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Fast Track designation for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

NIH study suggests alternative drug to treat virus.

Postgraduate certificate in clinical trial management offered in North America.

Researchers in the Beckman Institute’s Lifelong Brain and Cognition Lab investigate the brain for differences in cognitive performance among healthy aging individuals.

Salk scientists discover a learning circuit in worms that gives clues to human behavior.

Two types of touch information- the feel of an object and the position of an animal's limb- have long been thought to flow into the brain via different channels and be integrated in sophisticated processing regions.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can produce strikingly different clinical outcomes in young children, with some having strong conversation abilities and others not talking at all. A study published online in the journal Neuron reveals the reason: At the very first signs of possible autism in infants and toddlers, neural activity in language-sensitive brain regions is already similar to normal in those ASD toddlers who eventually go on to develop good language ability but nearly absent in those who later have a poor language outcome.

Scientists have found a signal in the brain that reflects young children's aversion to members of the opposite sex (the "cooties" effect) and also their growing interest in opposite-sex peers as they enter puberty.

Scientists from Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) in Japan have discovered how nerve cells adjust to low energy environments during the brain's growth process.

Discovery could offer a new target for treatment of glioblastoma.