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Rare Disease Day 2019: Neuromyelitis Optica

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Rare diseases can be very complex to treat due to lack of understanding, little to no options for treatment and limited funding.
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Rare Disease Day 2019: Neuromyelitis Optica

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Rare diseases can be very complex to treat due to lack of understanding, little to no options for treatment and limited funding.
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How a Dedicated Mass General Team Became the First to Discover Circulating Brain Tumor Cells in the Blood

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Two researchers have teamed up to find a new way to diagnose and treat one of the most aggressive types of cancer: glioblastoma.
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Mass General Researcher Uses PET Imaging to Shed Light on the Inner Workings of the Brain

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Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are using advanced brain imaging techniques to learn more about how brain disorders function at a molecular and genetic level.
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Do Lifestyle Factors Such as Stress Affect the Onset and Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease?

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A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital are exploring the role of lifestyle factors such as stress in the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease.
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Mass General Researchers Identify Pattern of Brain Inflammation in Fibromyalgia Patients

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A team of researchers at Mass General, in collaboration with a team form the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, recently identified a pattern of brain inflammation in the brains of fibromyalgia patients
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Regulating Microglia’s Three Roles May Be the Key to Managing Inflammation in the Brain

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To help describe their various functions in the brain, scientists have classified microglia into three different roles: sentinels, warriors and nurturers.
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Research Shows that Memory Function in Adolescents Improves After 30 Days of Cannabis Abstinence

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Teens and young adults who abstained from cannabis use for a month improved performance on memory and cognitive function tests.
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Could a Light-Based Treatment be the Key to Treating Alzheimer’s Disease and other Brain Disorders?

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Can a light-based treatment called photobiomodulation help to treat degenerative brain diseases?
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Postdoc Profile: Michael VanElzakker, PhD

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Michael VanElzakker, PhD, is a neuroscientist at Mass General who is using brain scans to learn more about chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Mass General Researcher Explores Links Between Sleep and Disease

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Even though we sleep so much of our life, we don’t know exactly what goes on in our brain when we sleep. But genetic studies can point a clear path for further investigation into the role of sleep.
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Event Highlights Progress on Brain Disease Research

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Determined collaboration and groundbreaking technology have led to exciting advances in efforts to solve the challenges of brain diseases, researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerat
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