December 23, 2024

Physical Activity May Shield Against Brain Aging

A study revealed that physically active septuagenarians with obesity showed "younger" brain ages than their sedentary counterparts, suggesting exercise may help preserve brain structure regardless of body mass index.

Conexiant

December 20, 2024

Riluzole Shows Promise in Reversing Cognitive Decline from Radiation Therapy

Boosting brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) with riluzole may mitigate cognitive dysfunction from radiation therapy.

Conexiant

December 11, 2024

AI Detects Stroke Lesions on CT Scans

A deep learning algorithm achieved 72% accuracy in identifying ischaemic stroke lesions on brain CT scans. It showed higher accuracy for follow-up scans compared to baseline scans and could be a vital development in AI systems using routine clinical scans.

Conexiant

December 09, 2024

Blood Pressure Drugs May Impact HD Timing

Researchers found use of β-blockers is associated with lowered risk of Huntington disease.

Conexiant

December 04, 2024

Brain Stimulation Restores Walking in Paralysis: Pilot Study

Deep brain stimulation in a new brain region enhances recovery of lower limb movements for spinal cord injury patients, leading to immediate walking improvements and long-term benefits, as reported in Nature Medicine.

Reuters

July 14, 2023

Scientists Discover a Deadly Brain Cancer’s Hidden Weakness

The difficult-to-treat brain cancer glioblastoma steals a person’s mental faculties as it spreads, yet the tumor’s insidious ability to infiltrate distant networks in the brain could also prove its undoing.

UCSF MedConnection

July 25, 2023

Origins of Glioma Brain Cancer Found to be in the Epigenome

While cancers often originate from mutations and other alterations of cells' DNA, researchers in the Bernstein Laboratory at Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have found that gliomas – incurable brain tumors – can arise due to changes in the epigenome, the collection of compounds that are deposited on DNA and alter gene activity without changing the sequence of DNA itself.

Dana-Farber

June 09, 2023

"Frontiers of Medical Research: Brain Science,” a Supplement from Science and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

This collection of eight articles brings together neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and geneticists, among others, to unravel the pathophysiology of brain dysfunction.

Mount Sinai New York

November 02, 2023

Immune Checkpoint Inhibition With Single-Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery May Not Increase Risk of Radiation Necrosis in Patients With NSCLC Brain Metastases

Researchers have explored the impact of a combination therapy on radiation necrosis in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) brain metastases.

The ASCO Post