All Posts: News Release

• Zooming in on Brain Circuits Allows Researchers to Stop Seizure Activity

  WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found, in animal models, that they can “switch off” epileptic seizures. The findings, published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provide the first evidence that while different types of seizures start in varied areas of the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, epilepsy, mind, neuroscience

• Nilotinib Appears Safe in Parkinson’s Trial; Drug Thought to Allow Dopamine Replenishment

  WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A clinical trial investigating the repurposed cancer drug nilotinib in people with Parkinson’s disease finds that it is reasonably safe and well tolerated. Researchers also report finding an increase in dopamine, the chemical lost as a result of neuronal destruction, and a decrease in neurotoxic proteins in the brain among […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, clinical trials, mind, neurodegenerative disease, neuroscience, Parkinson's disease

• Veterans Study Suggests Two Subtypes of Gulf War Illness

  WASHINGTON (December 12, 2019) — Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome that suggests a more complex illness that previously thought. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have shown the Gulf […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain research, Gulf War Illness, neuroimaging, neurology

• Palbociclib is Safe for Women with Advanced Breast Cancer Who Have Unique Gene Alteration

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities

• Remission of Follicular Lymphoma for Two-Plus Years Indicates Disease-Free Status that Could Be Lifelong

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, lymphoma

• Deeper Look at Tumor’s Genetic Mutations Challenges Current Precision Medicine Approach

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, precision medicine

• Georgetown’s Aykut Üren Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, faculty honors

• Nearly One-Quarter of Completed Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Results Are Not Published

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials

• Heightened Risk of Adverse Financial Changes Before Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

  WASHINGTON (October 25, 2019) — Prior to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a person in the early stages of the disease faces a heightened risk of adverse financial outcomes — a likely consequence of compromised decision-making when managing money, in addition to exploitation and fraud by others.  That is the disquieting conclusion of a study published in […]

  Category: News Release Tags: aging, Alzheimer's disease, health economics

• Brain Studies Show Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Gulf War Illness are Distinct Conditions

  CHICAGO (October 23, 2019) — Gulf War Illness (GWI) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) share symptoms of disabling fatigue, pain, systemic hyperalgesia (tenderness), negative emotion, sleep and cognitive dysfunction that are made worse after mild exertion (postexertional malaise). Now, neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have evidence, derived from human brain studies, that GWI and […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness, neuroscience