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Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, co-sponsors a free, public Neuroscience symposium on Monday, 20 October, in Paris to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its prestigious journal, Neuron. "The Impact of Neuroscience on Society" will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. inside the city's Collège de France. Cell Press offers this meeting in conjunction with Fondation IPSEN, based in Paris, and Massachusetts General hospital, of Boston, Mass., USA.

The University of Queensland has received $31 million in National health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grants, confirming its position as the state's top research institution. UQ secured 61 project grants representing more than 60 percent of the $50 million awarded throughout Queensland. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor David Siddle congratulated the diverse group of UQ researchers who shared in the results.

Genzyme Corporation (Nasdaq: GENZ) today announced that its U.S. Biologic License Application (BLA) for Myozyme® (alglucosidase alfa) produced at the 2000 L bioreactor scale will be discussed this Tuesday, October 21st, at a public meeting of the FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Anesthesiologist researchers, armed with the determination that one case of anesthesia awareness is one case too many, did not find that brain wave monitors are superior to traditional, readily available anesthesia monitoring methods for preventing long - term psychological symptoms related to the experience of anesthesia awareness.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (MedPage Today) -- Regular exercise may help prevent stroke and its consequences for older adults, researchers here found.

MILAN (MedPage Today) -- More education and mentally challenging employment appear to protect against the cognitive impairment of Alzheimer's disease, researchers here said.

Amyloid precursor protein (APP), whose cleavage product, amyloid-b (Ab), builds up into fibrous plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients, jumps from one specialized membrane microdomain to another to be cleaved, report Sakurai et al. Eventhough there is no definitive evidence that Ab plaques are the direct cause of Alzheimer's disease, there is much circumstantial evidence to support this. And working on this hypothesis, researchers are investigating just how the plaques form and what might be done to stop or reverse their formation........

BALTIMORE (MedPage Today) -- For trauma patients, race and insurance status work independently to worsen mortality risks, researchers found in a registry study.