Neurology
12 Days of Research at Mass General: Why Autistic Individuals Avoid Eye Contact
In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017. June 2017: More Than Meets the Eye: Researchers Find Eye Contact Causes Stress and Overactivation in the Brains of Autistic Individuals They…
Read More12 Days of Research at Mass General: Do Alzheimer’s Patients Suffer Silent Seizures?
In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.
Read More12 Days of Research at Mass General: Lack of Sleep Can Impact Childhood Behavior
In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.
Read More12 Days of Research at Mass General: She Watches Worms While They Sleep
In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.
Read MoreGatchel Untangles the Causes of Mood and Anxiety Symptoms and Loss of Brain Function in Aging Populations
Mass General geriatric psychiatrist Jennifer Gatchel MD, PhD, is working to unravel the connections between mental illness and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Read MoreStudy Predicts Alzheimer’s Cases to Double in US by 2060. How Mass General Researchers are Fighting Back.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released some unsettling new estimates about the number of individuals affected with Alzheimer’s disease this week—and how that number is expected to skyrocket in the near future.
Read MoreNew Screening Technique Makes Waves in Quest for Earlier Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
How could the study of patients under anesthesia lead to a new way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease? It could all come down to brainwaves.
Read MoreStudy Identifies New Targets for Huntington’s Disease Research
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal genetic disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain.
Read MoreKamryn Eddy Finds Hope for Patients with Eating Disorders
The people we encounter early in life can often have a profound impact on our future. For Massachusetts General Hospital psychologist Dr. Kamryn Eddy, a childhood friend influenced her career trajectory.
Read MoreHow a 3D Model of Alzheimer’s Disease is Providing New Hope in the Search for Treatments
Reigning in Alzheimer’s disease continues to be a challenge — more than 10 million families are affected by this degenerative neurological disease, and the number of patients dying from the disease has increased 68 percent since 2010. In the past decade, attempts at developing drugs to slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease have…
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