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Research on a Potential Biomarker for Hereditary Neurological Disease

In her doctoral thesis, Elīna Kalniņa, a doctoral student at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), investigated Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, the most common of the rare neurological disorders, and neurofilaments (more precisely, neurofilament light chains) as possible biomarkers for predicting disease severity.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth is a hereditary polyneuropathy. The most characteristic symptoms that patients with this disease get the sensory disturbances, muscle weakness in the arms and legs, and foot deformities.

Research on Adolescent Sleep Patterns

Insufficient sleep is a significant indicator of general health in adolescents and is recognised as a growing public health problem globally, a field that is often underestimated and insufficiently studied. It is worrisome that over the last 100 years, the average sleep duration of adolescents has decreased by an average of 70 minutes.

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