ANA News
2018-05-30 – New research suggests many patients with mild traumatic brain injuries aren’t getting the follow-up care they might need. Researchers tracked 831 patients treated for mild traumatic brain injury in 11 trauma center ERs between 2014 and 2016. Just 42 percent said they received information about TBI…
2018-05-25 – Experts from government, academia, industry, and non-profit organizations put forward recommendations that provide a roadmap for an integrated, multidisciplinary research agenda necessary to inform priorities for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The recommendations are designed to guide…
2018-05-22 – For the past two years, Sarah Benoit has been getting around with the help of a walker, waiting for a medicine that’s out of reach. Benoit, a former congressional aide, has ALS, a fatal neurological disease that gradually causes muscle weakness and paralysis. As it progresses, she struggles to…
2018-05-21 – The Kennedy Krieger Institute announced the appointment of Bradley (Brad) L. Schlaggar, M.D., Ph.D., as the organization's next president and CEO. Schlaggar, an ANA member, will assume this position this summer, continuing the organization's longstanding mission of improving the lives of children…
2018-05-18 – Prion diseases are slow degenerative brain diseases that occur in people and various other mammals. No vaccines or treatments are available, and these diseases are almost always fatal. Scientists have found little evidence of a protective immune response to prion infections. Further, microglia —…
2018-05-15 – A new tool developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has determined, for the first time, how two distinct sets of neurons in the mouse brain work together to control movement. The method, called spectrally resolved fiber photometry (SRFP), can be used to measure the activity of…
2018-05-08 – A new study identifies a molecule that may be critical to the repair of white matter, the fatty tissue wrapped around parts of brain cells that helps speed up communication. Damage to white matter is associated with several conditions, including multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy, and can occur…
2018-05-04 – In ‘Beautiful Brain,’ the secrets of neurons emerge in Nobel-winning scientist’s ink and pencil drawings. Read more: https://www.statnews.com/2018/05/03/beautiful-brain-cajal-drawings/
2018-05-02 – Aided by advanced stem cell technology and tissue chips, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers used stem cells originally derived from a person’s skin to recreate interactions between blood vessels and neurons that may occur early in the formation of the fetal human spinal cord. The…
2018-04-25 – Researchers found that ependymal cells need to keep producing a transcription factor called Foxj1 to do their jobs, but some viruses that infect the brain can halt the work of Foxj1 and allow cerebrospinal fluid to accumulate. Learn more: Uncovering inherent cellular plasticity of multiciliated…