They say that there have been no new cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), the brain disorder.
Narcolepsy is a brain disorder characterised by sleep attacks and abnormal eye movement which affects up to one in a thousand people.
Why they occur still isn't clear, but specialists say they have recently begun to understand the migraine as a brain disorder and not a vascular disorder.
Compounds in preclinical tests target cystic fibrosis (30, 000 people plus a thousand new cases per year), Huntington's disease (30, 000 cases) and Rett syndrome, a rare inherited brain disorder.
This is a rare brain disorder that is caused by an autoimmune response which destroys the human equivalents of the ion channels that are affected in the mutant fruit fly.
In 2005, the company pulled its multiple sclerosis drug, Tysabri, from the market after a patient who was taking the drug in conjunction with another medication died of a rare brain disorder.
The two biotech firms have finished their safety review of Tysabri, the multiple sclerosis drug that the companies pulled from the market on Feb. 28 after it was linked to a rare brain disorder.
The most severe complication of measles - occurring in only one in 100, 000 cases - is a slowly-progressive brain disorder which does not normally show until some time after the original infection, causing seizures and even death.
But, oh, the yearning for simple-minded (so to speak) brain measures of disorder.
Other companies focus more specifically on the brain connection to arousal disorder.
The same study found that MdDS was a disorder of brain plasticity, which means that the neural pathways in the brain are unable to change in response to changes in behaviour or environment.
We dramatically increased funding for veterans health care: more care for women's veterans, for our wounded warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, traumatic brain injuries.
We don't know what will happen to funding for the programs designed to tackle this war's ugly twins, post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, not to mention the rising suicide epidemic among veterans and military family members.
If we think that we have to take care of our veterans when they come home -- and not just salute on Memorial Day but we actually have to work with folks who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Traumatic Brain Injury -- well, that requires services that are very labor-intensive and expensive.
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The unit found that the brain could be naturally vulnerable or even pre-disposed to the illness and could be more susceptible to an eating disorder following a physical change in the brain due to an event that happened in child hood.
He believes that psychiatric problems, such as schizophrenia, drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder generally arise from irregular brain development.
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Bales' attorneys have said that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and sustained a traumatic brain injury during a prior deployment to Iraq.
Biogen Idec and partner Elan had to pull their multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri after patients in clinical trials came down with a rare viral disorder that can lead to brain damage or death.
And despite the fact that hoarding has traditionally been seen as a symptom or subtype of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), brain activity in those who cannot de-clutter is also distinct from that of people with typical OCD, the study shows.
In addition to invisible wounds such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), which impact approximately one in six of our troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, service members and veterans have a heightened risk of substance use, unemployment, homelessness, and suicide.
Depression is another disorder that has recently been connected with brain inflammation.
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Schizophrenia is another disorder that involves information processing issues in the brain.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved deep-brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's and a movement disorder known as dystonia, and it is used to treat chronic pain and severe depression.
Jurors have failed to reach a verdict on whether a student who suffered a brain injury at a university fees protest was guilty of violent disorder.
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Bipolar disorder is a treatable condition that affects parts of the brain controlling emotion, thought and drive, the Mayo Clinic says.
Fewer brain imaging scans when people faint but show no other signs of neurological disorder.
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It means that we're going to provide services for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, that we're going to provide services for Traumatic Brain Injury that are the signature injuries of these recent wars.
The devices, which induce a seizure by delivering an electrical current to a patient's brain, are used to treat intractable cases of depression, as well as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders.
One alternative is a proposal that the NIMH has been developing for three years, called the Research Domain Criteria, which will move toward funding research that examines core biological features of illness shared by several disorders, such as problems in brain circuitry, rather than the current practice of focusing on symptoms specific to one disorder, according to Dr. Insel.
In other words, the first sign of the movement disorder associated with Parkinson's may be in the gut, not the brain.
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