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  A Noninvasive Avenue for Parkinson's Disease Gene Therapy

  April 21, 2013 — Researchers have developed a gene therapy approach that may one day stop Parkinson's disease in it tracks, preventing disease progression and reversing its symptoms. The novelty of the approach lies ... > full story
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  Stem Cell Transplant Restores Memory, Learning in Mice

  April 21, 2013 — For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and ... > full story
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  Hologram-Like 3-D Brain Helps Researchers Decode Migraine Pain

  April 18, 2013 — Wielding a joystick and wearing special glasses, a pain researcher rotates and slices apart a large, colorful, 3-D brain floating in space before ... > full story
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  Aerobic Exercise May Protect Cognitive Abilities of Heavy Drinkers

  April 16, 2013 — Aerobic exercise may help prevent and perhaps even reverse some of the brain damage associated with heavy alcohol consumption, according to a new ... > full story
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  New Light Shed on Traumatic Brain Injuries

  April 15, 2013 — A new article offers the latest information concerning a "switch" that turns "on" and "off" inflammation in the brain after ... > full story
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  Freezing Nerves Knocks Pain out Cold

  April 14, 2013 — Using a tiny ball of ice, a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment called cryoneurolysis safely short circuits chronic pain caused by nerve damage, according to new ... > full story

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  Restoring Paretic Hand Function Via an Artificial Neural Connection Bridging Spinal Cord Injury

  April 11, 2013 — Scientists have investigated the effects of introducing a novel artificial neural connection which bridged a spinal cord lesion in a paretic monkey. This allowed the monkey to electrically stimulate ... > full story
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  Anesthetic Linked to Brain Cell Death in Newborn Mice

  April 8, 2013 — Exposure to the anesthetic agent isoflurane increases "programmed cell death" of specific types of cells in the newborn mouse brain, a new study ... > full story
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  Shedding Light on a Gene Mutation That Causes Signs of Premature Aging

  April 8, 2013 — Researchers found that mice developed without the ATRX gene had problems in in the forebrain, the part of the brain associated with learning and memory, and in the anterior pituitary which has a ... > full story
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  Experts Call for Research on Prevalence of Delayed Neurological Dysfunction After Head Injury

  April 5, 2013 — One of the most controversial topics in neurology today is the prevalence of serious permanent brain damage after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Long-term studies and a search for genetic risk factors ... > full story

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