Neurodegenerative disorders: the Glia way forward

Neurodegenerative disorders: the Glia way forward

The realization that inflammation can affect the brain is not a new one, and many diseases of the CNS, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), have been shown to clearly respond to agents that target the immune system at one level or another. However, it is only more recently that the immune system has been shown to play a role in the normal development and homeostasis of the brain as well as contribu...

health scope in iran: the way forward

The Way Forward Is the Way Back

“T viewer should see the object as I saw it, but with a lot of room for his own interpretation....The painting is like a very clear mirror which is barely visible but unmistakably there,” reflects Spanish painter Antonio López García (b. 1936) (1). “I am nostalgic for an art of our times in which a greater number of people can participate” (1). Part of a contemporary movement rooted in the trad...

A way forward for research on biomarkers for psychiatric disorders.

Webster’s New World Medical Dictionary provides a simple def inition of a biomarker as “a biologic feature that can be used to measure the presence or progress of disease or the effects of treatment.” In the research literature, the term “candidate biomarker” is often loosely applied to any biological feature associated with a disorder. The search for biomarkers for psychiatric disorders has a ...

Thalidomide--the way forward.