Avicena Clarifies Description Of Creatine Versus PD-02, Company's Lead Drug Compound Used In NIH Phase III Clinical Trial In Parkinson's Disease
Avicena Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AVGO), a late stage biotechnology company focused on commercializing its proprietary cellular energy modulation technology, wishes to clarify the difference between its compound, PD-02, being used in the Phase III Parkinson's disease trial announced on March 22, 2007, versus a common (nutritional supplement) form of creatine.
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Drug Choices for Different Seizures Get Clarification
LIVERPOOL, England -- Lamotrigine (Lamictal) should be the drug of choice for patients with partial-onset epileptic seizures while valproate (Depacon) heads the list for generalized and unclassifiable seizures, two major studies have found.
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Experience affects new neuron survival
Experience in the early development of new neurons in specific brain regions affects their survival and activity in the adult brain, new research shows. How these new neurons store information about these experiences may explain how they can affect learning and memory in adults. A team of scientists headed by Fred Gage, PhD, of the Salk Institute, observed that experience enhances the survival of new neurons in a brain area called the dentate gyrus, and that more of these new neurons were activated when exposed to the same experience later. This change in function may be a mechanism for long-term memory. The findings appear in the March 21 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.......
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Robotic brace for stroke recovery
At age 32, Maggie Fermental suffered a stroke that left her right side paralyzed. After a year and a half of conventional treatment with minimal results, she tried a new kind of robotic treatment developed by MIT engineers. A study to appear in the April 2007 issue of the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation shows that the device, which helped Fermental, also had positive results for five other severe stroke patients in a pilot clinical trial........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Energy supplement for Parkinson's disease
Whether a supplement used by athletes to boost energy levels and build muscle can slow progression of Parkinsons disease is the focus of a North American study. Creatine, under study for many neurological and neuromuscular diseases such as Lou Gehrigs and muscular dystrophy, may help Parkinsons patients by giving an energy boost to dying cells, says Dr. Kapil D. Sethi, neurologist and director of the Movement Disorders Program at the Medical College of Georgia........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

On Wandering Minds
Do your thoughts stray from your work or studies? Do you catch yourself making to-do lists when your attention should be elsewhere? Welcome to the club. College students reported mind-wandering almost one-third of the time in their daily lives, as per a new study led by faculty and graduate students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The study would be reported in the recent issue of Psychological Science........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

why we smell better when we sniff?
Unlike most of our sensory systems that detect only one type of stimuli, our sense of smell works double duty, detecting both chemical and mechanical stimuli to improve how we smell, as per University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine scientists in the recent issue of Nature Neuroscience. This finding, plus the fact that both types of stimuli produce reaction in olfactory nerve cells, which control how our brain perceives what we smell, explains why we sniff to smell something, and why our sense of smell is synchronized with inhaling........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Sleep Disorders Can Impair Children's IQs
Three decades ago, medical researchers began sounding the alarm about how lead exposure causes IQ deficits in children. Today, scientists at the University of Virginia Health System say children with sleep disorders can face similar risks of intellectual impairment. UVa scientists have been studying sleep disturbances in children with enlarged tonsils and adenoids for the past seven years. In a recent study, they discovered that youngsters who snore nightly scored significantly lower on vocabulary tests than those who snore less often........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Vanishing Neurons Of Adolescence
Scientists at the University of Illinois have observed that adolescence is a time of remodeling in the prefrontal cortex, a brain structure dedicated to higher functions such as planning and social behaviors. The study of rats observed that both males and females lose neurons in the ventral prefrontal cortex between adolescence and adulthood, with females losing about 13 percent more neurons in this brain region than males........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Light-activated compound silences nerves
Brain activity has been in comparison to a light bulb turning on in the head. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have reversed this notion, creating a drug that stops brain activity when a light shines on it. The unexpected result, reported online in Nature Neuroscience, turned several lights on in researchers' heads........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Severe PTSD damages children's brains
Severe stress can damage a child's brain, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The scientists observed that children with post-traumatic stress disorder and high levels of the stress hormone cortisol were likely to experience a decrease in the size of the hippocampus - a brain structure important in memory processing and emotion........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Computer Model Mimics Neural Processes
For the first time, MIT researchers have applied a computer model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task: recognizing the objects in a busy street scene. The scientists were pleasantly surprised at the power of this new approach. "People have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long time," said Tomaso Poggio, the Eugene McDermott Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. "That was Alan Turing's original motivation in the 1940s. But in the last 50 years, computer science and AI (artificial intelligence) have developed independently of neuroscience.".......
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Association Between Gene And Intelligence
A team of scientists, led by psychiatric geneticists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has gathered the most extensive evidence to date that a gene that activates signaling pathways in the brain influences one kind of intelligence. They have confirmed a link between the gene, CHRM2, and performance IQ, which involves a person's ability to organize things logically........
Medicine World Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:36:03 GMT

Sarasota's Roskamp Institute Announces Positive Safety Data In Human Clinical Study For Alzheimer's Disease
The Roskamp Institute announced today that it has received positive preliminary results in its major clinical study that is testing a promising new drug application for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The clinical study, which was first announced in September, is the first human clinical study conducted by a Florida-based research institute as a result of its own original research.
Medicalnewstoday.com Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT

Avicena Announces Patient Enrollment In National Institutes Of Health (NIH) Phase III Parkinson's Disease Trial
Avicena Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AVGO), a late stage biotechnology company focused on commercializing its proprietary cellular energy modulation technology, announced today that its National Institutes of Health (NIH) collaborator and sponsor, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), initiated patient enrollment in a Phase III efficacy trial of PD-02, Avicena Group's lead Parkinson's disease (PD) drug candidate.
Medicalnewstoday.com Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT

Research Finds Newer Drug For Partial Epilepsy Is Superior But Old Tops New For Generalised Seizures
New research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research's Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme suggests that a newer drug for treatment of partial epilepsy is clinically superior to the existing drug of first choice for the condition, while an older drug is better than new for treatment of generalised seizures.
Medicalnewstoday.com Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT

Enterovirus 71 Infection May Delay Childhood Neurodevelopment
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Enterovirus 71 infection in children associated with central nervous system involvement, and especially cardiopulmonary failure, may stall neurodevelopment and cognitive function, researchers here reported.
Med Page Today Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:35:22 -0400

Brain Damage Demonstrates Emotional Nature Of Moral Decisions
US neuroscientists have demonstrated that moral decisions such as whether you would kill one person in order to save many others are strongly influenced by a part of the brain that involves emotion.The study is published in the journal Nature.
Medicalnewstoday.com Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:00:00 PDT

Increased Depression, Burden, Reported In Family Caregivers Of ALS Patients
Family caregivers of people with ALS, most often spouses, are likely to become depressed and feel burdened, but that's not the case for the people they are caring for, according to a study published in the March 20, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Medicalnewstoday.com Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT

A Bitter Pill For A Sugar-Coated Killer
Dr Fritz Mühlschlegel, a Reader at the Department of Biosciences, University of Kent, and Consultant Medical Microbiologist in the East Kent Hospitals Trust, has been awarded £400k by the Medical Research Council to combat fungal brain infection.The fungus Cryptococcus neoformans can infect the human brain leading to disease (cryptococcosis) that is usually fatal if untreated. It is 'dressed to kill' with a sugar coat that protects it against attack by the human immune system.
Medicalnewstoday.com Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT

Novel Study Sheds Light On Imitation Learning
What is the very best way to learn a complex task? Is it practice, practice, practice, or is watching and thinking enough to let you imitate a physical activity, such as skiing or ballet? A new study from Brandeis University published this week in the Journal of Vision unravels some of the mysteries surrounding how we learn to do things like tie our shoes, feed ourselves, or perform dazzling dance steps.
Medicalnewstoday.com Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:00:00 PDT

AANS: Spine Spinal Cord Injury Rates Rise Among Older Americans
PHILADELPHIA -- Spinal cord injuries among patients 70 and older have increased fivefold over the past three decades, researchers here reported.
Med Page Today Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:19:23 -0400

Study Compares Benefits Of Surgical Treatments For Degenerative Spinal Disease - Higher Success Rates Shown In Procedures Using Plate System
Patients with serious degenerative spinal disease, a painful condition in which the normal function of spinal vertebrae breaks down, are presented with what can be a confusing array of surgical options. A NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center study looks at five spinal fusion approaches, finding that the use of an anterior cervical plate system, a device used to hold the vertebrae together, significantly increases the fusion rate, a measure of the procedure's success.
Medicalnewstoday.com Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:00:00 PDT

Lipitor (atorvastatin) As A Treatment For Spinal Cord Injuries Following Trauma
In a multidisciplinary investigation led by Inderjit Singh, Ph.D, a breakthrough has been made in relation to the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI). Set for publication in the April issue of the Journal of Neurochemistry (101, 182-200), the study investigates the efficacy of atorvastatin (AT), commonly known as Lipitor, as a treatment for spinal cord injuries following trauma.
Medicalnewstoday.com Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:00:00 PDT

Alzheimer's Disease Prevalence Rates Rise To More Than Five Million In The United States
The Alzheimer's Association today reports that in 2007 there are now more than 5 million people in the United States living with Alzheimer's disease. This number includes 4.9 million people over the age of 65 and between 200,000 and 500,000 people under age 65 with early onset Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This is a 10 percent increase from the previous prevalence nationwide estimate of 4.5 million.
Medicalnewstoday.com Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT

Atherothrombosis Seen as Prelude to Major Cardiovascular Event
PARIS -- Atherosclerotic arterial disease seems to predict relatively high rates of myocardial infarction, stroke, or cardiovascular death within a year, according to a large, international registry study.
Med Page Today Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:42:44 -0400

Alzheimer's Prevalence Tops Five Million in U.S.
CHICAGO -- More than five million older Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, a 10% increase in prevalence from just five years ago, according to an estimate commissioned by the Alzheimer's Association.
Med Page Today Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:54:21 -0400

Bisphosphonate Decreases Hip Fractures in Parkinson's Disease
TAGAWA, Japan -- Low-dose bisphosphonate therapy may help reduce the high rate of hip fractures among men with Parkinson's disease, Japanese researchers found.
Med Page Today Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:02:20 -0400

Genes May Contribute to Hip Graft Failure
MANCHESTER, England -- Failures of total hip replacements are significantly more likely to occur when patients carry variants in genes encoding for collagen breakdown and the vitamin D receptor, according to investigators here.
Med Page Today Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:22:37 -0400

Silent Strokes Linked to Sleep Apnea
TOKYO -- Obstructive sleep apnea patients have a high rate of silent brain infarctions that can be seen by magnetic resonance imaging, according to researchers here.
Med Page Today Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:11:45 -0400


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