Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 9, 2013

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Alberta bans bodychecking for peewees

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May , 2013

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Restless legs syndrome, insomnia and brain chemistry: A tangled mystery solved?

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 15, 2013

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New Technique Holds Promise For The Treatment Of Multiple Sclerosis And Cerebral Palsy

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Transcription factor–mediated reprogramming of fibroblasts to expandable, myelinogenic oligodendrocyte progenitor cells

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 8, 2013

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Researchers probe link between autism and gastrointestinal problems

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 2, 2013

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Ottawa doctors behind breakthrough MS report

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 22, 2013

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BP Control May Help Slow Alzheimer’s

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Rodrigue KM, et al “Risk factors for β-amyloid deposition in healthy aging: Vascular and genetic effects” JAMA Neurol 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.1342.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March , 2013

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Excellent Results For MS Drug “Plegridy”

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The results were presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 65th Annual Meeting. It is not published.

Further it compares the drug to placebo, a useless marker for clinicians. We want to know how it fares against other medication of a similar class at least and how it compares to other medication in use today.  It also refers to relative and not absolute risk reduction.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March , 2013

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‘If in doubt, sit it out,’ concussion guide advises

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Concussion guidelines, American Academy of Neurology

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 18, 2013

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Vein-opening MS treatment shows no benefit in trials

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 15, 2013

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February , 2013

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Large genetic study paves way for new treatment of mental illness

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Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 21, 2013

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Antioxidants may not help prevent stroke and dementia

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Total antioxidant capacity of the diet and major neurologic outcomes in older adults

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 8, 2013

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Heart rhythm disturbance may explain many strokes

Reference: Presented at the International Stroke Conference. Not peer-reviewed or pub;ished

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 7, 2013

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Number of Alzheimer’s patients will triple by 2050: study

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Alzheimer disease in the United States (2010–2050) estimated using the 2010 census

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 28, 2012

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‘Dystextia’: When gibberish texts are a sign of stroke

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Dystextia: Acute Stroke in the Modern Age

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 3, 2012

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Study shows link between sports head injuries and chronic degenerative brain disease

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The spectrum of disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 14, 2012

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Doctors shocked as neuroscientist ‘talks’ with man in vegetative state

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 11, 2012

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More Younger Adults Are Suffering Strokes

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“Age at stroke: Temporal trends in stroke incidence in a large, biracial population”; Brett M. Kissela, Jane C. Khoury, Kathleen Alwell, and others; Neurology, published online before print 10 Oct 2012; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318270401d; Link to Abstract

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 5, 2012

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Aspirin May Slow Brain Decline In Elderly Women With Heart Risk

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“Does low-dose acetylsalicylic acid prevent cognitive decline in women with high cardiovascular risk? A 5-year follow-up of a non-demented population-based cohort of Swedish elderly women”

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September , 2012

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Concussions can ruin quality of life for young athletes, CHEO research finds

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Presented at Brain Injury Association of Canada annual conference, Ottawa, Sept. 2012

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 20, 2012

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Experimental MS drug shown to reduce relapses: studies

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Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Study of Oral BG-12 or Glatiramer in Multiple Sclerosis

Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Study of Oral BG-12 for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 17, 2012

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Animal Study Offers Prospect of Autism Treatment

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Shared Synaptic Pathophysiology in Syndromic and Nonsyndromic Rodent Models of Autism

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 14, 2012

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“Mini” strokes carry high risk of disability, Canadian study finds

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What Causes Disability After Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Stroke?

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 2, 2012

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Caffeine May Help Treat Parkinson’s Disease

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Caffeine for treatment of Parkinson disease

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 16, 2012

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Gait Changes May Signal Cognitive Decline, Presage Alzheimer’s

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 28, 2012

Source: Speech Algorithms To Detect Parkinson’s Disease Reference: “Novel Speech Signal Processing Algorithms for High-Accuracy Classification of Parkinson’s Disease”; Tsanas, A.; Little, M.A.; McSharry, P.E.; Spielman, J.; Ramig, L.O; IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, published 2012, Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 1264 – 1271; DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2183367; Link to [...]

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 4, 2012

 

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 17, 2012

 

 

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New Zealand firm to trial pig cells to treat Parkinson’s

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 9, 2012

 

 

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Eating Berries May Lower Men’s Parkinson’s Risk

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“Habitual intake of dietary flavonoids and risk of Parkinson disease”; X. Gao, A. Cassidy, M.A. Schwarzschild, E.B. Rimm, and A. Ascherio; Neurology WNL.0b013e31824f7fc4; published online ahead of print 4 April 2012; DOI:10.1212/WNL.0b013e31824f7fc4; Link to Abstract.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 9, 2012

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Donepezil For Treatment Of Moderate To Severe Alzheimer’s

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“Donepezil and Memantine for Moderate-to-Severe Alzheimer’s Disease”
Robert Howard, M.D., Rupert McShane, F.R.C.Psych., James Lindesay, D.M.et.al.,
New England Journal Of Medicine, March 2012, dpi:366:893-903

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 9, 2012

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Memory Gets Jolt in Brain Research

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Memory Enhancement and Deep-Brain Stimulation of the Entorhinal Area

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 29, 2011

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Diet rich in fish, vitamins may reduce brain shrinkage

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Nutrient biomarker patterns, cognitive function, and MRI measures of brain aging

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 15, 2011

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Brain Stimulation Reduces Post-Stroke Neglect

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Theta-burst stimulation of the left hemisphere accelerates recovery of hemispatial neglect

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 1, 2011

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RSNA: A Fish a Week Keeps the Brain at Its Peak

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 21, 2011

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 10, 2011

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EEG can detect awareness in vegetative patients

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The Lancet – Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 7, 2011

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Hope for Stem-Cell Treatment of Parkinson’s 

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Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson’s disease

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 17, 2011

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Specialist calls for targeting of physical side of dementia

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 28, 2011

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Brains of Obese People May Show Less Impulse Control for High-Calorie Foods

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Low blood sugar ‘affects food cravings’

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 19, 2011

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Listening to the brain’s ‘inner voice’

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 13, 2011

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Gene that can control chronic pain discovered

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Emery EC, Young GT, Berrocoso EM, et al. HCN2 Ion Channels Play a Central Role in Inflammatory and Neuropathic Pain. Science 2011: 1462-1466

Gene that can control chronic pain discovered

Emery EC, Young GT, Berrocoso EM, et al. HCN2 Ion Channels Play a Central Role in Inflammatory and Neuropathic Pain. Science 2011: 1462-1466

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 30, 2011

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Feds OK funding for MS ‘liberation therapy’ trials

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 17, 2011

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Hospital care for stroke victims lacking: report

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Canadian Stroke Network: The Quality of Stroke Care in Canada

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 23, 2011

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Viagra® Could Reduce Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms

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Pifarré et al. Sildenafil (Viagra) ameliorates clinical symptoms and neuropathology in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, Acta Neuropathol (2011) 121:499–508.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 20, 2011

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Electrostimulation helps paralyzed man stand up

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 16, 2011

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Rare form of dementia increasing with aging population

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 20, 2011

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New Alzheimer’s Guidelines Stress Early Diagnosis

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New Criteria and Guidelines for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 14, 2011

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MS Study Debunks Blocked-Vein Theory

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Addendum: Study has been published here -

Prevalence, sensitivity, and specificity of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in MS

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 11, 2011

Source: One year later, MS patients track their progress  

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 5, 2011

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New Alzheimer’s genes identified

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Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease