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Question: Which neurological diseases were formerly classified as psychiatric diseases? Epilepsy comes to mind as the most obvious example. As scientific knowledge of these diseases advances, they are moved from Psychiattry to Neurology. Will that be the end of Psychiatry?

Answer: Psychotic disorders.


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Children With Rare, Incurable Brain Disease Improve After Gene Therapy

Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) ? Using gene transfer techniques pioneered by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease.
 

Early signs of Parkinson's might be seen in colon

Fox News
Researchers examined tissue samples obtained during colon exams of people who later developed Parkinson's disease. The samples were taken several years before the patients showed symptoms of the neurological disorder. The cells in the patients' ...
 

Scientist

Children with rare, incurable brain disease improve after gene therapy
University of Florida
 

Researchers find new clues on ApoE4 affects Alzheimer's risk

pharmabiz.com
Common variants of the ApoE gene are strongly associated with the risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease, but the gene's role in the disease has been unclear. Now, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that ...
 

Angiochem Announces Presentations at Three Upcoming Conferences

MarketWatch (press release)
Angiochem is a clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing new breakthrough peptide drug conjugates that leverage the LRP-1 mediated pathway to cross the BBB to treat neurological diseases. These new EPiC compounds have the ...
 

Zee News

Gene behind autism, schizophrenia and obesity identified
Zee News
 

Neuren Holds Pre-IND Meeting on Proposed Rett Syndrome Clinical Trials With FDA

MarketWatch (press release)
About Rett Syndrome Rett Syndrome is a post-natal neurological disorder which occurs almost exclusively in females following apparently normal development for the first six months of life. Typically, between 6 to 18 months of age, patients experience a ...
 

Intellect Neurosciences Issues Letter to Shareholders

MarketWatch (press release)
... a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of disease-modifying therapeutic agents for the treatment of Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases, today issued the following Letter to Shareholders from Dr. Daniel Chain, ...
 

Care2.com

Poultry and Paralysis
Care2.com
 

Virus prompts quarantine at Douglas County horse facility

Our Colorado News
The horse was euthanized the next day, after showing severe neurological signs associated with the disease. The horse was transported to Douglas County from Estherville, Iowa, by a private owner through a transport company that delivered horses to ...