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A neuro-oncology research team at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, led by the Director Mark A. Israel, MD with first author Gilbert J. Rahme, PhD, recently identified the transcription factor Id4 as a suppressor of tumor cell invasion in glioblastoma.

The ceremonial opening kick of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Sao Paolo, Brazil, which was performed--with the help of a brain-controlled exo-skeleton--by a local teen who had been paralyzed from the waist down due to a spinal cord injury, was a seminal moment for the area of neuroscience that strives to connect the brain with functional prosthetics.

In early childhood, the neurons inside children's developing brains form connections between various regions of brain "real estate." As described in a paper published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, cognitive neuroscientists at San Diego State University (SDSU) found that in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, the connections between the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum appear to be overdeveloped in sensorimotor regions of the brain.

When Rebecca Erwin was a varsity rower at the University of North Carolina, the coach had the team's members take a yoga and meditation class.

Scientists from the University of South Australia, along with colleagues from Third Military Medical University in Chongqing, China, have discovered the drug Edaravone can alleviate the progressive cognitive deficits of Alzheimer's disease, a major social and economic burden worldwide.

Combined company to develop and market new services for pharmaceutical R&D.

Transition Therapeutics announces results from Phase 1 AME & renal clearance clinical studies of neuropsychiatric drug candidate ELND005.

Vaccines target unique mutations in each patient’s tumor.

Many proteins interact with an RNA molecule called Xist to coat and silence one X chromosome in every female cell.

Both companies will continue their successful partnership.