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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the most complex forms of congenital heart disease hypoplastic left heart syndrome HLHS affects an average of in every newborns with a mortality rate of up to percent during the first year of life The overall goal f our research is to develop safe and effective ways to improve short term and long term survival rates in babies born with HL ...

Abstract Summary Nectome will create technologies to enable whole brain nanoscale preservation and imaging a vital step towards a deep understanding of the mind and of the brainandapos s diseases Current brain processing technologies compromise between whole brain applicability or nanoscale resolution our technologies will achieve both si multaneously Similar to the way that next generation ...

7. Project Summary Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and is a growing problem as populations age. More than 25 million people are affected by dementia worldwide with most suffering from AD. AD is characterized by the presence of plaques of insoluble amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tangles of hyperphosphorylated aggregates of the cytoskeletal protein, tau. Thus far, most AD tre ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Homework, or between-session practice of skills learned during therapy, is one of the most integral, yet underutilized components of high-quality, evidence-based mental health treatments (EBTs) such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Many providers struggle to consistently develop, assign, and assess homework exercises with their patients, and many patients have diffic ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It is uniformly recognized that sedentariness - the sitting disease - is bad for the health of the nation. The solution to reversing sedentariness involves devising and disseminating real-world solutions to promote day-long physical activity and help people who want to, to lose weight and improve their blood glucose, lipids and blood pressure. The Gruve is ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neuron-cell culture is widely used for studies in basic research, drug discovery, and toxicity testing. Traditional random cultures allow limited access to subcellular compartments (axons, dendrites, synapses) due to extensive and haphazard growth of neurons. Our long-term goal is to provide robust, user-friendly, and cost effective culture platforms that can o ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Complete achromatopsia is an autosomal recessive inherited congenital disorder of retinal cone photoreceptors Patients with complete achromatopsia experience extreme light sensitivity and daytime blindness and best visual acuity under non bright light conditions is usually or worse and generally stable over time In addition to poor acuity hypersensit ...

Abstract. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects more than 5M Americans today, and is the most common cause of dementia in adults. While current medications slightly delay symptoms, no medications exist to cure or stop disease progression. A current focus at NIA is to identify novel drug targets, that address resilience to AD; also, there is an increasing perspective at NIA that Multi-target therapy m ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal of the proposed project is to evaluate the potential of HBI-002, a novel oral formulation of carbon monoxide (CO), as a neuroprotective agent in Parkinson’s disease (PD). A growing body of research suggests that low doses of CO - and the heme oxygenase (HO) enzymes that generate endogenous CO - protect against neuronal cell loss in PD, and epidemiologic studies have asso ...

Project Summary Traumatic brain injuryTBIcauses detrimental behavioral dysfunctions and brain neurodegeneration butunfortunatelythere currently is no effective pharmaceutical TBI treatmentThe underlying PhaseSTTR grant is to develop a new class of TBI drugs that inhibit the protease cathepsin BGenetically deleting the cathepsin B gene in mice results in substantial behavioral and pathology improve ...