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2018-04-24 – An expert panel unanimously recommended that the Food and Drug Administration approve a new medicine for two rare and devastating forms of epilepsy, paving the way for the authorization of what would be the country’s first medication made from marijuana. The 13-0 vote from the FDA advisory…
2018-04-19 – Scientists at the Salk Institute report the first successful implant of human cerebral organoids into the brains of another species. Learn more: Miniature human brains grow for months when implanted in mice skulls
2018-04-16 – Following head injury, the protective lining that surrounds the brain may get a little help from its friends: immune cells that spring into action to assist with repairs. In a new study, scientists from the National Institutes of Health watched in real-time as different immune cells took on…
2018-04-12 – In the early days of neuroscience research, scientists painstakingly stained brain cells and drew by hand what they saw in a microscope. Fast forward to 2018 and machines may be able to learn how to do that work. According to a new study in Cell, it may be possible to teach machines how to pick out…
2018-04-10 – The research community now has a new framework toward developing a biologically-based definition of Alzheimer’s disease. This proposed “biological construct” is based on measurable changes in the brain and is expected to facilitate better understanding of the disease process and the sequence of…
2018-04-06 – ANA Past President Dr. Robert Brown Jr. comments on the potential of a new ALS treatment: Trials for potential ALS treatment spark cautious hope
2018-04-05 – A new study in primates raises the possibility that children infected with the Zika virus during infancy could be at risk of experiencing brain damage. Zika is known to destroy developing brain tissue when it infects a fetus in the womb. Scientists know less about how the virus might affect the…
2018-03-29 – It’s been hypothesized that microglia help prune synapses as the brain develops. Researchers found that in mouse brains, that may not be the case. Learn more: Microglia remodel synapses by presynaptic trogocytosis and spine head filopodia induction
2018-03-27 – New findings from ANA President David Holtzman, MD could lead to a way to halt the brain damage triggered by amyloid plaques while Alzheimer's is still in its early stages, perhaps before symptoms appear. The research is available in the March 26 Journal of Clinical Investigation. “Many people…
2018-03-26 – How does your brain change with age? Frances Jensen, MD, FACP, director on the ANA's board, professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-director of the Penn Medicine Translational Neuroscience Center at the Perelman School of Medicine, explains in a…