While most people think of strokes affecting the brain, they can also affect the eye. Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is a rare form of acute ischemic stroke that occurs when blood flow is blocked to the main artery of the eye.
HealthTech Connex s Centre for Neurological Studies and the
NeuroCatch Platform (Surrey), the
Woodview Autism and Mental Health Services (Ontario). This partnership initiative emerged from Surrey s
Health and Technology District and is a product of decades of leading-edge research started by Dr. Catherine Mateer and Dr. Kimberly Kerns from the University of Victoria. It represents a major milestone in translating leading research into health technology benefits for Canadians and children around the globe.
Through a combination of research, clinical studies, innovation, and clinical expertise, the multi-year partnership enables collaborators to offer a video-game based treatment program for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Their goal is to help children with special needs reach their potential through the development and use of novel, evidence-based innovations, to improve neuro-behavioural outcomes in children with neurodevelopmental challenges.
Researchers led by radiologist Dr. Ilya Nasrallah, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania studied the MRI scans of 454 hypertensive patients who were 50 years or older and completed a brain MRI at baseline and then at four-year follow-up in July 2016. Among the two patient groups, they compared hippocampal volume, measures of Alzheimer s disease regional atrophy, posterior cingulate cerebral blood flow, and mean fractional anisotropy (FA) in the cingulum bundle. There is no consistent or clinically meaningful difference in magnetic resonance imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer s disease between intensive and standard blood pressure treatment, Nasrallah and colleagues wrote.
Vascular disease is a common comorbidity and may play a factor in initiating or accelerating hippocampal atrophy and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), characteristic biomarkers of Alzheimer s disease. Some studies have found that treating hypertension may reduce the incidence of Alzheimer s disease, but no clear m
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Researchers find new way to prevent attention deficits associated with Fragile X syndrome
Mount Sinai Researchers find a new way to prevent attention deficits associated with Fragile X, a leading genetic cause of autism, in an animal model.
Corresponding author:
Hirofumi Morishita, MD, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.
Bottom line:
The adolescent maturation of the frontal cortex is important for establishing cognitive function, and disruption of this process is associated with neurodevelopmental disorders.
This study uncovered a new molecular driver of frontal circuit maturation that is essential for cognitive function, and demonstrated, in an animal model, that this mechanism can be targeted to restore attention deficits caused by a leading genetic cause of autism.