Brain Cancer

According to the American Brain Tumor Association, just over 24,000 patients will be diagnosed with a primary malignant brain tumour during 2012 in the US alone. Some 80% of primary malignant brain...

Damage

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is defined as a disorder of brain function characterized by recurrent seizures that have a sudden onset.  (Oxford Medical Dictionary).  A seizure is caused by a sudden burst of ex...

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia ALL

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is a life-threatening disease in which the cells that normally develop into lymphocytes become cancerous and rapidly replace normal cells in the bone marrow. ALL acc...

Oxidative damage

Study: Ritalin treats apathy in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Leslye Nathe did not realize the profound effect that Ritalin was having on her mother's Alzheimer's disease until a doctor stopped the prescription.

Low-Cost ‘Cooling Cure’ Could Avert Brain Damage in Oxygen-Starved Babies

When babies are deprived of oxygen before birth, brain damage and disorders such as cerebral palsy can occur. Extended cooling can prevent brain injuries, but this treatment is not always available......

Brain protein called vimentin can indicate damage to the hippocampus following binge drinking

Binge drinking is known to increase the risk of developing dementia and/or brain damage. A new study used rodents to test markers of neurodegeneration to determine a threshold for brain damage. The vi...

Is Your School Cracking Down on Ritalin and Adderall?

The school year may be winding down for university students, but with final exams still looming, and summer sessions right behind, it’s safe to say that more than a few people will be looking for a...

A brain protein called vimentin can indicate damage to the hippocampus following binge drinking

Chronic drinking is known to have detrimental health effects such as cardiac and liver problems, cognitive impairments, and brain damage. Binge drinking in particular is known to increase the risk of...

Damage To The Hippocampus Following Binge Drinking Indicated By A Brain Protein Called Vimentin

Chronic drinking is known to have detrimental health effects such as cardiac and liver problems, cognitive impairments, and brain damage. Binge drinking in particular is known to increase the risk of...

Animal study: long-term ritalin doesn't impact growth

(HealthDay) -- Chronic use of methylphenidate (Ritalin) in young monkeys has no significant effect on growth or the dopamine system, or the likelihood of becoming addicted to cocaine, according to a s...

Enhancing social conformity with Ritalin

Sci is at Neurotic Physiology today , talking about a study using Ritalin to enhance...social conformity. It looks like Ritalin exposure may enhance the salience (or importance) of other people's o...

HPLC enantioseparation of α,α-diphenyl-2-pyrrolidinemethanol and methylphenidate using a chiral fluorescent derivatization reagent and its application to the analysis of rat plasma.

Enantioseparation of α,α-diphenyl-2-pyrrolidinemethanol (D2PM) and methylphenidate (MPH; Ritalin(®)) using (R)-(-)-4-(N,N-dimethylaminosulfonyl)-7-(3-isothiocyanatopyrrolidin-1-yl)-2,1,3-benzoxadia...

Hemispheric processing of vocal emblem sounds.

Vocal emblems, such as shh and brr, are speech sounds that have linguistic and nonlinguistic features; thus, it is unclear how they are processed in the brain. Five adult dextral individuals with left...

Pharmacologic amelioration of severe hypoglycemia-induced neuronal damage.

Hypoglycemia is a common complication for insulin treated people with diabetes. Severe hypoglycemia, which occurs in the setting of excess or ill-timed insulin administration, has been shown to cause...

NAD(+) administration decreases ischemic brain damage partially by blocking autophagy in a mouse model of brain ischemia.

Nicotinamide adenine dinuleotide (NAD(+)) plays critical roles in multiple biological functions. Previous studies have indicated that NAD(+) treatment decreases oxidative stress-induced death of prima...

Inhaled nitric oxide reduces secondary brain damage after traumatic brain injury in mice.

Ischemia, especially pericontusional ischemia, is one of the leading causes of secondary brain damage after traumatic brain injury (TBI). So far efforts to improve cerebral blood flow (CBF) after TBI...