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Pain in a dish - Researcher turn skin cells into pain sensing neurons

After more than six years of intensive effort, and repeated failures that made the quest at times seem futile, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) and Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB) have successfully converted mouse and human skin cells into pain sensing neurons that respond to a number of stimuli that cause acute and inflammatory pain.
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Novel robotic walker helps patients regain natural gait and increases productivity of physiotherapists

Survivors of stroke or other neurological conditions such as spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries and Parkinson’s disease often struggle with mobility. To regain their motor functions, these patients are required to undergo physical therapy sessions.
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Brain injuries in mice treated using bone marrow stem cells, antioxidants

Researchers of CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU-UCH) for the first time transplanted bone marrow stem cells into damaged brain tissue while applying lipoic acid (a potent antioxidant), with the aim of improving neuroregeneration in the tissue.
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Epidemic spreading and neurodegenerative progression

Researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute have used a model inspired by patterns of epidemic disease spreading to map how misfolded proteins propagate within the brain.
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New measuring system to objectively ascertain the level of fatigue in physicians through eye movement

The speed of saccadic movements (rapid eye movements) is an excellent way to objectively measure the level of fatigue in a physician. Results prove that after a 24-hour medical shift, the speed of saccadic movements diminishes and the subjective perception of fatigue augments.
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Weight and eating habits in Parkinson's disease

Non-motor disorders also involved in changes in weight and food intake Patients affected by Parkinson's disease often show marked changes in body weight: they may gain or lose a lot of weight depending on the stage of the disease, or they may put on up to ten kilos after deep brain stimulation (a treatment to alleviate the symptoms).
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Brain training using sounds can help aging brain ignore distractions

As we age, we have an increasingly harder time ignoring distractions. But new research online November 20 in the journal Neuron reveals that by learning to make discriminations of a sound amidst progressively more disruptive distractions, we can diminish our distractibility.
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Imagination, reality flow in opposite directions in the brain

As real as that daydream may seem, its path through your brain runs opposite reality.
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Reprogramming 'support cells' into neurons could repair injured adult brains

The portion of the adult brain responsible for complex thought, known as the cerebral cortex, lacks the ability to replace neurons that die as a result of Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and other devastating diseases.
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New approach for treating ALS: Re-evaluating old drugs

Blocking molecules involved in ALS-drug resistance may improve how well ALS therapeutics work, suggesting that re-evaluation of drugs that appeared to have failed might be appropriate Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the neurodegenerative disease that primarily kills motor neurons, normally leads to paralysis and death 2 to 5 years from diagnosis.
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