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Variation in Ankyrin 3 gene shows strong association with bipolar disorder
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40753
The largest genetic analysis of its kind to date for bipolar disorder has implicated machinery involved in the balance of sodium and calcium in brain cells. Researchers supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health, found an association between the disorder and variation in two genes that make components of channels that manage the flow of the elements into and out of cells, including neurons.

New model for studying the genetics of Angelman syndrome
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40734
A model for studying the genetics of Angelman syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes mental retardation and other symptoms in one out of 15,000 births, has been developed by biologists at The University of Texas at Austin.
Managing diabetes at school
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40730
The first ever UK study to seek the opinions of young people with type 1 diabetes, regarding managing their diabetes care at school, uncovered a number of significant misconceptions about the condition.
Molecular switch provides insights into a form of altered brain activity occurring in schizophrenia
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40692
People with schizophrenia have an alteration in a pattern of brain electrical activity associated with learning and memory. Now, researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Sweden's Karolinska Institute have identified in mouse brain tissue a molecular switch that, when thrown, increases the strength of this electrical pattern. The researchers found that adding the brain chemical Neuregulin-1 to the brain tissue boosted the electrical signals that the tissue generated.
Window of opportunity for newly diagnosed diabetics
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40681
According to health researchers in the U.S., people who lose weight soon after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are far more likely to reach satisfactory blood glucose and blood pressure goals.
Medulloblastoma in children - two studies find clues to treatment
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40663
Medulloblastoma is one of the most common and most malignant brain tumours among children and teenagers. These tumours grow very rapidly, and fifty percent of patients in the long term die from the condition. The details of the processes that lead to the growth of these tumours have remained unknown until now.
Losing weight after diabetes diagnosis prevent related disease
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40644
People who lose weight soon after a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes have better control of their blood pressure and blood sugar, and are more likely to maintain that control even if they regain their weight, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in Diabetes Care, the American Diabetes Association journal.
Hypertension on Wheels program will focus on African Americans who have a greater risk for high blood pressure
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40619
The Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control (COSEHC), which is headquartered at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has received a $55,000 grant from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation to provide a mobile cardiovascular disease prevention program, Hypertension on Wheels, to Forsyth County residents.
Shocking death rate from diabetes revealed
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40610
Shocking new figures released in Britain show that diabetes accounts for more than 1 in 10 deaths in England.
Sexual dysfunction - The brain-body connection
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40581
When asked, everyone seems to agree that sex is an important part of life and that sexual health is important for one's overall well-being.

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