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Nearly One-Quarter of Completed Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Results Are Not Published
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw
WASHINGTON (October 23, 2019) — Georgetown neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a “crash in visual processing” — a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be consciously aware of stimuli that our brain recognized. In the Journal of Vision (DOI 10.1167/19.12.20), investigators describe what can occur […]
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Novel Agent Flips on ‘Garbage Disposal’ in Neurons, Eliminating Toxic Brain Proteins in Mice
CHICAGO (October 22, 2019) — Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center say they have developed and tested an agent that reduces the buildup of toxic proteins in animal models of both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and improves cognitive and motor behavior. The team presented their findings about the agent, CM101 (also known as BK40143), in […]
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Exposure to Environmental PCBs Impairs Brain Function in Mice
CHICAGO (October 22, 2019) — Human-made toxic chemicals that linger indefinitely in the environment disrupt the performance of critical helper cells in the mouse brain, leading to impaired function over long-term exposures, say neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center. Their study, believed to be the first to test polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in astrocytes — cells […]
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Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer Influenced by Dual Action of Genes and RNA
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Experts Show U.S. Foreign Policy Gains from a Presidential Pandemics Effort
WASHINGTON (October 10, 2019) — Analysis from leading researchers shows there could be significant benefits from a presidentially led initiative focused on combatting pandemics. With the 2020 presidential race under way, the researchers provide new evidence on the potential for a proactive U.S. foreign policy effort to halt current pandemics, prevent new outbreaks from becoming […]
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Virtual Review of Cancer Clinical Trial Treatment Options Quicker Than Conventional Methods
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Finding Upends Theory about the Cerebellum’s Role in Reading and Dyslexia
WASHINGTON (October 9, 2019) — New brain imaging research debunks a controversial theory about dyslexia that can impact how it is sometimes treated, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists say. The cerebellum, a brain structure traditionally considered to be involved in motor function, has been implicated in the reading disability known as developmental dyslexia. However, this […]
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