Brain changes in women during puberty, pregnancy and manopauseOver the course of life, the female brain can undergo three major hormonal transitions: puberty, pregnancy, and menopause. For the first time, researchers from the Pregnancy Brain Lab at Amsterdam UMC investigated whether these three transitions leave similar or distinct traces in the brain, using identical methods. Their study was published today in Nature.
Colin Groot receives ERC Starting Grant for research on biomarkers in dementiaResearcher Colin Groot of Alzheimer Center Amsterdam and the department of Neurology at Amsterdam UMC has been awarded an ERC starting grant of 2,5 million euro. With this grant he will investigate how reliable biomarkers can be for detecting and tracking brain diseases that cause dementia.
Breakthrough trial offers first hope for children with Vanishing White Matter diseaseA team of researchers from the Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center at Amsterdam UMC, led by Prof. Marjo van der Knaap, has published the first clinical evidence that the drug guanabenz may alter the course of vanishing white matter disease (VWM), a devastating childhood neurodegenerative disorder for which no effective treatment previously existed. The findings from the neuroscientists of this phase 1/2 trial have now been published in The Lancet Neurology.
