Written by Matt Windsor Current research coming out of the UAB and Children’s of Alabama Concussion Task Force • Read this story at www.uab.edu/news BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – At the moment, there is no medical test to diagnose a concussion — and there are few treatments to help the brain heal. There’s no reliable way to predict which patients will recover quickly from a blow to the head, and which ones will have lingering difficulty with […]
Posted ABC News A new study is putting the spotlight on the possible relationship between antidepressants taken during pregnancy and the risk of autism, although researchers emphasize the risk of untreated depression during pregnancy is a major concern. Researchers from University of Montreal published the study today in JAMA Pediatrics. They looked at 145,456 kids in Quebec, born between 1998 and 2009, to see if children of women who took antidepressants while pregnant were at […]
Congress Learns about the Developing Mind In early December, members of Congress, their staff, and members of the scientific community learned about what’s happening in the brains of their children, and in the case of some of the younger staff, themselves. At a recent Congressional Neuroscience Caucus briefing on the developing brain, Dr. Lisa Freund, Chief of Eunice Kennedy Striver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH, and Dr. Frances Jensen, Professor […]
IR-2015-130, Nov. 20, 2015 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced three changes to the proposed rules for new tax-favored Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) accounts for eligible disabled individuals that will be included in the final regulations when issued. These changes will make it easier for states to offer and administer ABLE programs. States, program administrators and other interested commenters identified the three areas for change this summer during a 90-day comment […]
Study Led by Researchers at Lewis Katz School of Medicine Reveals New Link Between Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease, Raising Hope for New Treatments Individuals with Down syndrome who survive into adulthood face the additional challenge of early-onset dementia, in which toxic amyloid plaques build up in the brain. The condition is strikingly similar to Alzheimer’s disease, and as new work led by researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) […]
