A new study suggests that head impacts experienced during contact sports such as football and hockey may worsen some college athletes' ability to acquire new information. (May 16, 2012)
New research shows that sleepwalking may be much more common in adults than previously thought and that having depression or anxiety may increase your likelihood of experiencing the condition. (May 15, 2012)
How well people with newly diagnosed epilepsy respond to their first drug treatment may signal the likelihood that they will continue to have more seizures, according to a study published in the May 9, 2012, online issue of Neurology®. (May 10, 2012)
The name change is part of an overall re-branding campaign as the organization repositions itself to become the world’s leader in raising money for research to cure brain diseases. (April 24, 2012)
Watch the Press Conference. (April 23, 2012)
GRAND PRIZE ($1,000 and a trip to New Orleans) Awarded by a panel of judges for the film exhibiting creativity in a technically polished presentation: The Astronaut’s Secret by Zach Jankovic. (April 22, 2012)
People who received injections of the multiple sclerosis drug interferon beta-1a soon after their first signs of possible MS were less likely to progress to clinically definite MS than people who switched to interferon beta-1a from placebo. (April 19, 2012)
A new study suggests there may be a starting point at which blows to the head or other head trauma suffered in combat sports start to affect memory and thinking abilities and can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in the brain. (April 18, 2012)
Daily physical exercise may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, even in people over the age of 80, according to a study published in the April 18, 2012, online issue of Neurology®. (April 18, 2012)
Results to be presented as part of the Emerging Science program (formerly known as Late-Breaking Science) at the AAN's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to 28. (April 17, 2012)
Research will be presented as part of the Emerging Science program (formerly known as Late-Breaking Science) at the AAN's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to April 28, 2012. (April 15, 2012)
Certain antidepressants appear to decrease depression in people with Parkinson’s disease without worsening motor problems, according to a study published in the April 11, 2012, online issue of Neurology® (April 11, 2012)
New research finds that a person’s memory declines at a faster rate in the two- and-a-half years before death than at any other time after memory problems first begin. (April 4, 2012)
A special educational session discussing the report will be held during the AAN's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans on Monday, April 23, 2012 from 12:30–1:30 p.m. (April 3, 2012)
IVIg is a type of immunotherapy that fights the misdirected immune system. (March 28, 2012)
A new study suggests that older people may have an increased risk of problems with memory and thinking abilities after being in the hospital. (March 21, 2012)
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