Voice Disturbance Analysis Detects Parkinson’s

by Ket Patel | Jul 29, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders

Evidence that voice disturbances might be an additional clue to making a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease was recently supported by a study conducted by a mathematician and collaborators from Intel Corp. Max Little, Ph.D., a mathematician now at the Massachusetts...

Brain Tumors Glow ‘Like Lava’ With New Surgical Probe

by Ket Patel | Jul 28, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Neuro-Oncology

Neurosurgeons can now follow a glowing road map that points the way to cancerous brain tissue, leading thereby to a more effective surgical excision. Researchers at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover,...

BG-12 Cuts Relapse Rate, Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis

by Ket Patel | Jul 28, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis

Full results of the second phase III trial of dimethyl fumarate in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis show that the investigational drug significantly reduces annualized relapse rates and MRI lesions over the course of 2 years The results of the...

MCI in Parkinson’s Linked to Frontostriatal Dysfunction

by Ket Patel | Jul 26, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders

Parkinson’s disease patients with mild cognitive impairment have dysfunctional circuitry in brain networks involving the right dorsal caudate nucleus and the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex, compared with unaffected Parkinson’s patients, according to a prospective...

Suicidality Tied to ‘Self-Disorders’ in Early Schizophrenia

by Ket Patel | Jul 25, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Schizophrenia

Among patients having their first episode of schizophrenia, suicidality is clearly associated with an altered sense of self, or what some experts have termed “self-disorders,” a study of 49 adult patients shows. Self-disorders are anomalous subjective...