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• Early diagnosis lets patients look Alzheimer's square in the face...
• "Our data strongly suggest that genetic factors make a substantial contribution to autism, but that does not mean that the entire cause of autism is genetic. Together with many other studies, our study argues that genetic factors play a very important role in autism, while leaving open a role for other, environmental factors..."
• "Unidentified traumatic brain injury is an unrecognized major source of social and vocational failure."
• Meningitis is far more common in children than is encephalitis.
• Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, representing 60 percent of all dementias in those over 65.
• The Epilepsy Therapy Project will provide almost US$300,000 over the next two years to a group of researchers from leading Australian institutions including the University of Newcastle.
• Headache is the seventh leading reason for outpatient physician visits in the United States.
• Severe septicaemia including meningococcal septicaemia - the blood poisoning form of meningitis - is a major cause of death and disability in children.
• Initial hopes for improved narcolepsy medicines that replace hypocretin have faded, because studies showed that the molecule did not readily cross the blood-brain barrier.
• Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $2.4 Million For Validation Of Nine Promising Therapeutic Targets For Parkinson's Disease.
• A long-term study provides important clues that may help doctors predict the clinical course of some individuals’ multiple sclerosis.
• "We found that we could pick up seizure activity in most of the patients using aEEG monitors that included the raw signals."
• Chemotherapy, while effective at treating tumors, often harms healthy cells as well, leading to severe side effects especially in young children.

Autism

Autism is classified as one of the pervasive developmental disorders of the brain. It is not a disease. People with classical autism show three types of symptoms: impaired social interaction, problems with verbal and nonverbal communication, and unusual or severely limited activities and interests. These symptoms can vary in severity. In addition, people with autism often have abnormal responses to sounds, touch, or other sensory stimulation. Symptoms usually appear during the first three years of childhood and continue through life. Studies of people with autism have found abnormalities in several regions of the brain, which suggest that autism results from a disruption of early fetal brain development. Autism affects an estimated 10 to 20 of every 10,000 people, depending on diagnostic criteria used, and strikes males about four times more often than females.