Neurodegenerative Disorders

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The Past and Promise of Deep Brain Stimulation

A new treatment for Parkinson's disease and other disorders arises from an outbreak of contaminated street drugs — and years of painstaking brain research.

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Speeding Up Brain Signals

Your brain’s electrical signals travel from node to node in their journey along nerve axons.

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Building Memories

A protein involved in long-term memory formation may hold a clue to understanding Alzheimer’s disease.

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Face Blindness: How the Brain Perceives — and Sometimes Fails to Perceive — Human Faces

Facial recognition is a key social skill, but one in 50 people have trouble recognizing familiar faces.

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Brain Disease in Europe

Recent studies on the prevalence of brain diseases and disorders provide a stunning picture of mental health in Europe.

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Forget Me Not

Many people have a loved one affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Hear a young girl’s story of her grandfather’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and learn more about this disease.

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It's All in Your Mind

Teach your students about brain anatomy and function, learning and memory, degenerative disorders, and more with this curriculum unit.

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Diagnosing a Zombie

Can we use human medicine to figure out what makes zombies... zombies?

Is every dementia the same as Alzheimer's disease?

Dementia is a description of any progressive disorder that takes away a person’s cognitive and functional abilities.

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What is brain plasticity, and can it help relieve psychiatric or degenerative brain disorders?

Brain plasticity (from the Greek word ‘plastos’ meaning molded) refers to the extraordinary ability of the brain to modify its own structure and function following changes within the body or in the external environment.

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Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Breakthroughs—and the Need for More Research

The discovery in the late 1950s that the level of dopamine was decreased in the brains of Parkinson’s patients was followed in the 1960s by successful treatment with the drug levodopa, which is converted to dopamine in the brain. This historical event is one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in the field of neurology.

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Alzheimer's Disease

One of the most frightening and devastating of all neurological disorders is the dementia that can occur in the elderly. The most common form of this illness is Alzheimer’s disease.

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

This progressive disorder strikes approximately 5,600 Americans annually, with an average survival time of just two to five years from symptom onset.

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