Laura Stiles

Mothers who are both obese and have gestational diabetes have a significantly higher risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder.

Rest for longer than a day is critical for allowing the brain to recover from short-term injuries and reset neural networks after a concussion..

Eating abnormalities in frontotemporal dementia result from a network of brain regions, rather than 1or 2 specific structures.

Middle-age and older adults with high levels of depression are at greater risk of experiencing heart disease or stroke.

The CCDG and CMG programs aim to discover the genes and genomic variants that cause or contribute to various diseases.

Only about 1 out of 3 respondents aged 45 and younger said they would be very likely to go to the hospital.

Gabapentin enacarbil (Gen) administered once daily to patients with severe primary RLS significantly improved sleep, mood, pain, and quality of life.

The researchers calculated that for every hour of delay before reperfusion, the absolute risk difference for a good outcome is reduced by 6%.

More robust studies suggest that the prevalence of olfactory dysfunction is significant, ranging from 20% to 45% in the MS population.

CPAP has a much higher probability of being the most strongly associated with SBP reduction.

8.9% of men and 6.8% of women with congenital heart disease experienced at least one stroke before age 65.

The percentage of patients with normal cognitive functions after a stroke was more than twice as high in bilinguals as in monolinguals.

In women with NMOSD, 42.9% of pregnancies ended in miscarriage compared with 12-24% in the general population.

Researchers have developed small, fully implantable devices that may one day be used to block pain signals before they reach the brain.

Worsening scores on the smell test were associated with greater risk of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease dementia.

Researchers have linked the Jagged1 gene to a much milder form of muscular dystrophy in golden retrievers.

Researchers found that brain tumor mutations could be detected from ctDNA in cerebrospinal fluid.

Veterans randomized to mindfulness-based stress reduction reported greater reductions in pain, fatigue, and memory/concentration problems.

Loss of consciousness during subarachnoid hemorrhage is associated with a 2.8-fold increase in death and poor functional outcome at 1 year.

Antiplatelet therapy before stroke treatment with IV tPA actually improved functional outcomes.

The pain thresholds of participants positively correlated with their opioid receptor availability.

Due to new diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS, the NIH is renewing efforts to understand the disease.

Researchers found no significant difference in cognitive function in women who took the estrogen drug raloxifene.

Children with hospital-diagnosed pertussis have a slightly higher risk of epilepsy than the general population.

A mean of 15 HD-tDCS sessions was found to reduce fibromyalgia pain by 50%.

Scientists have found that the molecule GDF10 triggers axon growth and reconnection after stroke.

Treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage after thrombolysis did not result in reduced mortality or expansion of the hematoma.

For patients with probable dementia, health care costs for the last 5 years of life were higher than cancer and heart disease.

Peripheral nerve stimulation reduced pain scores and the number of headache days per month.

An SCS system that delivered 10-kHz high-frequency therapy was nearly twice as effective at relieving pain as traditional low-frequency SCS.