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Physicians now have the tools to determine the risk for certain hereditary brain disorders that cause severe mental retardation, according to an editorial in this month's issue of the Annals of Neurology.

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Sickle cell disease alters the brains of very young children long before strokes or learning disabilities announce brain damage, suggest the results of a study published in the March issue of the Annals of Neurology.

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In the most sophisticated study to date of the brain regions responsible for language recovery after stroke, researchers have identified one particular area as critical for the recovery of speech in most patients.

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A rash of epileptic seizures triggered by a television cartoon has pinpointed a new type of epilepsy, according to a report in this month's Annals of Neurology.

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In this month's Annals of Neurology, researchers report evidence of the bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae in all the multiple sclerosis patients in their study.

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Researchers have found another brain difference--in a part of the brain that processes vision--in people with dyslexia, according to a report in this month's Annals of Neurology.

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A new virus that has been passed from pigs to humans in Malaysia and Singapore produces a distinctive, and very dangerous, type of encephalitis in humans.

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Researchers have located a gene that causes hereditary fever-related seizures in the infants of one Utah family.

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A couple of Irish coffees for stroke victims in the emergency room? Beyond the joke lies the real possibility that a combination of alcohol and caffeine could prove more beneficial to stroke victims than acute care stroke drugs, according to a report from the American Neurological Association's annual meeting, October 10-13 in Seattle.

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The anti-sleepiness drug modafinil is as effective in the classic form of narcolepsy--that accompanied by sudden muscular weakness called cataplexy--as it is in the less common narcolepsy without cataplexy, according to a report from the American Neurological Association's annual meeting, October 10-13 in Seattle.