neurology

CLEVELAND—Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is an incurable neurological disorder affecting motor neurons—nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement and breathing. Many ALS clinical trials, including those testing promising…

New center will target glial cells to treat neurological diseases Case Western Reserve University has established an Institute for Glial Sciences to advance research of glial cells and their critical role in the health and diseases of the nervous systems, including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s,…

David Birnkrant, professor emeritus of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, co-edited and co-authored a collection of articles on “Specialty Care for the Patient with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy” in 2018. The collection recently was included on a shortlist of highlights from 75 years of neurology…

Researchers find new hints that could explain how the disease spreads in human brains Case Western Reserve University researchers studying human prions—misfolded proteins that cause lethal and incurable diseases—have, for the first time, identified surface features responsible for the replication…

Heidi Moawad, clinical assistant professor of medicine, interviewed Nina Riggins, a neurologist and researcher at the University of California Headache Center, for a podcast titled “Innovations in Migraine Research: 6 Questions.” They discussed current treatments for migraines and…

$2.9M NIH grant focuses on transmission and diagnostic testing Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that can debilitate or kill their victims. The most common form of prion disease affecting humans is sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD). There are…

A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University and several other institutions published “Serum serotonin levels in patients with epileptic seizures” in Epilepsia. The aim of the study was to investigate epileptic seizure-induced changes in serum serotonin levels and whether there are…

Finding may shed added light on, offer treatment hope for brain-wasting diseases Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have synthesized the first artificial human prion, a dramatic development in efforts to combat a devastating form of brain disease that has so far eluded…

Nuria Lacuey-Lecumberri, assistant professor of neurology, was named the recipient of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) UCB Center for Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Research Pilot award. This pilot program awards grants to national and international…

Case Western Reserve University researchers modernizing cognitive skills testing to detect deficits, problem-solving strategies and more Psychologists have long used building blocks to assess cognitive skills. But researchers at Case Western Reserve University are embedding the blocks with…