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They may have wings, but fruit flies spend plenty of time on their feet. A Columbia University Medical Center team has developed a more accurate and sophisticated way to quantify such movement.

Columbia University scientists analysed 500 families containing two or more close relatives with epilepsy. Their findings could mean that genes exist that cause both epilepsy and migraine.

This study -- led by CUMC's Dr. Melodie Winawer -- is the first to confirm a shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and migraine.

Depression appears to be associated with mild cognitive impairment and an increased risk of dementia; José A. Luchsinger, MD, MPH was senior author of the study, published in the Archives of Neurology.