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Doctors Detail Unexpected Recoveries from Long-Term Coma After Cardiac Arrest

May 13, 2020

Neurologists traditionally have expected that patients who remain in coma after cardiac arrest have almost no chance of making a meaningful recovery if they fail to emerge from coma within a week. But a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and NYU Grossman School of Medicine neurologists suggests that a small but significant fraction of such patients can recover even after much longer periods of coma...

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February 24, 2020

The short-term risk of a second stroke following an initial minor stroke is roughly 60 percent higher for black patients compared with white patients, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers.

In the study, published Feb. 24 in JAMA Neurology, the researchers re-analyzed the results of a stroke prevention trial conducted at 269 sites worldwide, including...

January 30, 2020

Immune cell activity in the brain differs between males and females in ways that may explain why some neurodegenerative diseases affect the sexes differently, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.

The study, published Dec. 23 in Nature Neuroscience, compared brain-resident immune cells called microglia in male and female mice. Microglia in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders...

January 30, 2020

January 8, 2020

Decreased amounts of a neurotransmitter called GABA, whose main function is to reduce activity in the brain, leads to changes in the number of neurons in the developing brain and alters signaling between them, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings could lead to an improved understanding of autism and sensory processing disorders.

There are two kinds of neurons in the cortex: Excitatory neurons “fire” and pass signals on to other neurons and...

January 6, 2020

Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have built the first global database of clinical trials testing a rapidly expanding approach to cancer treatment that involves genetically modifying immune cells to recognize specific targets on a patient’s cancer cells and attack them. By analyzing the approach, called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies, the scientists designed a “therapeutic roadmap” that identifies all current therapies as well as additional cancers that can be treated with them....

November 21, 2019

Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute and the Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been recognized as a 2019 Distinguished Scientist by the American Heart Association for his outstanding contributions to cardiovascular, stroke and dementia research.

The American Heart Association (AHA) honored Dr....

November 4, 2019

Dr. Giuseppe Faraco publishes a paper titled, "Dietary salt promotes cognitive impairment through tau phosphorylation" in Nature, 2019 Oct 23. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1688-z.

“Our study proposes a new mechanism by which salt mediates cognitive impairment and also provides further evidence of a link between dietary habits and cognitive function,” This study finds that...

October 23, 2019

A high-salt diet may negatively affect cognitive function by causing a deficiency of the compound nitric oxide, which is vital for maintaining vascular health in the brain, according to a new study in mice from Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. When nitric oxide levels are too low, chemical changes to the protein tau occur in the brain, contributing to dementia.

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October 18, 2019

In the roughly 100 years since Alois Alzheimer first described the devastating neurodegenerative disease that now bears his name, scientists have developed an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the brain. Yet as incidence of the disease continues to rise in an aging population, effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease remain elusive.

Leading experts in neurodegenerative disease gathered on Oct. 4 at the...

Doctors Detail Unexpected Recoveries from Long-Term Coma After Cardiac Arrest

African American Patients Have Higher Risk of Stroke Recurrence Compared with White Patients

Sex Differences in Susceptibility to Neurodegenerative Disease May Arise From Differences in Brain Immune Cells

Brain Immune Cells, Neurodegeneration Differ in Males, Females

Developmental Deficits in GABA Lead to Abnormal Brain Rhythms in Sensory Areas

Scientists Build the First Global Database and Roadmap for CAR Therapy Clinical Trials

Dr. Costantino Iadecola Named Distinguished Scientist by the American Heart Association

A high-salt diet may negatively affect cognitive function

High-Salt Diet Promotes Cognitive Impairment Through the Alzheimer-Linked Protein Tau

Racing Toward a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease