In search of breakthrough knowledge for treatment of advanced brain tumors using artificial intelligence
In Finland, 900 brain tumors are diagnosed annually, in both children and adults. A brain tumor is a serious disease, but it can be treated, and the patient can survive. Researchers have been studying brain tumors for several decades, but there exist many challenges in the investigation and treatment of various types of tumors. In […]
A National patient register plays a key role in treatment monitoring and treatment for genetic motor neuron disease
The disease-specific diagnostics for Genetic Motor Neuron diseases (MND) have advanced a lot recently. Researchers Mari Auranen (Ph.D.) and Emil Ylikallio (Ph.D.) from Helsinki University Hospital are working with a patient register to improve research and treatment for these diseases. For rare diseases, the register plays an important role in allowing researchers and doctors to […]
Why under 50-year-olds experience strokes – A study investigates the underlying reasons
Every year, 1.3 million people worldwide suffer a stroke before turning 50 years old. The younger the patient, the more unclear the reasons for the stroke are. The underlying cause is not always identifiable despite extensive diagnostic work-up. Since the 1980s, The the number of young ischemic stroke patients has been rising. Today, in over […]
Measuring brain functions on a bike | Research
The University of Jyväskylä has a solid reputation in, among other fields, education and physical education research. Founded at the University in 2011, the Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) combines different scientific disciplines under a neuroscientific research umbrella. When CIBR’s Director and University Researcher Tiina Parviainen arrived in Jyväskylä in late 2011, one […]
AlzTrans challenges research groups with new kinds of cooperation | Alzheimer’s disease
The underlying objective of the AlzTrans project is to identify changes at cell level that are relevant to the inception and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. In autumn of 2018, at the invitation of Neurocenter Finland, the University of Eastern Finland, Turku PET Centre, and the University of Helsinki launched the AlzTrans project, which is funded […]
Researcher, tailor, father, foodstuff chemist … researchers wear many hats | EEG cap
Sampsa Vanhatalo, leading researcher of the BABA Center and Professor in Clinical Neurophysiology, is a man of many talents. By the early 2000s, it had become necessary to obtain better measurement results of the cerebral functions of both premature infants and full-term babies. This led Vanhatalo to develop caps to record electric brain activity (EEG) […]