Pain and Central Nervous System Week

Alcoholism - Mouse model links alcohol intake to marijuana-like brain compounds

Attention Deficit Disorder - Study shows how the brain pays attention

Alzheimer Disease - 22R-hydroxycholesterol protects from beta-amyloid peptide's cytotoxicity

General Anesthesia - Propofol-based anesthetic prevents nausea and vomiting

Migraine Headache - Propofol may be new treatment strategy for refractory migraine headache

Multiple Sclerosis - Chemokine system may be of particular interest for leukocyte infiltration of CNS

Multiple Sclerosis - Number of therapeutic strategies have been proposed to enhance myelin repair

Addictive Behavior - Morphine-induced conditioned place preference can be reinstated by drug

Ageing - Biochemical and behavioral reversion in brain by dietary supplements

Alexander Disease - Identification of the GFAP gene mutation in the hereditary adult-onset form

Alzheimer Disease - Altered G(Q/11) and RGS4 protein levels may affect muscarinic receptor system

Alzheimer Disease - Amyloid beta-peptide disrupts neural stem cell differentiation

Alzheimer Disease - Gene variation traced to greater risk

Alzheimer Disease - Improved thioflavin-T derivative can label beta-amyloid plaque in vivo

Alzheimer Disease - Memory tests predict dementia

Alzheimer Disease - New research projects increased demand for long-term care in England

Alzheimer Disease Vaccine - A-beta antibodies may prevent Alzheimer disease plaque formation

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Histidine residues oxidation induces superoxide dismutase misfolding/aggregation

Bacterial Meningitis - Neuronal injury is caused by cytokine-related inflammatory pathways

Brain Cancer - Loss of chromosome 10 yields negative prognosis in oligoastrocytomas

Brain Damage - Simulation of unilateral neglect using prisms shows sensorimotor involvement

Brain Function - Retrieval processing during recognition and exclusion tasks is similar

CNS Inflammation - Long-term magnetic therapy may be safer than shock therapy

CNS Inflammatory Diseases - Astrocyte cytokine/iNOS induction by interferon-beta may have implications

Canavan Disease - Aspartoacylase is restricted to myelin synthesizing cells in normal brain

Cell Biology - Bone marrow generates new neurons in human brains

Central Nervous System - Prolactin-releasing peptide analogues may help clarify multiple functions

Cerebral Ischemia - Expression of cyclooxygenase-2, 5-lipoxygenase is upregulated in foci in humans

Cerebral Malaria - Platelet accumulation in brain linked to pathogenesis

Cerebral Palsy - Bispectral index values lower at different serolurane levels

Chronic Pain - Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing may help condition

Cocaine Use - Sensitization is associated with increased Fos expression in the accumbens

Communication - Neural systems for lexical retrieval are the same for ASL and spoken English

Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Alkaloids from medicinal herbs could alter landscape of several diseases

Depression - Corticotropin-releasing factor produces context-dependent behavior in primates

Depression - Male college students may suffer more depressive disorder than females

Depression Studies - Norepinephrine appears to be another neuronal differentiating agent

Down Syndrome - Neuronal stem cells from afflicted mice show premature apoptosis

Drug Dependence - Low N-acetyl-aspartate occurs in the anterior cingulum but not visual cortex

Embryology - Many nicotinic receptors expressed differentially during spinal cord development

Epilepsy - FDA approves new treatment for children

Epilepsy - Severe abdominal pain in epilepsy controlled by amygdalohippocampectomy

Estrogen Receptors - Spinal cord's neurons with estrogen receptor-alpha upregulated during pregnancy