Parkinson’s drug may help with brain injuries, report finds February 29, 2012 Daily doses of a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease significantly improved function in…
Tracking pedigree is crucial to prevent counterfeit drugs from reaching patients, Boston cancer doctors say February 15, 2012 The Food and Drug Administration last week sent letters to 19 physicians in California, Texas, and…
Childhood abuse disrupts brain formation, Harvard study says February 13, 2012 A new study has shown that childhood abuse leads to permanent changes in a seahorse-shaped area of…
Bioengineering for Hearing, Sight and Mobility November 17, 2011 Bertarelli Symposium highlights new collaborations for tackling neurological disorders
New Mouse Model Recreates Common Form of Autism October 20, 2011 Over the past decade, new technologies have revealed that autism spectrum disorder has a…
New Clue to Parkinson’s August 14, 2011 A new study finds that a protein key to Parkinson’s disease has likely been mischaracterized. The…
Web-Crawling the Brain March 9, 2011 The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much…
Battle of the Sexes, Fruit-fly Style November 23, 2010 Pity the female fruit fly. Being a looker is simply not enough. To get a date, much less a proposal…
Making peace with my abnormal brain Annie Brewster, instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, authored this about…
