According to AARP, the annual cost of unpaid elder caregiving—a responsibility that falls primarily to family members—totals about $450 billion. Until Case Western Reserve University nurse researchers began their study, however, the mental, physical and

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to create three-dimensional maps of the stress that circulating blood places on the developing heart in an animal model—a key to understanding triggers of

New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler’s story—one that, upon a second look, offers clues it was false. When the brain fires up

Magnesium sulfate is given to many pregnant women to treat preterm labor and preeclampsia, and it was recently shown to prevent cerebral palsy. However, little is known about how it works. But researchers at

A promising study out in the Journal of Neurosciences showed that in a mouse model of Rett syndrome, researchers were able to reverse abnormalities in brain activity and improve neurological function by treating the

Scientists can’t travel deep space the way Columbus sailed and charted the New World or Lewis and Clark mapped the west. But researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two partnering institutions have found

A new study published in a special issue of Substance Abuse finds that recovering alcoholics who help others in 12-step programs have better outcomes in terms of their time sober, consideration for others and

Ben W. Strowbridge, professor of neurosciences and physiology/biophysics and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth-year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, have discovered how to store

Some of the body’s own genetic material, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), can be packaged and then unleashed as a precise and persistent technology to guide cell behavior, researchers at Case Western Reserve