Brain diseases News (6 articles)

PHILADELPHIA - For the first time, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that three different degenerative brain disorders are linked by a toxic form of the same protein. The protein, called Elk-1, was found in clumps of misshaped proteins that are the...

Published on 2 February 2010, 11:05

Categories: Alzheimer Brain Diseases Elk-1 Huntington’s disease Neural Protein Parkinson

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals.The finding, in mice, is expected to advance the understanding of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or...

Published on 28 January 2010, 15:08

Categories: Brain diseases Prion Proteins Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies TSEs

A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists.Kuru is a fatal prion disease, similar to CJD in humans and...

Published on 19 November 2009, 06:34

Categories: Brain diseases CJD G127V Genetics Kuru

Two children with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a fatal brain disease, have been successfully treated with a new gene therapy vector. Two years after treatment, the disease evolution has been stopped, and no adverse effect of the gene therapy has been observed so far. The results of this clinical...

Published on 6 November 2009, 08:34

Categories: Adrenoleukodystrophy ALD Brain Diseases Gene Therapy Hematopoietic Stem Cells HSCs Lentivirus Stem Cells

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered a set of brain proteins responsible for some of the most common and devastating brain diseases. The proteins underlie epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disease, mental retardation and neurodegenerative diseases including...

Published on 20 May 2009, 08:17

Categories: Brain Brain diseases MASCs Proteins Synapses

Neuroscientist will study brain diseases, develop philanthropic plans and lead recruitment efforts with other USC departments.By Katie NeithPat Levitt is the principal investigator of three National Institutes of Health grants. Pat Levitt, an esteemed neuroscientist from Vanderbilt...

Published on 21 November 2008, 19:05

Categories: brain diseases Neuroscience