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Opening the brain to new treatments
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One of the trickiest parts of treating brain conditions is the blood brain barrier, a blockade of cells that prevent both harmful toxins and helpful pharmaceuticals from getting to the body's control center. But there is a technique that uses an MRI machine to guide the use of microbubbles and focused ultrasound to help drugs enter the brain, which may open new treatment avenues for devastating conditions like Alzheimer's and brain cancers.
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Filling a brain aneurysm with wire can prevent rupture
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Carolyn Davis owes her health to wires. Davis, 55, of Chicago, benefited from a treatment known as coiling after she suffered a brain aneurysm in November. The technique, which was approved as a treatment by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1995, involves inserting a thin tube into an artery in the groin and guiding it up into the brain. Small platinum wire coils are passed through the catheter into the aneurysm. This leads the blood to clot and seals off the aneurysm. Coiling stopped the bleeding in Davis' brain.
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Jason Egan's shrinking brain: Doctors baffled by disorder
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Jason Egan does not walk, talk or eat like most nine-year-olds. He gets around in a wheelchair and depends on a feeding tube threaded into his stomach. He makes signs with his hands to communicate and has mustered the word "mom" on occasion. So far, no one has figured out exactly what is wrong with Egan. His doctors know that the boy's brain has been shrinking since birth, but he has tested negative for all known neurodegenerative disorders. Jason Egan may have a disease that is new to science.
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Nurse helps baby who suffered stroke in the womb
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The word complication is the last word parents want to hear in the delivery room. That fear turned to reality for Le Center, Minn., couple Dan Wright and Emily VanDrope. They were shocked to hear their baby had suffered a stroke while in the womb, they said. The family credits a nurse at Mankato Hospital for saving their baby's life.
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Avoiding dementia similar to heart disease
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Late-life dementia has a lot in common with heart disease — and many of the same causes, according to an article published in Nature Reviews Neurology. Like heart disease, the cognitive impairment that accompanies aging is usually the result of a combination of lifestyle and other factors, the article says. Diabetes, obesity, untreated hypertension, sedentary lifestyle and stress are all linked to both heart disease and dementia.
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Children at risk for schizophrenia show brain network dysfunction
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A team of neuroscientists has discovered developmental differences in brain network function in children whose parents have schizophrenia when compared to those with no family history of mental illness. Using fMRI, researchers studied the participant’s brain functions as they looked at pictures of human faces depicting positive, negative and neutral emotional expressions. The researchers found that children at risk for schizophrenia are characterized by reduced network communication and disordered network responses to emotional faces.
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Epilepsy common in children after stroke
Medscape News
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It is not uncommon for children who suffer a stroke to develop epilepsy, and those who have seizures at the onset of the stroke are at particularly high risk, new research suggests. The rates of epilepsy are also significantly higher than seen in adults after a stroke, the researchers report.
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Research suggests new therapeutic approach for spinal cord injury
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A new study suggests that administering FTY720, an oral drug that has shown promise in trials for human multiple sclerosis, significantly improves locomotor recovery in mice with spinal cord injury. The research suggests a possible new avenue to counteract the degeneration of the spinal cord in human SCI.
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Promising new therapy could 'cure' paralyzed patients
The Washington Examiner
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Dr. W. Dalton Dietrich, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, was recently in Washington seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to start a clinical safety trial of a remarkable new therapy for those suffering from brain and spinal cord injuries.
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Woman survives removal of five brain aneurysms
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
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It happened in an instant. One minute Tina Hunter, a Lancaster resident and mother of two, was getting ready for work. The next she was doubled over with a headache so severe she immediately had to lie down. Hunter didn't know at the time, but she was suffering from a ruptured brain aneurysm that had resulted in a stroke, a life-threatening condition that occurs only in about 3 percent of U.S. patients.
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