by Ket Patel | Sep 6, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Headache/Migraine
Secondary headaches in pregnant women are likely to be associated with an additional medical complaint, according to a retrospective study of patients who presented to a tertiary-care center. A team led by Dr. Matthew S. Robbins of Montefiore Headache Center in the...
by Ket Patel | Sep 5, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Schizophrenia
The rs1344706 SNP on the ZNF804a gene was found to correlate with the volume of cortical white matter in schizophrenia patients and healthy control subjects, according to a report published Sept. 3 in Archives of General Psychiatry. This SNP also correlated with...
by Ket Patel | Sep 4, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Stroke
Oral relaxin therapy resulted in significantly improved cognitive and functional recovery in poststroke patients participating in a randomized controlled trial. “We speculate that in the near future, relaxin hormone could represent a new therapeutic and...
by Ket Patel | Sep 3, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders
The promise of shorter time to sleep, longer sleep duration, and fewer side effects associated with the experimental sleep drug suvorexant has sleep medicine clinicians and their patients eagerly anticipating the approval of the first-in-class agent. Suvorexant’s...
by Ket Patel | Sep 3, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders
Nocturnal sleep enhances working memory training in patients with Parkinson’s disease but not in those with Lewy body dementia, results from a novel study demonstrated. The observed performance improvements “are striking because working memory capacity is...