Departments: Neurology
08/03/2010
Immunotherapy could aid stroke recovery
Trials for a new type of treatment for stroke that could help millions of people at risk of death or disability should commence in 2011. A research team in France has …
08/03/2010
When is our hand not our hand?
When we look at our hands, how do we know they are part of our body? This seems like a strange question because it is something most of us take for granted. Exciting new data …
07/07/2010
Multiple Sclerosis drugs scheme ‘a costly failure’
A multiple sclerosis risk sharing scheme, set up by the Department of Health (DoH) in 2002 to ensure that disease-modifying drugs were available on the National Health Service …
06/24/2010
SECARS microscopy – a window to the world of molecules
SECARS microscopy, a procedure which is based on quantum effects, with which certain molecules can be monitored virtually in real time, turns out to be a highly sensitive tool for …
06/24/2010
Costs of Parkinson's disease differ greatly between countries
Care for Parkinson's patients can cost between 5,240 and 19,620 Euro a year. This has been shown in a study done in six European countries by the European Cooperative Network for …
06/21/2010
Neurological diseases on the rise
„Diseases of the nervous system and the brain occur more frequently than cancer. According to recent calculations of health care costs, they represent a burden of 386 billion …
05/21/2010
Peripheral nerve surgery
Neurosurgery has seen enormous progress, which should benefit as many patients as possible. However, according to Prof. Hanno Millesi MD, director of the Millesi Centre for …
05/14/2010
Stroke - Changing radiology assistants’ role speeds diagnoses
A key development at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), east of England, has seen a change in the role of radiology assistants: They now help to prepare patients …
04/30/2010
Catching Multiple Sclerosis Before It Strikes
More than 2 million over the world suffer from Multiple sclerosis (MS). It attacks the central nervous system and eventually renders most patients disabled. Although there is …
04/13/2010
EPDA Champions Change for People with Parkinson’s Disease in Europe
To mark the first European Parkinson’s Action Day on April 12th, the European Parkinson’s Disease Association (EPDA) announced the launch of a major new investigation into the …
01/27/2010
New concepts in stroke therapy
Like a bolt from the blue ischemic stroke strikes a patient unpredictably. The consequences are devastating: stroke is the number one cause of serious disabilities in adulthood - …
01/07/2010
Neuroimaging Technique Identifies Patients at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease in Healthy Brains
How the brain changes with age is not well-characterized and even less is known about the factors influencing the rate of brain aging. Brain imaging can offer a window into risk …
11/21/2009
Quick accurate cervical cancer test
The United Kingdom has a strong medical devices industry; more than 2,000 companies employ over 50,000 people and support the employment of many more in this field. About 200 of …
11/21/2009
Aneurysm - Coil, surgery or clip?
A young singer leans against the mixing desk in a recording studio in a laid-back manner. She listens to songs just recorded for her new album, moving her lips to the sound. …
11/17/2009
Parkinson's Disease: genetic risk factors identified
Two genes containing mutations known to cause rare familial forms of parkinsonism are also associated with the more common, sporadic form of the disease where there is no family …
07/13/2009
Multiple Sclerosis: Benefactors in the Brain
The inflammatory process in the brain of multiple sclerosis patients is triggered by their own immune system. However, there is one type of immune cells that seems to fight …
07/01/2009
Research project @neurIST tackles cerebral aneurysms
When a cerebral aneurysm ruptures, mortality is high and survivors often suffer stroke-like long-term disabilities. However, some aneurysms remain stable and never rupture. …
07/01/2009
Robotics and upper limb rehabilitation after strokes
In many ways the brain works like a hard disk. If the plug is pulled, important data is damaged and the system has to be rebooted. …
05/01/2009
2009 International Neuro-rehabilitation Symposium (INRS)
My dream is that children with neurological motion disorders will travel through virtual worlds with the help of a robotic gait orthosis. For example, they might explore a farm, …
09/12/2008
Fear of relationships - it's in the genes
There can be many reasons why a person might have relationship problems, but now Swedish scientists at Medical University Karolinska Institutet found a specific gene variant that …
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