Pain and Central Nervous System Week

Brain Cancer - Study finds new clues to the origins of brain tumors

Developmental Biology - Fat molecules make bigger brains

Alzheimer Disease - New technique detects earliest signs of cognitive decline in healthy people

Brain Remodeling - Scientists discover how brain draws and re-draws picture of world

Speech Pathology - Brain activity abnormal in children with delayed speech

Stroke Mortality - More sudden deaths after left-sided stroke than after right-sided

Addiction Medicine - MK-801 attenuates cocaine induction of preprodynorphin mRNA levels

Alzheimer Disease - Amyloid plaque-forming beta-secretase BACE1 is controlled by heparan sulfate

Alzheimer Disease - Beta-amyloid released from lipid membrane by methionine oxidation

Alzheimer Disease - Caspase generates protein fragments with Smac/Diablo-like activities

Alzheimer Disease - Dehydroepiandrosterone reduces activity of BACE in stressed NT2 neurons

Alzheimer Disease - Patients learn how to stave off debilitating disease

Alzheimer Disease - Update on pharmacologic treatment of Alzheimer disease released

Alzheimer Disease - X-34 exhibits antioxidant activity in synaptosomal and neuronal systems

Anesthesia - Study explores whether new monitor helps patients recover faster

Anti-Infectives - Long-term linezolid treatment can cause toxic optic neuropathy

Atrial Fibrillation - Warfarin effective for stroke prevention

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - ANDA filed for generic version of Adderall

Autism - Humanoid robot to aid autism diagnosis is goal of new study

Autism - Large-scale study to try and unlock brain's mysteries

Botulism - Potent inhibitors of botulinum neurotoxin type B developed

Cardiovascular Disease Therapy - Antioxidant carvedilol shows promise for hypertension treatment

Cerebral Malaria - Inhibition of platelet adherence in brain protects mice against severe cerebral malaria

Chiropractic Care - Multidisciplinary therapy center opened in Broward County, Florida

Collaborations - Alliance to provide text-to-speech technology to disabled technology users

Collaborations - Icagen renews drug-discovery partnership

Constipation - Clinical study initiated for oral form of methylnaltrexone

Corporate Update - Stockholders of ALS-focused company approve reorganization

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - Only one more case of vCJD in Ireland - probably

Dementia - Protein deposition may lead to synaptic dysfunction, thus progressive dementias

Diagnostic Imaging - Leukoencephalopathy progression can be followed with diffusion-weighted MRI

Embryology - Airway smooth muscle is essential for fetal lung airway formation, innervation

Embryology - Tethered filum terminale may be caused by altered expression of CD44, NOT1

Endocrinology - Cisplatin binds HSP90, inhibiting glucocorticoid and androgen receptor binding

Endocrinology - Elements that control estrogen's effects on synaptic plasticity change with age

Endocrinology - Neurothrophins use paracrine control to command neurogenesis and vessel growth

Genetic Disorders -  GTF2I deletions likely underlie mental retardation in Williams syndrome

Genomics - Human chromosome 6 contains many genes relating to immunity, including HLA-B

Guillain Barre Syndrome -  Campylobacter jejuni infection leads to GBS via improper antibody regulation

Head Injury - Drug company stakes future on medicines from marijuana compounds

Heat-induced Immunoreactivity - Fire fatalities with cerebral heat coagulation will have tau-reactive neurons

Hypertension - Urotensin II may be neuromodulator of blood pressure

Hypertension Therapy - Losartan treatment can improve cognitive function in geriatric hypertensives

Insulin Shock - Experimental drugs reduce neuron death in rats following insulin shock

Kidney Transplantation - West Nile virus-associated meningoencephalitis is a risk after kidney transplant

Market Trends - Market for peripheral neuropathy treatment to surpass 1.5 billion patients

Mental Health - Female Parkinson disease patients are more susceptible to depression