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RIVERSIDE, Calif. Astrocytes star-shaped cells in the brain that are actively involved in brain function may play an important role in stuttering, a study led by a University of California, Riverside, expert on stuttering has found. Our study suggests that treatment with the medication risperidone leads to increased activity of the striatum in persons who stutter, said Dr. Gerald A. Maguire, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the UCR School of Medicine, who led the study. The mechanism of risperidone s action in stuttering, in part, appears to involve increased metabolism or activity of astrocytes in the striatum.
Allergan, an ABBVie company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved BOTOX ® for the treatment of detrusor overactivity associated with a neurologic condition in pediatric patients 5 years of age and older who have an inadequate response to or are intolerant of anticholinergic medication. Neurogenic detrusor overactivity occurs when the spinal cord and bladder are not able to …
– Allergan, an ABBVie (NYSE: ABBV) company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BOTOX ® for the treatment of detrusor (bladder muscle) overactivity associated with a neurologic condition in pediatric patients 5 years of age and older who have an inadequate response to or are intolerant of anticholinergic medication.
COVID-19 Could Increase Dementia, Other Brain Disorders for Decades to Come
On 02/10/21 at 11:00 AM EST
COVID-19 could bring an increase in brain disorders including dementia, psychosis, chronic fatigue and Alzheimer s.
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Gabriel de Erausquin first began to worry about the long-term impact of COVID on the brain when he read early reports out of Wuhan, China last January that survivors had lost two of their give senses smell and taste. Worry turned to alarm when one of his medical assistants, a young mother who had come down with COVID-19 and had to be quarantined for a month, told de Erausquin, a neuroscientist, that she couldn t care less about being separated from her children.
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