American Academy of Neurology

How well people with newly diagnosed epilepsy respond to their first drug treatment may signal the likelihood that they will continue to have more seizures, according to a study published in the May 9, 2012, online issue of Neurology®.

A researcher from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School is receiving $130,000 to conduct further research on memory dysfunction in epilepsy patients through the Susan S. Spencer Clinical Research Training Fellowship.

A Rochester, New York, researcher will receive a $263,622 grant to continue his study of injury to brain cell connections (synapses) in multiple sclerosis (MS) through the American Brain Foundation and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

The American Academy of Neurology Foundation is now the American Brain Foundation. The name change is part of an overall re-branding campaign as the organization repositions itself to become the world’s leader in raising money to cure brain disease

The American Academy of Neurology Foundation is pleased to announce the winning entries for its 2012 Neuro Film Festival, a contest to raise awareness about the need to support research into the prevention, treatment and cure of brain diseases.

Research shows that many treatments can help prevent migraine in certain people, yet few people with migraine who are candidates for preventive treatments actually use them, according to new guidelines issued by the American Academy of Neurology

People who received injections of the multiple sclerosis drug interferon beta-1a after their first signs of possible MS were less likely to progress to definite MS than people who switched to interferon beta-1a from placebo, according to new study.

A new study suggests there may be a starting point at which blows to the head or other head trauma suffered in combat sports start to affect memory and thinking abilities and can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in the brain. -AAN

Daily physical exercise may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, even in people over the age of 80, according to a study published in the April 18, 2012, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

WHAT: Brain Health Fair WHERE: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (MCCNO), Exhibit Hall B-1 WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 2012; 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. HOW: FREE Registration Now Open at www.BrainHealthFair.com