to "make fundamental discoveries about how brain circuits work…