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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.

Dementia Related Illnesses

Dementia is a term used to describe a general decline of more than one cognitive function. Dementia-related illnesses are a class of diseases that have such a generalized, deleterious effect on the brain that they usually result in dementia. Most of these diseases also have an incidious onset of symptoms and a progressive loss of intellectual skills. The most common dementia related illnesses are Alzheimer's disease and Multiple-infarction dementia. Some CNS infections also cause dementia, such as Jakob-Creutzfelt disease and viral encephalitis.