neurological disorder

Evolving Technology Creating Opportunities for Central Nervous System Therapeutics

mksmith — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:56:35 -0500

Greystone Associates Analysis Reveals Growing Interest and Development Activity in Inhaled Drugs for Central Nervous System Disorders

Chemical chaperone could open door to treatment of neurological disorder

harminka — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:01:56 -0600

An unexpected finding turned out to be a clue leading researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to propose a new treatment approach for Niemann-Pick disease, a rare, deadly neurodegenerative disorder.

Nerve impulses from motor cortex can cause movement

harminka — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:45:08 -0500

Alien hand syndrome (AHS) is a rare neurological disorder that causes hand movement without the person being aware of what is happening or having control over the action. The afflicted person may sometimes reach for objects and manipulate them without wanting to do so, even to the point of having to use the healthy hand to restrain the alien hand.

Implicating Myelin in Early Evolution of Huntington's Disease

harminka — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:41:40 -0500

Last month, Dr. George Bartzokis, director of the UCLA Memory Disorders and Alzheimer's Disease Clinic, suggested in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia that the breakdown of a type of myelin that develops late in life promotes the buildup of toxic amyloid plaques long associated with Alzheimer's disease. Myelin is the "insulation" that wraps around nerve axons in the brain.