Author Archives: WCNeuro

The brain is the final frontier for medicine. The brain industry will be truly revolutionary and provide healthcare with breakthrough innovations that will change the face of medicine forever. Scientists and Inventors will come up with brain based innovations that … Continue reading →

Systemic chemotherapy has been relatively ineffective in the treatment of malignant brain tumors even though systemic chemotherapy drugs are small molecules that can readily extravasate across the porous blood-brain tumor barrier of malignant brain tumor microvasculature. Small molecule systemic chemotherapy … Continue reading →

The report by EnteroMedics CEO Mark Knudson that an unanticipated therapeutic effect in the control arm of that company’s recent Empower study may have been the reason the trial failed to reach its efficacy endpoints [see article, in Neurotech Business … Continue reading →

As Arthur Schopenhauer said (1788-1860) “There are three steps in the revelation of any truth: first, it is ridiculed; in the second, resisted; in the third, it is considered self-evident”. Considering telepsychiatry and according to our experience, we have no … Continue reading →

The new brain concept is based on two discoveries: the discovery of the neural network computational principle and the discovery of the generic functional organization of neural centers like Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) that control automatic motor behaviors in animals. … Continue reading →

We propose this blog to debate different area of neuropsychologic rehabilitation in patients with brain diseases. It is suggested that measures of executive functioning and verbal memory were related to measures of functional outcome. Furthermore, cognitive dysfunction can affects strongly … Continue reading →

Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is implicated in the physiologic control of a number of functions such as regulation of appetite, control of mood and body temperature, stress responses and activity of H-PA axis. The neurotransmitter has long been regarded to play … Continue reading →

Constant exposure to low levels of natural background radiation from different materials present in the environment is a matter of concern for human health. Four decades of genomic, cellular, animal and human data have shown that low-dose ionizing radiation stimulates … Continue reading →