Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic

What prompts neurological disorders in children is very complex, notes Frederica Perera.

This imperative is even more pronounced when it comes to sensitive neurological procedures.

For a year, he was Director of the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol.

Still more are affected by neurological disorders that don t rise to the level of clinical diagnosis.

Research increasingly suggests that airborne contaminants can have subtle but significant effects on early neurological development and behavior.

Research increasingly suggests that airborne contaminants can have subtle but significant effects on early neurological development and behavior, she says.

Then, two months before Sakamoto s birth, an outbreak of an unknown neurological illness was first reported among the area s fishing families.

on the neurological causes of dyslexia in children that I encountered a startling fact that I'd like to share with you all today.

There is controversy over whether the bornavirus, previously thought to cause neurological diseases in horses, could be responsible for psychiatric illnesses in humans.

Experience beamers, I call them, will put their whole flow of sensory experiences in the neurological correlates of their emotions out on the Internet.

But a significant and growing body of research suggests that exposure to environmental pollutants is implicated in the disturbing rise in children s neurological disorders.

If it were understood, it could lead to cures for many crippling diseases, both neurological (like Parkinson s and Alzheimer s) and degenerative (including those, like cancer, associated with aging).

Chemicals that prompt hormonal changes are increasingly suspected to have neurological effects, says Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program.

Moreover, Gurian argues that men tend to rear children differently from women for similarly neurological reasons, encouraging more risk taking and independence and with less awareness of the details of their nurture.

Studies of humans with damage to the amygdala, due to neurological disease or as a consequence of surgery to control epilepsy, show that our brains also work in this same basic way.

Pasha Kyshtymov, a lifelong patient of a psycho neurological internat on the border of Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions of Siberia, cannot communicate through speech, but had no problems learning to express himself through photography.

And another program called Statistical Probability Mapping then performs mathematical calculations to determine whether any of these abnormalities are clinically significant, allowing us to provide a much more accurate neurological diagnosis of the child's symptoms.

We believe that, using gene therapy and a therapeutic virus, it may be possible to make target human neurons temporarily susceptible to the ultrasound signal in a clinical setting for certain neurological treatments, said Chalasani.

For example, explains Deborah Kurrasch, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary s Cumming School of Medicine who specializes in neurological research, during the early stages of brain development when cells are becoming neurons timing determines destination.

When used, additional caution is required in neonates midazolam should not be used for longer than 72 hours due to risks of tachyphylaxis, and the possibility of development of a benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome, as well as neurological complications.

Visually, through images, for example... At the psycho neurological internat in Siberia, I noticed one patient's amazing way of catching other people's peculiarities he was showing them with his hands and facial expressions, thus explaining what he wanted to say.

Studies of humans with damage to the amygdala, due to neurological disease or as a consequence of surgery to control epilepsy, show that our brains also work in this same basic way. The implication of these findings is that early on (perhaps since dinosaurs ruled the earth, or even before) evolution hit upon a way of wiring the brain to produce responses likely to keep an organism alive in dangerous situations.