What is functional neurological disorder and how might it affect employees? Hokman Wong breaks down everything occupational health teams need to know about this condition and the adjustments employees might benefit from.
Functional…
The boundaries between biology and technology are becoming blurred. Researchers at Linköping, Lund, and Gothenburg universities in Sweden have successfully grown electrodes in living tissue using the body's molecules as triggers. The…
Scientists from NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) identified three children with the condition, two siblings and an unrelated child. The three children all had issues with motor…
What causes two people from opposing political parties to have strongly divergent interpretations of the same word, image or event?
Take the word "freedom," for example, or a picture of the American flag, or even the 2020 U.S. presidential…
Combating Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has taken a leap toward reality. Neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Pennsylvania have…
When noninvasive sound waves break apart tumors, they trigger an immune response in mice. By breaking down the cell wall "cloak," the treatment exposes cancer cell markers that had previously been hidden from the body's defenses,…
Mahsa Shoaran of the Integrated Neurotechnologies Laboratory in the School of Engineering collaborated with Stéphanie Lacour in the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces to develop NeuralTree: a closed-loop neuromodulation…
Pune, Jan. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a new market research report titled, “Neurological Biomarkers Market by Type (Genomic, Metabolomic, Proteomic, Imaging), by Application (Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease,…
The announcement by celebrated singer Celine Dion in early December 2022 that she has stiff-person syndrome – a rare neurological disorder – stunned the world and led to an outpouring of support for the French Canadian star.
Until…